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Ebury, one of the most advanced server-side malware campaigns, has been active for 15 years but its use by threat actors is still growing, according to cybersecurity firm ESET.

A new report published on May 14 by ESET Research showed that operators of the Ebury malware and botnet were more active than ever in 2023.

Over the years, Ebury has been deployed as a backdoor to compromise almost 400,000 Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD servers. More than 100,000 were still compromised as of late 2023.

Long known to deploy spam, web traffic redirections and credential stealing, the Ebury group recently added credit card compromise and cryptocurrency theft in its techniques, tactics and procedures (TTPs).

What is the Ebury Botnet?

Ebury is a malicious group that has been active since…

Ebury, one of the most advanced server-side malware campaigns, has been active for 15 years but its use by threat actors is still growing, according to cybersecurity firm ESET.

A new report published on May 14 by ESET Research showed that operators of the Ebury malware and botnet were more active than ever in 2023.

Over the years, Ebury has been deployed as a backdoor to compromise almost 400,000 Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD servers. More than 100,000 were still compromised as of late 2023.

Long known to deploy spam, web traffic redirections and credential stealing, the Ebury group recently added credit card compromise and cryptocurrency theft in its techniques, tactics and procedures (TTPs).

What is the Ebury Botnet?

Ebury is a malicious group that has been active since…

Claims that a US Air Force-trained artificial intelligence (AI) powered drone “attacked” its human operators and communication towers when it was supposed to target enemy weapons have been shared widely on social media. 

One tweet, shared hundreds of times, says: “The Air Force trained an AI drone to destroy SAM [surface-to-air-missile] sites.

“Human operators sometimes told the drone to stop.

“The AI then started attacking the human operators.

“So then it was trained to not attack humans.

“It started attacking comm towers so humans couldn’t tell it to stop.”

This text is accompanied by a screenshot, which gives a further description of how in a simulation the trained AI drone had “killed the operator because that person was keeping it from…