SpeakUp Backdoor

Security researchers spotted a new campaign that is attempting to introduce a backdoor Trojan into targeted Linux devices. This backdoor Trojan that is called the SpeakUp Backdoor is configured to attack six Linux dealers through known vulnerabilities all around the world. The SpeakUp Backdoor was named after one of its Command & Control names. The main targets of the SpeakUp Backdoor are servers located in Latin America and East Asia and also targets machines hosted by the AWS Amazon Web Services). The SpeakUp Backdoor can collect the victims' IDs, the current version of the installed script and all the information it can collect about the infected computer and sends it to its Command and Control server.

The SpeakUp Backdoor also will try to login to Amin panels by using brute-force on a previous usernames and passwords list, check if certain ports are available, analyze the network's domain and attempt to exploit vulnerabilities in the RCE (Remote Code Execution) on the infected servers. Security researchers believe that the SpeakUp Backdoor is not fully developed and additional threatening features may be added to it shortly. The dangers lurking inside the Web are many and will not stop to been developed any time soon so that what we can do is to protect our machines with efficient security tools and hope the threats do not find their ways to our machines.