Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

11, when the company’s Twitter account started fielding reports from users who said they were no longer receiving messages. VFEmail’s Twitter account responded that “external facing systems, of differing OS’s and remote authentication, in multiple data centers are down.” 9], username “aktv.”).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Google delivered 33,015 alerts to its users during the first three quarters of 2020 to warn them of phishing attacks, launched by nation-state actors, targeting their accounts. The threat actor behind this campaign was primarily acquiring or hijacking existing accounts and using them to spread content crafted for their intent.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2019

The Anonymous member is a 35-year-old man from Roeselare, Belgium, was arrested after throwing a Molotov cocktail at the Crelan Bank office in Rumbeke, back in 2014. The member of Anonymous was also involved in DDoS attacks against online banking system of the Crelan Bank that shut down the portal on numerous occasions.

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

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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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2020

Security researchers spotted a new piece of DDoS bot dubbed Kaiji that is targeting IoT devices via SSH brute-force attacks. The malicious code was designed to target Linux-based servers and Internet of Things (IoT) devices and use them as part of a DDoS botnet. You may want to block #C2 at: 1[.]versionday[.]xyz versionday[.]xyz

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2020

This article explains what we have learned about the Fbot traced back from the year of 2014. This wave is a significant timeline as a technology step-up for DDoS botnet and IoT malware development. Figure 1 – Vamp’s account on Twitter). Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The Mozi botnet accounted for 90% of the IoT network traffic observed between October 2019 and June 2020, IBM reported. According to the researchers, in the last months of 2019, the botnet was mainly involved in DDoS attacks. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2019

you can mark Market as scam exited and ban all our official accounts” reads the message published by the Market admin. Some users speculate that several black marketplaces, including the Grey Market, were hit by powerful DDoS attacks. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Iran, hacking).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

.” The analysis of the bot revealed that it supports seven functions: reverse shell, self-uninstall, gather process’ network information, gather Bot information, execute system commands, run encrypted files specified in URLs, DDoS attack, etc. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2020

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For instance, according to the New York Times, in 2003, the United States made plans for a huge cyberattack to freeze billions of dollars in Saddam Hussein’s bank accounts and cripple his government before the invasion of Iraq. Taking sides: professional ransomware groups, hacktivists, and DDoS attacks.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Twitter account of Huawei Mobile Brazil hacked. A flaw in Microsoft OAuth authentication could lead Azure account takeover. China used the Great Cannon DDoS Tool against forum used by Hong Kong protestors. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The Apollon market, one of the largest marketplaces, is likely exit scamming after the administrators have locked vendors’ accounts. Users on Reddit are reporting that vendors can’t withdrawal funds nor sign into their account, only buyers are still able to sign onto their accounts. ” continues Darknetstats.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2019

With this resource, it was possible to buy activated accounts in large numbers to various mail resources, social networks, payment systems and more. At the same time, verified accounts were also sold, the cost of which was much higher.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2020

Last week a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack shut down the websites and systems of Minneapolis, but there is no evidence of a breach. But some security experts argued that the data were not obtained as result of a security breach occurred during the DDoS attack. ” reads the Hunt’s analysis.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

One of them is the Layer 7 (HTTP) Attack reported in the picture below documenting how this kind of malware can evade the anti-DDoS solutions like Cloudfare. You can learn more about these tools by following the various Instagram accounts of the crew.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Attackers are hacking NSC Linear eMerge E3 building access systems to launch DDoS attacks. Facebooks official Twitter and Instagram accounts hacked by OurMine. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. .

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

Slickwraps discloses data leak that impacted 850,000 user accounts. Silence Hacking Crew threatens Australian banks of DDoS attacks. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Lampion malware v2 February 2020.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2020

Stolen credentials were bought by fraudsters, hackers, and scammers to carry out a broad range of malicious activities, such as launching malspam campaign or take over users’ accounts. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – Sanix, hacking).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2020

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2020

“The Linux variant has adjusted some features in order to account for the fundamental differences that exist between this operating system and Windows.” Curiously, until now, the researchers have not seen the IPStorm operators doing malicious activities, such as performing DDoS attacks or relaying malicious traffic.

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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). ” continues the a nalysis. . ” conclude the expert.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

DDoS attacks from rivals are common, so several domains working together keeps things ticking over. Joker’s Stash, trading since 2014 , received more than $100,000 in Bitcoin from SSNDOB. One breach taking your login from a gaming forum can quickly become something that exposes Government service logins or bank accounts.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

and lower) to compromise them and install the malicious code the exploit the CVE-2014-3120 and CVE-2015-1427 vulnerabilities. These attacks leverage CVE-2014-3120 and CVE-2015-1427, both of which are only present in old versions of Elasticsearch and exploit the ability to pass scripts to search queries.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2019

Attackers hacked support agent to access Microsoft Outlook email accounts. A new DDoS technique abuses HTML5 Hyperlink Audit Ping in massive attacks. A new DDoS technique abuses HTML5 Hyperlink Audit Ping in massive attacks. Gnosticplayers round 5 – 65 Million+ fresh accounts from 6 security breaches available for sale.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2019

Twitter account of Scotland Yard hacked and posted bizarre messages. WizzAir informed customers it forced a password reset on their accounts. Imperva blocked the largest Layer 7 DDoS attack it has ever seen. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2018

Then the malware uses the Mimikatz tool to get the user account credentials from the machine and use it to attempt lateral movements inside the target network. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

DDoS attack, cryptocurrency miner, data harvesting). One of the first attacks against QNAP is dated back 2014, at the time security experts at Sans Institute discovered a worm that exploits the popular Shellshock flaw to compromise QNAP systems in the wild. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

percent of all the data collected, followed by TP-Link that accounted for 9.07%. “More and more exploits are being weaponized by cybercriminals, and infected devices are used to steal personal data and mine cryptocurrencies, on top of traditional DDoS attacks. ” concludes Kaspersky. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The Emotet banking trojan has been active at least since 2014, the botnet is operated by a threat actor tracked as TA542. Other modules seen in early versions of Emotet included a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) module and a banking module. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2020

To limit access to your accounts, use IP Whitelist and IP Blacklist where possible. A good manager takes accountability, and a fantastic API does so too. Instead of creating an account on a website, you can connect via credentials from another provider, such as Facebook or Google. OAuth & OpenID Connect. OWASP top 10.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2019

“Unlike common Linux malware, HiddenWasp is not focused on crypto-mining or DDoS activity. The script allows the malware to achieve persistence, it creates a new system’s user account and to update older variants if the system was already compromised. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Group-IB , a global threat hunting and intelligence company headquartered in Singapore, has assisted Paxful , an international peer-to-peer cryptocurrency marketplace, in countering a wave of web-bot and social engineering attacks, and customer account takeovers. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2018

The latest version of payload used by EliteLands is adding accounts with a lifespan of five minutes that execute his payload and then is deleted from the device. “This is like a burner account,” Anubhav told Bleeping Computer. “Usually people don’t make new user accounts with access of only 5 minutes.”

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