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Massive DDoS attack brought down 25% Iranian Internet connectivity

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Iran comes under cyber-attack again, a massive offensive brought down a large portion of the Iranian access to the Internet. Iran infrastructures are under attack, a massive cyberattack brought down a large portion of the Iranian access to the Internet, according to the experts the national connectivity fell to 75%.

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Enemybot, a new DDoS botnet appears in the threat landscape

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Enemybot is a DDoS botnet that targeted several routers and web servers by exploiting known vulnerabilities. Researchers from Fortinet discovered a new DDoS botnet, tracked as Enemybot, that has targeted several routers and web servers by exploiting known vulnerabilities. Upon installing the threat, the bot drops a file in /tmp/.pwned

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New Lucifer DDoS botnet targets Windows systems with multiple exploits

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Upon infecting a system the bot turns it into a cryptomining client and could use it to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The malware author named the bot Satan DDoS, but Palo Alto Network’s Unit42 researchers dubbed it Lucifer because there’s another malware with the same name, the Satan Ransomware.

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New Zealand stock exchange (NZX) halted 2 days by DDoS attack

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New Zealand’s stock exchange (NZX) confirmed it was hit by a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack from abroad that knocked it offline two days. The DDoS attack impacted traders, anyway financial or personal information of the users was not accessed. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Developer of DDoS Mirai based botnets sentenced to prison

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A man accused to have developed distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnets based on the Mirai botnet was sentenced to 13 months in federal prison. Schuchman compromised hundreds of thousands of IoT devices, including home routers and IP cameras, to create multiple DDoS IoT botnets that he rented to carry out the attacks.

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Experts warn of surge in DDoS attacks targeting education institutions

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Experts warn of a surge in the DDoS attacks against education institutions and the academic industry across the world. The DDoS attacks are causing severe issues to the targeted education institutions such as temporarily takedown of the network and online classes. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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T-Mobile suffered a major outage in the US allegedly caused by a massive DDoS attack

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Wireless carrier T-Mobile suffered a major outage in the United States, that impacted service at other carriers, due to a “massive” DDoS attack. Wireless carrier T-Mobile suffered a massive DDoS attack that caused a major outage in the United States that impacted service at other carriers due to a “massive” DDoS attack.

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