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After ChatGPT, Anonymous Sudan took down the Cloudflare website

Security Affairs

After ChatGPT, Anonymous Sudan took down the Cloudflare website with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The hacktivist group Anonymous Sudan claimed responsibility for the massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that took down the website of Cloudflare. “ To be clear, there was no Cloudflare breach.

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Man Who Mass-Extorted Psychotherapy Patients Gets Six Years

Krebs on Security

Kivimäki initially gained notoriety as a self-professed member of the Lizard Squad , a mainly low-skilled hacker group that specialized in DDoS attacks. But American and Finnish investigators say Kivimäki’s involvement in cybercrime dates back to at least 2008, when he was introduced to a founding member of what would soon become HTP.

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October 2023 Patch Tuesday Includes Three Zero-Days Flaws

eSecurity Planet

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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Finland’s Most-Wanted Hacker Nabbed in France

Krebs on Security

Kivimäki initially gained notoriety as a self-professed member of the Lizard Squad , a mainly low-skilled hacker group that specialized in DDoS attacks. The DDoS-for-hire service allegedly operated by Kivimäki in 2012. Kivimäki was 15 years old at the time.

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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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Mirai V3G4 botnet exploits 13 flaws to target IoT devices

Security Affairs

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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Booter Boss Busted By Bacon Pizza Buy

Krebs on Security

Investigators say Bukoski’s booter service was among the longest running services targeted by the FBI, operating since at least 2012. The landing page for the Quantum Stresser attack-for-hire service. When an online pizza delivery order brings FBI agents to raid your home.

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