DESCRIPTION LAST UPDATED: 2024-06-11
DEFAULT SEVERITY LEVEL: CRITICAL
The first Special Report contained information about IP addresses and computer systems that are believed to have been infected with SystemBC malware during the period 2023-02-14 to 2024-05-28. It is a result of the international Law Enforcement action called Operation Endgame which was announced on May 30th 2024.
The second Special report run on 2024-06-11 covered the period 2024-05-16 to 2024-05-29.
Shadowserver Special Reports are unlike all of our other standard free daily network reports. They do not cover a specific daily 24-hour time period.
Instead, we send out Special Reports in situations where we are able to share one-time, high value datasets that we feel should be reported responsibly for maximum public benefit. Sometimes there are incidents when it would be useful to be able to notify potential victims about events or breaches that may have impacted them outside of the previous 24-hour period, when it may take a number of days for incident responders to conduct forensic investigations and analyzed data becomes available for sharing with potential victims. Although the events included in these Special Reports will fall outside of our usual 24-hour daily reporting window, we believe that there would still be significant benefit to our constituents in receiving and, hopefully, acting on the retrospective data.
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Note that the data shared across special reports may differ on a case by case basis, hence the report formats for individual Special Reports may be different.
The data in this SystemBC Historical Bot Infections Special Report was provided to Shadowserver by the Operation Endgame Law Enforcement partners to disseminate to National CERTs/CSIRTs and network owners globally, to maximize remediation efforts.
Note that exact timestamps were not available for individual events, so the timestamp field is set to “2024-05-28 00:00:00”. Since only the first and last seen time for an infection was recorded in the SystemBC database, the first and last seen dates for an infected victim system represent a date range when an infection was likely active. However, there could have been multiple infections during that time period for shorter individual time periods (and therefore periods without an active infection).
This special report has severity level CRITICAL set on all events. Severity levels are described here.
Filename prefix: 2024-05-31-special and 2024-06-11-special. Note: this is accessible in the API using 2024-05-31 and 2024-06-11 as the search date.