The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2019

A couple of high-profile distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks will surely go down in history as watershed events – each for different reasons. Related: IoT botnets now available for economical DDoS blasts. DDoS attacks aren’t going to go away anytime soon. His blog, Krebs on Security , was knocked down alright.

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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. REG.RU, Ltd, TimeWeb Ltd.,

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

Subsequently, DDoS attacks hit several government websites. The following day, Avast Threat Research announced the discovery of new Golang ransomware in Ukraine , which they dubbed HermeticRansom. Janicab was first introduced in 2013 as malware able to run on macOS and Windows operating systems.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

Over the last few days, a new ransomware campaign infected several users around the world as part of the #OpJerusalem campaign. Jcry is a recent ransomware written in Go which increases its analysis. However, the RSA public key used to encrypt the target files is static and hardcoded inside ransomware.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

Over the last few days, a new ransomware campaign infected several users around the world as part of the #OpJerusalem campaign. Jcry is a recent ransomware written in Go which increases its analysis. However, the RSA public key used to encrypt the target files is static and hardcoded inside ransomware.

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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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