Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

In 2010, the Open SSL project addressed three vulnerabilities, including two DDoS issues rated high severity. Katz and Joel Luellwitz from Trustwave. The issue affects servers using OpenSSL 1.0.2 which are vulnerable to SSL version rollback attacks. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2020

Threat actors used the consoles to deliver malware and ransomware through an IoT botnet that was also used to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. “One particular IP was associated with dozens of activities related to the distribution of malware, phishing emails, ransomware, and DDoS attacks.”

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2021

For example, April saw the active distribution of a new DDoS botnet called Simps — the name under which it introduced itself to owners of infected devices. The malware creators promoted their brainchild on a specially set-up YouTube channel and Discord server, where they discussed DDoS attacks.

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2019

The alleged Anonymous member, Martin Gottesfeld, was accused of launching DDoS attacks against the two US healthcare organizations in 2014, the Boston Children’s Hospital and the Wayside Youth and Family Support Network. ” continues IBM.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 28, 2021

BlackEnergy is a Trojan capable of distributed denial of service (DDoS), cyber espionage and information destruction attacks. Their tactics went beyond the typical DDoS attack. A new vulnerability, CVE-2019-19279 , has emerged that also allows for a DDoS attack.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

As cloud computing upends traditional perimeter models of cybersecurity, new cloud security models have emerged, and CWPP was one of the first to appear back in 2010. Attackers can take advantage of the scalability of cloud settings to launch more powerful, complicated DDoS operations that overburden cloud systems.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2018

Ramnit is one of the most popular banking malware families in existence today, it was first spotted in 2010 as a worm, in 2011, its authors improved it starting from the leaked Zeus source code turning the malware into a banking Trojan. DDoS attacks, ransomware-based campaigns, cryptocurrency mining campaigns).

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Bogachev is accused of running the Gameover Zeus botnet , a massive crime machine of 500,000 to 1 million infected PCs that was used for large DDoS attacks and for spreading Cryptolocker — a peer-to-peer ransomware threat that was years ahead of its time. “The Americans were unhappy, and a little surprised.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Much of my reporting on Vrublevsky’s cybercrime empire came from several years worth of internal ChronoPay emails and documents that were leaked online in 2010 and 2011. According to leaked ChronoPay emails from 2010, this domain was registered and paid for by ChronoPay. Pavel Vrublevsky’s former Facebook profile photo.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

Wazawaka spent his early days on Exploit and other forums selling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that could knock websites offline for about USD $80 a day. was used to register three domains between 2008 and 2010: ddosis.ru , best-stalker.com , and cs-arena.org. “Come, rob, and get dough!

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2023

Gartner played a big role in the development of cloud security terminology, coining the term “Cloud Workload Protection Platform” in 2010 to describe a tool used for safeguarding virtual machines and containers. Securing all those new cloud environments and connections became a job for cybersecurity companies.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

Founded in 2010 by veteran SaaS and DevOps industry leaders, Datadog specializes in optimizing the service-oriented architecture, helping organizations monitor user journeys and explore service relationships. On Gartner Peer Insights, Kentik holds an average score of 4.8 / 5 stars with 94 reviews for the Network Performance Monitoring market.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Security services and tools include anti-DDoS , SOCaaS , web application firewalls (WAF), data encryption , and more. For customers looking to bundle, Huawei offers vulnerability scanning , WAFs, and advanced DDoS protection. Through acquisitions in the 2000s, SAP launched their database platform, HANA, in 2010.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Going Mobile and Going Global: 2001-2010. In July 2001, the Code Red Worm attempted to subject the entire Internet to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Eventually, the infected computers were all directed to attempt a DDoS specifically on whitehouse.gov, though the White House managed to sidestep the assault.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

Anonymous used a variety of techniques, including Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, to take down websites and disrupt online services. The most famous example of this was the Stuxnet worm , which was discovered in 2010 and was believed to have been created by the US and Israeli governments to sabotage Iran's nuclear program.

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The Falcon's View

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

If you've never been to RSA, or if you only started attending in the last couple years, then it's really hard to describe to you how dramatic the change has been since ~2010 when the numbers started growing like this (to be fair, yoy growth from 2016 to 2017 wasn't all that huge). good grief. let's drill into my key highlights. Size Matters.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In 2013, Vrublevsky was convicted of hiring his most-trusted spammer and malware writer to launch a crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against one of his company’s chief competitors.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

This includes Active Directory for identity and access management, Windows Defender, Azure cloud security services such as Security Center, Key Vault, Azure DDoS Protection, Azure Information Protection and Application Gateway for protecting Web applications. Founded: 2010. Imperva (WAF, database security, threat intelligence, DDoS ).

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

We believe that Iran started heavily investing in its cyber operations program following the discovery of Stuxnet in 2010, and we can track the evolution from there. The DDoS nation-state hackers. Their cyber methods include such things as malware insertions, such as MUD-ing, wiper attacks, like the Shamoon virus.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

2000 — Mafiaboy — 15-year-old Michael Calce, aka MafiaBoy, a Canadian high school student, unleashes a DDoS attack on several high-profile commercial websites including Amazon, CNN, eBay and Yahoo! The DDoS attack is part of a political activist movement against the church called “Project Chanology.” billion dollars in damages.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

That’s a minor coup for a company launched in 2010 with the goal of helping e-commerce sites validate the identities of customers for the purposes of granting discounts for veterans, teachers, students, nurses and first responders. came under a series of denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks aimed at knocking the service offline.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2022

Though APTs were regularly seen from then on inside the industry, the term didn’t gain public consciousness until an attack on Google servers in 2010 , the fault of which was assigned to Chinese APTs. From then on, APT became a heavily used, marketable term. They don’t bother with waiting around like many other APTs do.

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