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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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Mirai V3G4 botnet exploits 13 flaws to target IoT devices

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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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We infiltrated an IRC botnet. Here’s what we found

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Infiltrating a cybercriminal operation can provide valuable data about different types of malicious activities, including DDoS attacks , malware distribution, and more. With the acquired information in hand, we jumped at the opportunity to carry out reconnaissance. How we found the IRC botnet. A vintage botnet, rarely seen in the wild.

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A new Adwind variant involved in attacks on US petroleum industry

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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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