Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2018

In 2014 it reached the pinnacle of success, becoming the fourth largest botnet in the world. DDoS attacks, ransomware-based campaigns, cryptocurrency mining campaigns). We named this botnet “Black” due to the RC4 key value, “black”, that is used for traffic encryption in this botnet.” Bot-B connects to Bot-A.

Malware 47

Malware DNS Encryption Banking 47

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

AES-256 encryption for data at rest and TLS v1.2 The youngest of companies picked for this year’s list, Kentik has been a budding networking monitoring vendor since 2014. Kentik’s solutions can protect core, edge, and cloud networks while adding DDoS and botnet protection, supply chain analytics, and synthetics.

Marketing 110

Marketing DDOS Threat Detection DNS 110

SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

In June, more than six months after DarkHalo had gone dark, we observed the DNS hijacking of multiple government zones of a CIS member state that allowed the attacker to redirect traffic from government mail servers to computers under their control – probably achieved by obtaining credentials to the control panel of the victims’ registrar.

Malware 86

Malware Banking Energy and Utilities Accountability 86

eSecurity Planet

JULY 28, 2021

DDoS: Overwhelming the Network. In the age-old denial of service (DDoS) attack, a fleet of attacker devices can overwhelm an organization’s web server, thus blocking access to legitimate users. As encryption methods go, AES-128 and RSA-2048 are vulnerable to quantum attacks. More robust security for Domain Name Systems (DNS).

Cybersecurity 135

Cybersecurity Cryptocurrency Technology Energy and Utilities 135

Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

Criminals used UPX packer to protect malware code written in Go and a RSA public certificate is hardcoded inside malware to encrypt all user’s target files. This finding results in a simple “key” to encrypt all the infected victims. However, the RSA public key used to encrypt the target files is static and hardcoded inside ransomware.

Ransomware 81

Ransomware Encryption Malware Cyber Attacks 81

Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

Criminals used UPX packer to protect malware code written in Go and a RSA public certificate is hardcoded inside malware to encrypt all user’s target files. This finding results in a simple “key” to encrypt all the infected victims. However, the RSA public key used to encrypt the target files is static and hardcoded inside ransomware.

Ransomware 40

Ransomware Encryption Malware Cyber Attacks 40

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.

Cybercrime 135

Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135