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FBI warns cyber actors abusing protocols as new DDoS attack vectors

Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2020

The FBI issued an alert last week warning about the discovery of new network protocols that have been exploited to launch large-scale DDoS attacks. The Federal Bureau of Investigation sent an alert last week warning about large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that abused new network protocols. continues the report.

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Massive increase in XorDDoS Linux malware in last six months

Malwarebytes

MAY 25, 2022

XorDDoS, a Linux Trojan known for its modularity and stealth, was first discovered in 2014 by the white hat research group, MalwareMustDie (MMD). DDoS attacks have become instrumental in successfully distracting organizations and security experts from figuring out threat actors’ end goal: Malware deployment or system infiltration.

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New Ttint IoT botnet exploits two zero-days in Tenda routers

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Unlike other IoT DDoS botnets, Ttint implements 12 remote access functions such as Socket5 proxy for router devices, tampering with router firewall and DNS settings, executing remote custom system commands. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” concludes the report.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

As detailed in my 2014 book, Spam Nation , Spamdot was home to crooks controlling some of the world’s nastiest botnets, global malware contagions that went by exotic names like Rustock , Cutwail , Mega-D , Festi , Waledac , and Grum. I can not provide DNS for u, only domains. w s, icamis[.]ru ru , and icamis[.]biz.

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Trend Micro observed notable malware activity associated with the Momentum Botnet

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Experts revealed details on the tools and techniques used by the botnet to compromise Linux devices and recruit them in launching distributed denial-of-service (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 -->.

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Roboto, a new P2P botnet targets Linux Webmin servers

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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M2M protocols can be abused to attack IoT and IIoT systems

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Security experts from Trend Micro discovered that some machine-to-machine (M2M) protocols can be abused to attack IoT and industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems. “For data gathering, we played the role of a casual attacker with modest resources, scanning the internet for exposed MQTT brokers and CoAP hosts.

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Chalubo, a new IoT botnet emerges in the threat landscape

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Security experts from Sophos Labs have spotted a new piece of IoT malware tracked as Chalubo that is attempting to recruit devices into a botnet used to launch DDoS attacks. Researchers noticed that the majority of code in bot is new, the authors focused on their own Lua handling for launching DoS attacks with DNS, UDP, and SYN flavours.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 192 – News of the week

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Duke-Cohan sentenced to three years in prison due to false bomb threats and DDoS. Hackers defaced Linux.org with DNS hijack. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. WordPress version 5.0.1 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Necurs Botnet adopts a new strategy to evade detection

Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2019

“Necurs is the multitool of botnets, evolving from operating as a spam botnet delivering banking trojans and ransomware to developing a proxy service, as well as cryptomining and DDoS capabilities,” explained Mike Benjamin, head of Black Lotus Labs. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Hoaxcalls Botnet expands the target list and adds new DDoS capabilities

Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2020

The Hoaxcalls IoT botnet expanded the list of targeted devices and has added new distributed denial of service (DDoS) capabilities. The botnet was initially designed to launch DDoS attacks using UDP, DNS and HEX floods. Experts also noticed that the new variant implements 16 new DDoS capabilities. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT threat evolution Q3 2021

SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The vulnerability is in MSHTML, the Internet Explorer engine. While the MBR infection has been known since at least 2014, details on the UEFI bootkit were publicly revealed for the first time in our private report on FinSpy. The following timeline sums up the different steps of the campaign.

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Group-IB presents its annual report on global threats to stability in cyberspace

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The new “ Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2019/2020 ” report describes attacks on various industries and critical infrastructure facilities, as well as campaigns aimed at destabilization of the Internet in certain countries. Internet destabilization at state level. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1988 — The Morris Worm — Robert Morris creates what would be known as the first worm on the Internet. 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! billion dollars in damages.

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[SI-LAB] #OpJerusalem 2019 – JCry ransomware is now infecting Windows users

Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

The new ransomware dubbed JCry (extension used to rename encrypted files.jcry ) is part of the OpIsrael 2019 — an annual coordinated cyber attack against the Israeli government and private websites created with the stated goal of “erasing Israel from the Internet” in protest against the Israeli government’s conduct in the Israel-Palestine conflict.

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[SI-LAB] #OpJerusalem 2019 – JCry ransomware is now infecting Windows users

Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

The new ransomware dubbed JCry (extension used to rename encrypted files.jcry ) is part of the OpIsrael 2019 — an annual coordinated cyber attack against the Israeli government and private websites created with the stated goal of “erasing Israel from the Internet” in protest against the Israeli government’s conduct in the Israel-Palestine conflict.

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FBI warns cyber actors abusing protocols as new DDoS attack vectors

Massive increase in XorDDoS Linux malware in last six months

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New Ttint IoT botnet exploits two zero-days in Tenda routers

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Trend Micro observed notable malware activity associated with the Momentum Botnet

Roboto, a new P2P botnet targets Linux Webmin servers

M2M protocols can be abused to attack IoT and IIoT systems

Chalubo, a new IoT botnet emerges in the threat landscape

Security Affairs newsletter Round 192 – News of the week

Necurs Botnet adopts a new strategy to evade detection

Hoaxcalls Botnet expands the target list and adds new DDoS capabilities

IT threat evolution Q3 2021

Group-IB presents its annual report on global threats to stability in cyberspace

Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

[SI-LAB] #OpJerusalem 2019 – JCry ransomware is now infecting Windows users

[SI-LAB] #OpJerusalem 2019 – JCry ransomware is now infecting Windows users

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