Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a In December 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published new details about the identity of “Rescator,” a Russian cybercriminal who is thought to be closely connected to the 2013 data breach at Target.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 17, 2023

Most people who operate DDoS-for-hire services attempt to hide their true identities and location. But until recently, their biggest concern wasn’t avoiding capture or shutdown by the feds: It was minimizing harassment from unhappy customers or victims, and insulating themselves against incessant attacks from competing DDoS-for-hire services.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

In 2013, Vrublevsky was sentenced to 2.5 years in a Russian penal colony for convincing one of his top affiliates to launch a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against a competitor that shut down the ticketing system for the state-owned Aeroflot airline.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For instance, in late 2013 and January 2014, we observed higher-than-normal activity in Ukraine by the Turla APT group, as well as a spike in the number of BlackEnergy APT sightings. Taking sides: professional ransomware groups, hacktivists, and DDoS attacks. As soon as the attack stops, the target website becomes available again.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 19, 2020

The SBU said they found on Sanix’s computer records showing he sold databases with “logins and passwords to e-mail boxes, PIN codes for bank cards, e-wallets of cryptocurrencies, PayPal accounts, and information about computers hacked for further use in botnets and for organizing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.”

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

According to the report “A resurgence of RAM scraping malware is the most prominent tactical development in 2013,” the same tactic used in the giant Target breach. Many of the attacks in our 2013 dataset targeted off-the-shelf content management systems (e.g.,

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 18, 2022

UniCC opened shop in 2013, and specialized in credit card fraud and the sale of card details to criminals, collectively called carding. Then in November 2021, Cannazon , the largest marketplace for buying marijuana-based products, shut after a DDoS attack. A little bit about UniCC.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

A recent report from PandaLabs suggests that “there were twice as many malware infections in 2014 compared to 2013” and that 2015 could be even worse. Similarly, poorly designed vulnerability tests can spam your inbox with testing emails and impact the performance of your website due to unnecessary load (similar to DDoS).

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

biz which explain in intricate detail flaws found in high-profile malware tools whose authors have used his service in the past, including; the Black Energy DDoS bot administration panel; malware loading panels tied to the Smoke and Andromeda bot loaders; the RMS and Spyadmin trojans; and a popular loan scan script. ESTRANGED BEDFELLOWS.

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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

He admitted to taking Steam, EA Origin and Sony Online Entertainment offline in 2013 and 2014, causing at least $95,000 in damages.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

174 Linux cryptominer uses one of two privilege escalation exploits CVE-2016-5195 (aka Dirty COW) and CVE-2013-2094 to get root permissions on the infected system. 9 that implements backdoor features and allows to carry out DDoS attacks. The Linux.BtcMine.174 Then the Linux.BtcMine.174. Linux.BtcMine.174

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Anton on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

An anti-DDoS vendor promised “better zero trust visibility.” RSA 2013 and Endpoint Agent Re-Emergence RSA 2006–2015 In Anton’s Blog Posts! A password manager claimed “zero trust for passwords” while a SIEM/UEBA vendor promised to reveal all zero trust secrets (I bet they use VPN internally…). Yet another proclaimed that ZTNA 1.1

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2018

Bilogorskiy: Before 2013 a lot of malware was focused on spam, DDoS and monetizing through malicious advertising and ad fraud. But in 2013 we saw the first crypto-ransomware, called CryptoLocker , that started a transition to monetization through crypto ransomware.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2019

6 cyber-espionage campaigns since 2013 attributed to PKPLUG China-linked group. Dutch police shut down bulletproof service hosting tens of DDoS botnets. Ten hospitals in Alabama and Australia have been hit with ransomware attacks. Zendesk 2016 security breach may impact Uber, Slack, and other organizations. Organizations.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

The company launched in 2013, the brainchild of Ryan Trost and Wayne Chiang, a couple of buddies working as security analysts in a U.S. As companies get better at centralized sharing and automated detection and response, the effectiveness of today’s leading-edge DDoS, ransomware and APT attacks ought to decline.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 10, 2022

An anti-DDoS vendor promised “better zero trust visibility.” RSA 2013 and Endpoint Agent Re-Emergence. A password manager claimed “zero trust for passwords” while a SIEM/UEBA vendor promised to reveal all zero trust secrets (I bet they use VPN internally…). A firewall management vendor claimed to “simplify zero trust.”

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Cisco Security

MAY 12, 2022

Threat actors picking sides [1], group members turning against each other [2], some people handing out DDoS tools [3], some people blending in to turn it into profit [4], and many other stories, proving that this new frontier is changing daily, and its direct impact is not limited to geographical boundaries.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

It also has different DDoS functionality. CVE-2013-3307. CVE-2013-5223. However, there is a difference between the Mirai malware and the new malware variants using Go, including differences in the language in which it is written and the malware architectures. CVE-2018-10561, CVE-2018-10562. GPON home routers. Linksys X3000 1.0.03

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

“Installing SpyEYE, ZeuS, any DDoS and spam admin panels,” NeroWolfe wrote. ” In April 2013, NeroWolfe wrote in a private message to another Verified forum user that he was selling a malware “loader” program that could bypass all of the security protections on Windows XP and Windows 7. “P.S. .

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

18, 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that U.S. 25, 2013, two days before Target said the breach officially began, Rescator could be seen in instant messages hiring another forum member to verify 400,000 payment cards that Rescator claimed were freshly stolen. In 2013, Vrublevsky was sentenced to 2.5

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Search for your account across multiple breaches [link] — Have I Been Pwned (@haveibeenpwned) December 4, 2013 And then, as they say, things kinda escalated quickly. "Have I been pwned?" " by @troyhunt is now up and running.

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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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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

Kentik’s solutions can protect core, edge, and cloud networks while adding DDoS and botnet protection, supply chain analytics, and synthetics. Not just an adorable logo, Datadog offers robust solutions for monitoring, performance metrics, and alert notifications for today’s IT environments. Kentik Features. ManageEngine.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

More recently, some threat groups have begun to add data destruction to their arsenal to raise the stakes even further, and DDoS attacks have also been threatened as a means of getting organizations to pay ransoms. Black Basta uses a double-extortion RaaS model with the added threat of DDoS attacks. What is Ransomware as a Service?

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

From mining cryptocurrency to launching DDoS attacks against networks, there are countless ways in which malware can access and utilize victim’s computers and data. One of the most notorious one being the BlackPOS spyware that compromised the data of over 40 million Target customers in 2013. Warning signs. Ransomware.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In August 2013, Australian security firm, Gibson Security, contacted the Snapchat team to notify them of a vulnerability in their API that would allow hackers access to user data. Snapchat didn’t respond, and on December 31st 2013, Gibson Security released the source code for the API exploit publicly (a common Google practice).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

From mining cryptocurrency to launching DDoS attacks against networks, there are countless ways in which malware can access and utilize victim’s computers and data. One of the most notorious one being the BlackPOS spyware that compromised the data of over 40 million Target customers in 2013. Warning Signs of Malware Infection.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 26, 2022

Edward Snowden and the NSA breach of 2013, as well as dozens of other nightmares, point to the growing threat of inside threats for a universe of IT environments. The Cisco Secure portfolio is massive, including next-generation firewalls (NGFW), MFA, vulnerability management, and DDoS protection.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 21, 2021

In 2013, the FBI charged and arrested Aleksander “Harderman” Panin , a 24-year-old Russian male believed to be the creator of the SpyEye Trojan. There had been reports of a code hand-over , yes, further confirming the merging of the two malware, but the ZeuS creator didn’t quit.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

Subsequently, DDoS attacks hit several government websites. Janicab was first introduced in 2013 as malware able to run on macOS and Windows operating systems. The Windows version has a VBS script-based implant as the final stage, instead of the C#/PowerShell combination observed previously in Powersing samples.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

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. Welcome to [link] Hacked By Chinese!”.

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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: 2013. Imperva (WAF, database security, threat intelligence, DDoS ).

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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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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. One of the earliest examples of ransomware was the 2013 CryptoLocker virus , which infected computers around the world and demanded payment in Bitcoin.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2021

Cisco’s acquisition of Sourcefire in 2013 brought to the networking giant the Firepower Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention System (NGIPS). For NGFWs, Akamai’s Kona Site Defender can deflect the most significant DDoS attacks , maintain performance during attacks, and pre-define application-layer controls.

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