eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for October 2023 covers a total of 103 CVEs, including three zero-day vulnerabilities affecting WordPad, Skype and the HTTP/2 “ Rapid Reset ” DDoS vulnerability. For Server 2012/2012 R2 it is highly recommended to subscribe to ESU or migrate to a newer server edition.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2020

The botnet borrows the code from Tsunami and Gafgyt botnets, it expanded the list of targeted devices and added new distributed denial of service (DDoS) capabilities. In the first week of May, the experts also spotted a Mirai variant using the same exploit, but this samples don’t contain any DDoS capabilities.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2024

An attacker can exploit the flaw to bypass protections for a previous vulnerability, CVE-2012-1823, using specific character sequences. Akamai researchers also observed threat actors behind the DDoS botnet Muhstik exploiting this vulnerability. The bot also connects to the command and control domain p.findmeatthe[.]top,

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The seizure notice appearing on the homepage this week of more than a dozen popular “booter” or “stresser” DDoS-for-hire Web sites. Investigators say Bukoski’s booter service was among the longest running services targeted by the FBI, operating since at least 2012. bullstresser[.]net. critical-boot[.]com.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

KrebsOnSecurity began researching Icamis’s real-life identity in 2012, but failed to revisit any of that research until recently. For starters, they frequently changed the status on their instant messenger clients at different times. Also, they each privately discussed with others having attended different universities.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Below is the list of vulnerabilities exploited by V3G4: CVE-2012-4869 : FreePBX Elastix Remote Command Execution Vulnerability Gitorious Remote Command Execution Vulnerability CVE-2014-9727 : FRITZ!Box ” concludes the report. “Therefore, it is highly recommended that patches and updates are applied when possible.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The Adwind RAT was first discovered early 2012, the experts dubbed it Frutas RAT and later it was identified with other names, Unrecom RAT (February 2014), AlienSpy (October 2014), and recently JSocket RAT (June 2015). DDoS attacks, brute-forcing attacks).

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

distributed Denial of service attacks (DDoS). Mirai represents a turning point for DDoS attacks: IoT botnets are the new norm. OVH DDoS attack. At that time, It was propelled in the spotlight when it was used to carry massive DDoS attacks against. For more information on DDoS techniques, read. Krebs on Security.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 19, 2021

For example, alerts produced by one firewall under a DDoS attack can easily dwarf the number of alerts generated from a single exploit that hits hundreds of organizations. Simply looking at the raw numbers in this case would give the false impression that DDoS attacks have a far greater impact across the base of organizations.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

Pin was active on Opensc around March 2012, and authored 13 posts that mostly concerned data encryption issues, or how to fix bugs in code. “Installing SpyEYE, ZeuS, any DDoS and spam admin panels,” NeroWolfe wrote. Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 finds that pin@darktower.ru “P.S.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

The first version spotted by TrendMicro includes a DDoS script that could be used by botmaster to set-up DDoS for-hire service offered on the dark web. Based on our findings, there are some similarities in both techniques and architectures with another cybercrime group, which appeared in the wild around 2012, most probably Romanian.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2019

Necurs botnet is currently the second largest spam botnet , it has been active since at least 2012 and was involved in massive campaigns spreading malware such as the Locky ransomware , the Scarab ransomware , and the Dridex banking Trojan.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The DDoS nation-state hackers. These men perpetrated distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in a coordinated effort to cause disruption in American financial institutions. Their cyber methods include such things as malware insertions, such as MUD-ing, wiper attacks, like the Shamoon virus. Department of the Treasury.

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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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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. The DBSS database audit supports eight database types including MySQL, Oracle, and SQL Server.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 26, 2022

The Cisco Secure portfolio is massive, including next-generation firewalls (NGFW), MFA, vulnerability management, and DDoS protection. Started in 2012, Vectra already stands out among the NDR marketplace, offering managed detection and response (MDR) and its threat detection and response platform.

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Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

Hundreds of millions of user passwords left exposed to Facebook employees: News recently broke that Facebook left the passwords of between 200 million and 600 million users unencrypted and available to the company’s 20,000 employees going back as far as 2012.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 10, 2024

The problem: The Muhstik botnet exploited a severe RCE issue in Apache RocketMQ ( CVE-2023-33246 ) to attack Linux systems and IoT devices for DDoS and cryptomining. This vulnerability ( CVE-2024-4577 ) exploits a Windows encoding conversion feature to bypass CVE-2012-1823 protections.

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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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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Compare that to 2012 when the UAE ranked fifth in the Global Cybersecurity Index. Less than a year later, in March 2024, Anonymous Sudan launched a series of DDoS attacks against First Abu Dhabi Bank, RAKBANK, and Mashreq Bank, temporarily disrupting their online banking services. Thats a hefty price tag for businesses to pay.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2023

In 2012, Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) began to emerge to monitor user access of cloud services. CWPP provides strong defenses against a wide range of risks such as malware , ransomware , DDoS attacks , configuration errors , insider threats, and data breaches.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Infiltrating a cybercriminal operation can provide valuable data about different types of malicious activities, including DDoS attacks , malware distribution, and more. They went on to state that they usually dealt with such intruders by carrying out DDoS attacks against them. How we found the IRC botnet. Testing, backdoors, and money.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

FLASHBACK The new clues about Rescator’s identity came into focus when I revisited the reporting around an April 2013 story here that identified the author of the OSX Flashback Trojan , an early malware strain that quickly spread to more than 650,000 Mac computers worldwide in 2012. In 2013, Vrublevsky was sentenced to 2.5

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Blaauw said sometime between 2012 and 2013, Xennt purchased the bunker in Traben-Trarbach, Germany — a much more modern structure that was built in 1997. Kamphuis was later arrested in Spain on the DDoS attack charges. Image: Blaauw. in The Netherlands. in The Netherlands.

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