Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

Raccoon Malware, a success case in the cybercrime ecosystem. 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 -->. Lampion malware v2 February 2020. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. TA505 Cybercrime targets system integrator companies. DDoS-for-Hire Services operator sentenced to 13 months in prison. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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.

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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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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In July 2001, the Code Red Worm attempted to subject the entire Internet to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Eventually, the infected computers were all directed to attempt a DDoS specifically on whitehouse.gov, though the White House managed to sidestep the assault. It later evolved to also include file encryption.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2018

In 2015, Europol partnering with several private technology firms announced the takedown of the Ramnit C2 infrastructure. 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

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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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. And that was 1989.

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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

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. Based on our findings, there are some similarities in both techniques and architectures with another cybercrime group, which appeared in the wild around 2012, most probably Romanian.

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SecureList

JULY 27, 2023

Killnet, led by a person nicknamed “KillMilk”, is one of the leaders of the hacktivist movement that uses DDoS as a means of disruption. The new MATA orchestrator introduced several modifications to its encryption, configuration and communication protocols and appears to have been rewritten from scratch.

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