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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. Image: SentinelOne.com.

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Worldwide law enforcement action takes down major DDoS booter services

Malwarebytes

Criminals making use of booter services which execute Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks to take down websites will have to try a little bit harder today: A major international operation has taken no fewer than 48 of the most popular booter services offline. The FBI has seized this website for operating as a DDoS-for-hire service.

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Taiwan Government websites suffered DDoS attacks during the Nancy Pelosi visit

Security Affairs

Major Taiwan government websites were temporarily forced offline by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks attacks during the visit to Taipei of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The post Taiwan Government websites suffered DDoS attacks during the Nancy Pelosi visit appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon

Krebs on Security

On Sunday, 8chan and a host of other sites related to QAnon conspiracy theories were briefly knocked offline after Guilmette called 8chan’s anti-DDoS provider and convinced them to stop protecting the site from crippling online attacks (8Chan is now protected by an anti-DDoS provider in St. Petersburg, Russia).

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

In 2007, Salomon collected more than $3,000 from botmasters affiliated with competing spam affiliate programs that wanted to see Spamhaus suffer, and the money was used to fund a week-long distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Spamhaus and its online infrastructure. ” Likewise, the bulletproof domain service icamis[.]ws

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Security Vulnerabilities in Dell Laptops

CyberSecurity Insiders

Report released by the firm says that the discovered flaw is actually an amalgamation of 5 different flaws that are present on the Dell BIOS Utility Driver called DBUtil and has been in place since 2009.

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

. “This class of cybercrime activity threat may evade detection because it is less likely than a crypto-miner to be noticed by the owner, and it is unlikely to warrant the volume of abuse complaints that internet-wide brute-forcing and DDoS-based botnets typically draw,” Lumen’s Black Lotus researchers wrote.

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