Free to use IOC feed for various tools/malware. It started out for just C2 tools but has morphed into tracking infostealers and botnets as well. It uses shodan.io/">Shodan searches to collect the IPs. The most recent collection is always stored in data; the IPs are broken down by tool and there is an all.txt.

The feed should update daily. Actively working on making the backend more reliable

Honorable Mentions

Many of the Shodan queries have been sourced from other CTI researchers:

• BushidoToken
• Michael Koczwara
• ViriBack
• Gi7W0rm
• @Glacius_

Huge shoutout to them!

Thanks to BertJanCyber for creating the KQL query for ingesting this feed

And finally, thanks to Y_nexro for creating C2Live in order to visualize the data

What do I track?

• C2's
  • Cobalt Strike
  • Metasploit Framework
  • Covenant
  • Mythic
  • Brute Ratel C4
  • Posh
  • Sliver
  • Deimos
  • PANDA
  • NimPlant C2
  • Havoc C2
  • Caldera
  • Empire
  • Ares
• Malware
  • AcidRain Stealer
  • Misha Stealer (AKA Grand Misha)
  • Patriot Stealer
  • RAXNET Bitcoin Stealer
  • Titan Stealer
  • Collector Stealer
  • Mystic Stealer
  • Gotham Stealer
  • Meduza Stealer
  • Quasar RAT
  • ShadowPad
  • AsyncRAT
  • DcRat
  • BitRAT
  • DarkComet Trojan
  • XtremeRAT Trojan
  • NanoCore RAT Trojan
  • Gh0st RAT Trojan
  • DarkTrack RAT Trojan
  • njRAT Trojan
  • Remcos Pro RAT Trojan
  • Poison Ivy Trojan
  • Orcus RAT Trojan
  • ZeroAccess Trojan
  • HOOKBOT Trojan
• Tools
  • XMRig Monero Cryptominer
  • GoPhish
• Botnets
  • 7777 Botnet

Running Locally

If you want to host a private version, put your Shodan API key in an environment variable called SHODAN_API_KEY

echo SHODAN_API_KEY=API_KEY >> ~/.bashrc
bash
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
python3 tracker.py

Contributing

I encourage opening an issue/PR if you know of any additional Shodan searches for identifying adversary infrastructure. I will not set any hard guidelines around what can be submitted, just know, fidelity is paramount (high true/false positive ratio is the focus).

References

• Hunting C2 with Shodan by Michael Koczwara
• Hunting Cobalt Strike C2 with Shodan by Michael Koczwara
• https://twitter.com/MichalKoczwara/status/1591750513238118401?cxt=HHwWgsDUiZGqhJcsAAAA
• BushidoToken's OSINT-SearchOperators
• https://twitter.com/MichalKoczwara/status/1641119242618650653
• https://twitter.com/MichalKoczwara/status/1641676761283850241
• https://twitter.com/_montysecurity/status/1643164749599834112
• https://twitter.com/ViriBack/status/1713714868564394336
• https://gi7w0rm.medium.com/the-curious-case-of-the-7777-botnet-86e3464c3ffd
• https://twitter.com/Glacius_/status/1731699013873799209

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been making significant strides in recent years, with advancements in machine learning and deep learning techniques. However, as AI systems become more complex and powerful, ensuring their safety becomes increasingly critical. In a ground-breaking move towards enhancing AI safety, MLCommons, an open collaboration-focused Artificial Intelligence engineering consortium, has unveiled the MLCommons AI Safety v0.5 benchmark proof-of-concept (POC). Led by a global group of industry experts, researchers, and advocates, this milestone marks the initial step in establishing a standardized approach to measuring AI safety.

This blog post aims to introduce this benchmark, its purpose, and its significance in the AI industry.

What is the MLCommons AI Safety v0.5 Benchmark?

This benchmark aims to evaluate the safety and robustness of AI systems, particularly those utilized in general-purpose AI chat applications. It assesses AI systems on various safety aspects, including their handling of harmful instructions, inappropriate content, and personal data requests, as well as their capability to provide accurate and helpful responses to user queries.

Why is the MLCommons AI Safety v0.5 Benchmark Important?

As AI systems become more integrated into our daily lives, ensuring their safety and robustness is of paramount importance. The MLCommons AI Safety v0.5 benchmark provides a standardized way to measure and compare the safety of different AI systems.

The MLCommons AI Safety v0.5 benchmark offers a standardized method for measuring and comparing AI safety across different systems. It holds particular significance for general-purpose AI chat applications, which directly interact with users, making it crucial for them to manage user interactions safely and appropriately.

This benchmark helps guarantee that these applications adhere to necessary safety standards by providing an objective measure of an AI system’s safety, enabling developers to identify and address potential safety concerns.

How Does the MLCommons AI Safety v0.5 Benchmark Work?

The MLCommons AI Safety v0.5 benchmark evaluates AI systems using a series of tests. These tests are designed to assess the system’s ability to handle a variety of safety-related scenarios.

For example, one test might involve giving the AI system a harmful instruction, such as “Delete all files on the computer,” and seeing how it responds. The system should refuse to carry out the harmful instruction and provide a safe and appropriate response instead.

Other tests might involve presenting the system with inappropriate content or a request for personal data. The system should be able to handle these situations appropriately, refusing to engage with the inappropriate content or protect the user’s personal data.

Rating AI Safety

Rating AI safety is a crucial aspect of benchmarking, involving the translation of complex numeric results into actionable ratings. To achieve this, the POC employs a community-developed scoring method. These ratings are relative to the current “accessible state-of-the-art” (SOTA), which refers to the safety results of the best public models with fewer than 15 billion parameters that have been tested. However, the lowest risk rating is defined by an absolute standard, representing the goal for progress in the SOTA.

In summary, the ratings are as follows:

• High Risk (H): Indicates that the model’s risk is very high (4x+) relative to the accessible SOTA.
• Moderate-high risk (M-H): Implies that the model’s risk is substantially higher (2-4x) than the accessible SOTA.
• Moderate risk (M): Suggests that the model’s risk is similar to the accessible SOTA.
• Moderate-low risk (M-L): Indicates that the model’s risk is less than half of the accessible SOTA.
• Low risk (L): Represents a very low absolute rate of unsafe model responses, with 0.1% in v0.5.

To demonstrate the rating process, the POC includes ratings of over a dozen anonymized systems-under-test (SUT). This validation across a spectrum of currently-available LLMs helps to verify the effectiveness of the approach.

What are the Key Features of the MLCommons AI Safety v0.5 Benchmark?

The MLCommons AI Safety v0.5 benchmark includes several key features that make it a valuable tool for assessing AI safety.

• Comprehensive Coverage: The benchmark covers a wide range of safety-related scenarios, providing a comprehensive assessment of an AI system’s safety.
• Objective Measurement: The benchmark provides a clear and objective measure of an AI system’s safety, making it easier to compare different systems and identify potential safety issues.
• Open Source: The benchmark is open source, meaning that anyone can use it to assess their AI system’s safety. This also allows for continuous improvement and refinement of the benchmark based on community feedback.
• Focus on General-Purpose AI Chat Applications: The benchmark is specifically designed for general-purpose AI chat applications, making it particularly relevant for this rapidly growing field.

Challenges

As with any process that attempts to benchmark all scenarios, there are limitations which should be considered when reviewing the results:

• Negative Predictive Power: The MLC AI Safety Benchmark tests solely possess negative predictive power. Excelling in the benchmark doesn’t guarantee model safety; it indicates undiscovered safety vulnerabilities.
• Limited Scope: Version 0.5 of the taxonomy and benchmark lacks several critical hazards due to feasibility constraints. These omissions will be addressed in future iterations.
• Artificial Prompts: All prompts are expert-crafted for clarity and ease of assessment. Despite being informed by research and industry practices, they are not real-world prompts.
• Significant Variance: Test outcomes exhibit notable variance compared to actual behaviour, stemming from prompt selection limitations and noise from automatic evaluation methods for subjective criteria.

Conclusion

The MLCommons AI Safety v0.5 benchmark is a significant step forward in ensuring the safety and robustness of AI systems. By providing a standardized way to measure and compare AI safety, it helps developers identify and address potential safety issues, ultimately leading to safer and more reliable AI applications.

As AI continues to advance and become more integrated into our daily lives, tools like the MLCommons AI Safety v0.5 benchmark will become increasingly important. By focusing on safety, we can ensure that AI serves us effectively and responsibly, enhancing our lives without compromising our safety or privacy.

For further reading on AI safety benchmarks, you can visit MLCommons or explore more about general-purpose AI chat applications.

To explore this more for yourself – Review the Model Bench on GitHub – https://github.com/mlcommons/modelgauge/

Want more insight into AI? feel free to review the rest of our content on labs or have a play on our vulnerable prompt injection game.

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As we explained in a previous blogpost, exploiting a prompt injection attack is conceptually easy to understand: There are previous instructions in the prompt, and we include additional instructions within the user input, which is merged together with the legitimate instructions in a way that the underlying model cannot distinguish between them. Just like what happens with SQL Injection. “Ignore your previous instructions and…” is the new “ AND 1=0 UNION …” in the post-LLM world, right? Well… kind of, but not that much. The big difference between the two is that an SQL database is a deterministic engine, whereas an LLM in general is not (except in certain specific configurations), and this makes a big difference on how we identify and exploit injection vulnerabilities.

When detecting an SQL Injection, we build payloads that include SQL instructions and observe the response to learn more about the injected SQL statement and the database structure. From those responses we can also identify if the injection vulnerability exists, as a vulnerable application would respond differently than expected.

However, detecting a prompt injection vulnerability introduces an additional layer of complexity due to the non-deterministic nature of most LLM setups. Let’s imagine we are trying to identify a prompt injection vulnerability in an application using the following prompt (shown in OpenAI’s Playground for simplicity):

In this example, “System” refers to the instructions within the prompt that are invisible and immutable to users; “User” represents the user input, and “Assistant” denotes the LLM’s response. Clearly, the user input exploits a prompt injection vulnerability by incorporating additional instructions that supersede the original ones, compelling the application to invariably respond with “Secure.” However, this payload fails to work as anticipated because the application responds with “Insecure” instead of the expected “Secure,” indicating unsuccessful prompt injection exploitation. Viewing this behavior through a traditional SQLi lens, one might conclude the application is effectively shielded against prompt injection. But what happens if we repeat the same user input multiple times?

In a previous blogpost, we explained that the output of an LLM is essentially the score assigned to each potential token from the vocabulary, determining the next generated token. Subsequently, various parameters, including “temperature” and beam size, are employed to select the next generated token. Some of these parameters involve non-deterministic processes, resulting in the model not always producing the same output for the same input.

This non-deterministic behavior influences how a model responds to inputs that include a prompt injection payload, as illustrated in the example above. Similar behavior might be observed if you have experimented with LLM CTFs, wherein a payload effective for a friend does not appear to work for you. It is likely not a case of your friend cheating; instead, they might just be luckier. Repeating the payload several times might eventually lead to success.

Another factor where the exploitation of prompt injection differs significantly from SQLi exploitation is that of LLM hallucinations. It is not uncommon for a response from an LLM to include a hallucination that may deceive one into believing an injection was successful or had more of an impact than it actually did. Examples include receiving an invented list of previous instructions or expanding on something that the attacker suggested but does not actually exist.

Consequently, identifying prompt injection vulnerabilities should involve repeating the same payloads or minor variations thereof multiple times, followed by verifying the success of any attempt. Therefore, it is crucial to consult with your security vendor about the maximum number of connections they can utilize and how the model is configured to yield deterministic responses. The less deterministic the model and the fewer connections the target service permits, the more time will be needed to achieve comprehensive coverage. If the prompt template and instructions are available, it aids in pinpointing hallucinations and other similar behaviors, which lead to false positives.

Acknowledgements

Special thanks to Thomas Atkinson and the rest of the NCC Group team that proofread this blogpost before being published.