Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2019

Threat actors leverage the vulnerability to install denial of service (DDoS) malware and crypto-currency miners, and to remotely execute code. ” The AESDDoS bot involved in the recent attacks has the ability to launch several types of DDoS attacks, including SYN, LSYN, UDP, UDPS, and TCP flood. . local and /etc/rc.d/

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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. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2020

In a few days back, the MalwareMustDie team’s security researcher unixfreaxjp has published a new Linux malware analysis of Fbot that has focused on the decryption of the last encryption logic used by its bot client. This article explains what we have learned about the Fbot traced back from the year of 2014. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2020

“Notably, FONIX varies somewhat from many other current RaaS offerings in that it employs four methods of encryption for each file and has an overly-complex post-infection engagement cycle.” The FONIX ransomware only targets Windows systems, by default it encrypts all file types, excluding critical Windows OS files.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Once gained the foothold in the target network, the attackers will attempt lateral movements to elevate the privileges and search for high-value machines to encrypt (i.e. Recently Check Point researchers warned of a surge in the DDoS attacks against education institutions and the academic industry across the world. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. “The attackers encrypt both the main bot component and its corresponding Lua script using the ChaCha stream cipher.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2019

Current version leverages a text-based protocol and implements protection that drops the connection if a specific string is not provided, it also supports encrypted commands. ” The new Miori variant supports encrypted commands and is allowed to connect to the command server only after sending the specific string.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

In addition to the being compiled for these new architectures, experts pointed out that new samples also implement a new encryption algorithm that is a modified version of the standard byte-wise XOR used in the original Mirai source code. The new samples also use a new “TCP SYN” DDoS attack option called “attack_method_ovh.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

Kr00k Wi-Fi Encryption flaw affects more than a billion devices. 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 -->. Fbot re-emerged, the backstage.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2021

ZHtrap propagates using four vulnerabilities, experts pointed out that the botnet mainly used to conduct DDoS attacks and scanning activities, while integrating some backdoor features. ZHtrap prapagates using the following Nday vulnerability: JAWS_DVR_RCE NETGEAR CCTV_DVR_RCE CVE-2014-8361.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2019

The popular expert unixfreaxjp analyzed a new China ELF DDoS’er malware tracked as “Linux/DDoSMan” that evolves from the Elknot malware to deliver new ELF bot. The code seems inspired from multiple source code of China basis DDoS client, like Elknot. Non-Technical-Premise. But let’s go to the finding. On the MMD blog.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Apple Mail stores parts of encrypted emails in plaintext DB. Experts warn of spike in TCP DDoS reflection attacks targeting Amazon, SoftLayer and telco infrastructure. DDoS-for-Hire Services operator sentenced to 13 months in prison. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2019

The new malware implements the same encryption scheme characteristic of Mirai, it is also able to scan for vulnerable devices and launch HTTP Flood 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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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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

DDoS attack, cryptocurrency miner, data harvesting). The ransomware, tracked by Intezer as “ QNAPCrypt ” and “ eCh0raix ” by Anomali, is written in the Go programming language and uses AES encryption to encrypt files. . Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2020

Encryption. You and your partners can cipher all TLS (the successor to SSL) transfers, be it one-way encryption (also called standard one-way TLS) or even better, shared encryption (two-way TLS). Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Just be cryptic. OWASP top 10. Avoid wasps.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2019

Experts also identified a byte sequence indicative of a DDoS command sent from the C&C server via a UDP flood attack to target a specific IP address. ” ~ 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

OCTOBER 13, 2020

As an example, we could use communications between systems that are not properly encrypted. Improper encryption. Hackers or other malicious sources can intercept poorly encrypted communications on the web. Nobody told them that their coffee machine could be hacked into or that their camera could be used to launch a DDoS attack.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

According to McKinsey & Company , the proportion of organizations that use IoT products has grown from 13 percent in 2014 to 25 percent today. For instance, malicious actors can use malware to enslave exposed IoT devices into a botnet and launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Choose your partners wisely.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In the previous month we covered the mystery behind the Mirai botnet variant dubbed as “Fbot” after the threat’s latest encryption was disclosed by security researcher unixfreaxjp of the MalwareMustDie team. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Fbot is not different. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I held this position from 2000 through 2014, during which time Windows emerged as a prime target for both precocious script kiddies and emerging criminal hacking rings. What drew you to this field? Byron: I was initially drawn to cybersecurity as a USA TODAY technology reporter assigned to cover Microsoft.

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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.

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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.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

. “Unlike the aforementioned IoT botnets, this one tries to be more stealthy and persistent once the device is compromised, and it does not (yet) do the usual stuff a botnet does like DDOS , attacking all the devices connected to the internet, or, of course, mining cryptocurrencies.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 26, 2022

The Cisco Secure portfolio is massive, including next-generation firewalls (NGFW), MFA, vulnerability management, and DDoS protection. Detection for signature-less, insider, and encrypted malware threats. Malware analysis without decryption for advanced encrypted threats. Cisco Secure Network Analytics Features. billion in 2016.

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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. Next-Generation Cryptography. Chronicled.

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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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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2018

The Gafgyt botnet, also known as Bashlite and Lizkebab , first appeared in the wild in 2014 had its source code was leaked in early 2015. Some samples belonging to this campaign include the addition of two new DDoS methods to the Mirai source code.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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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.”

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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.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

The first version spotted by TrendMicro includes a DDoS script that could be used by botmaster to set-up DDoS for-hire service offered on the dark web. The definition of p ip means to read “ip port” file, namely the file which is downloaded by one of the two C2 with encrypted multiple SSH requests as shown by Fig.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This means that sensitive information, like login credentials or credit card numbers, is encrypted as it passes between the website and its server. Since 2014, Google has given higher priority to secure websites , in hopes of encouraging more websites to make the switch from HTTP to HTTPS. Working hard on your site’s SEO?

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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 most notable developments in the early 2010s was the rise of ransomware, a type of malware that encrypts a victim's files and demands payment in exchange for the decryption key.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2023

Cloud Security Posture Management services (CSPM) began to appear in 2014 to manage cloud service configurations as cloud service providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud grew more prevalent. In 2012, Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) began to emerge to monitor user access of cloud services.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 25, 2022

With ransomware, attackers encrypt an organization's data and hold it hostage until a ransom is paid. You could do that, then unleash a ransomware attack to encrypt all the evidence. The company has so far refused to say whether it paid any ransom but said it hopes to be largely back online by the end of this week.

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