Web Hacking Service ‘Araneida’ Tied to Turkish IT Firm
Summary: Silent Push researchers found that a cloud service called Araneida resells a cracked version of Acunetix, a commercial web vulnerability scanner made by Texas-based Invicti Security, to paying customers for offensive reconnaissance and data scraping. Araneida's Telegram channel, with nearly 500 subscribers, claimed the service was used to take over more than 30,000 websites in six months, and KrebsOnSecurity traced the operation to an Ankara-based developer named Altuğ Şara linked to Turkish IT firm Bilitro Yazilim.
What's compelling: A cracked trial license of a legitimate scanner, bundled with a rotating proxy pool, let paying criminals compromise 30,000 websites in six months while their scans appeared to come from random addresses; the same cracked tool has been cited in HHS reporting on APT41 use.
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