News & Insights

Our first status update on the critical initial milestone in Shadowserver's urgent 2020 funding challenge. Great progress from our awesome community, with particular thanks to philanthropist Craig Newmark, but more help still needed to fully secure our data center operations in 2020. Join with us to continue protecting victims of cybercrime and help protect the Internet.

Shadowserver has unexpectedly lost the financial support of our largest sponsor. We need to transition the impacted operations staff and move our data center by May 26th 2020. This is an extremely aggressive timeline. We urgently appeal to our constituents and the community to rally together, help save Shadowserver and help secure the Internet. This is the initial announcement and the index page to more detailed supporting content.

Shadowserver has unexpectedly lost the financial support of our largest sponsor. We need to transition the impacted operations staff and move our data center by May 26th 2020. This is an extremely aggressive timeline. We urgently appeal to our constituents and the community to rally together, help save Shadowserver and help secure the Internet. This is the shorter summary of the situation.

Shadowserver has unexpectedly lost the financial support of our largest sponsor. We need to transition the impacted operations staff and move our data center by May 26th 2020. This is an extremely aggressive timeline. We urgently appeal to our constituents and the community to rally together, help save Shadowserver and help secure the Internet. Read the full story here.

Shadowserver has unexpectedly lost the financial support of our largest sponsor. We need to transition the impacted operations staff and move our data center by May 26th 2020. This is an extremely aggressive timeline. We urgently appeal to our constituents and the community to rally together, help save Shadowserver and help secure the Internet. Learn Shadowserver's background and how we evolved to become what we are today.

Shadowserver has unexpectedly lost the financial support of our largest sponsor. We need to transition the impacted operations staff and move our data center by May 26th 2020. This is an extremely aggressive timeline. We urgently appeal to our constituents and the community to rally together, help save Shadowserver and help secure the Internet. Learn more about how can you help Shadowserver and the community.

Private sector partners Microsoft and Bitsight announced their disruption of the Necurs botnet on March 10th 2020. Shadowserver supported the operation, through the use of our Registrar of Last Resort (RoLR) for helping to deal with the millions of potential DGA C2 domains involved, and by making available our victim remediation reporting channels. In this blog post we provide our take on some of the more interesting aspects of this operation, analyze the sinkholed Necurs victim populations and compared their observed demographics with data from the previous decade of spambot takedowns.

New MQTT IPv4 scans are now carried out daily as part of our efforts to expand our capability to enable the mapping of exposed IoT devices on the Internet. A new report - Open MQTT - is now shared in our free daily victim remediation reports to 107 National CSIRTs and 4600+ network owners. In particular, the report identifies accessible MQTT broker service that enable anonymous access. The work is being carried out as part of the EU CEF VARIoT (Vulnerability and Attack Repository for IoT) project.

A joint operation by International Law Enforcement Agencies today arrested the alleged administrator of the DarkScandals child sexual exploitation website sites and protected victims by seizing the sites. The Shadowsever Foundation was happy to play a small role in the successful operation by providing technical support to our LE partners.

Celebrating a particularly significant long term milestone - our 107th National CERT/CSIRT recently signed up for Shadowserver's free daily networking reporting service, which takes us to 136 countries and over 90% of the IPv4 Internet by IP space/ASN. This has finally changed our internal CERT reporting coverage map of Europe entirely green.