Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

This post examines the activities of Khoroshev’s many alter egos on the cybercrime forums, and tracks the career of a gifted malware author who has written and sold malicious code for the past 14 years. was used by a Russian-speaking member called Pin on the English-language cybercrime forum Opensc. Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Dutch police seized a bulletproof hosting service in a major takedown, the infrastructure was used by tens of IoT botnets involved in DDoS attacks. The servers were hosted at an unnamed data center in Amsterdam, it was used by tens of IoT botnets involved in DDoS attacks worldwide. ” continues the statement. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2020

Justice Department today criminally charged a Canadian and a Northern Ireland man for allegedly conspiring to build botnets that enslaved hundreds of thousands of routers and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices for use in large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. — pleaded guilty in Sept.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The Department of Justice (DoJ) announced that the FBI seized 15 domains associated with DDoS-for-hire services. The FBI has seized 15 domains associated with DDoS-for-hire services (aka booters or stressers ) that were used by their customers to launch powerful DDoS attacks. Authorities Take Down 15 DDoS-for-Hire Websites.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Researchers from Radware reported that massive TCP SYN-ACK DDoS reflection attacks hit Amazon, SoftLayer and telecom infrastructure in the last month. Researchers from Radware are warning of a wave of TCP SYN-ACK DDoS reflection attacks that in the last 30 days hit Amazon, SoftLayer and telecom infrastructure. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Security researchers at FortiGuard Labs have discovered a new DDoS-for-hire service called “ 0x-booter” built with leaked code that implements an easy to use interface. “ The DDoS-for-hire service allows users to power different attacks, primarily at the Transport and Application layers. ” .

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

We can therefore expect that cybercrime groups from either block will feel safe to attack companies from the opposing side. And that (b) we are also likely to see a steep increase in DDoS extortion campaigns as the Cyberwar in Ukraine leads to all-time-high levels of DDoS attacks. I expect that the theft of medical data (ex.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2022

The botnet was first discovered by Fortinet in March, the DDoS botnet targeted several routers and web servers by exploiting known vulnerabilities. The researchers attribute the botnet to the cybercrime group Keksec which focuses on DDoS-based extortion. Upon installing the threat, the bot drops a file in /tmp/.pwned

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Kenneth Currin Schuchman (21) from Vancouver, Washington pleaded guilty to creating and operating multiple DDoS IoT botnet , including Satori. Kenneth Currin Schuchman (21) from Vancouver, Washington, aka Nexus Zeta, pleaded guilty to creating and operating multiple DDoS IoT botnets.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Massive DDoS attack brought down 25% Iranian Internet connectivity. Safer internet day – Cybercrime facts Infographic. Reading the 2019 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived!

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2019

An employee of the rival firm Cellcom paid Kaye to carry out a DDoS attack on the Liberian phone and internet provider Lonestar. Daniel Kaye admitted that the DDoS attack aimed at the African telco company inadvertently isolated Liberia from the Internet. SecurityAffairs – Liberia, DDoS). ” reported the BBC.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

At SiteLock, our mission is to help create a secure Internet for all users. Students Pay for Cybercrime. Take it from Rutgers University, which experienced six DDoS attacks in 2015 – one of which lasted as long as five days. Ask yourself, what is your responsibility to the Internet at large?” – Neill Feather.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

On the modern Internet, malware is a near-constant presence. Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the precursor of the modern Internet we know, love, and sometimes hate. Worms and the Dawn of the Internet Age: 1987-2000. Want to Learn More About Malware?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Three men who admitted to being the authors of the Mirai botnet avoided the jail after helping the FBI in other cybercrime investigations. Now three individuals who admitted to being the authors of the infamous botnet avoided the jail after helping feds in another cybercrime investigations. District Judge in Alaska sentenced the men.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

Raccoon Malware, a success case in the cybercrime ecosystem. Silence Hacking Crew threatens Australian banks of DDoS attacks. Threat actors scan Internet for Vulnerable Microsoft Exchange Servers. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Lampion malware v2 February 2020.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Of course, we should note that the opposite is also possible: for instance, starting in June 2016, but most notably since September 2016 all the way to December 2016, the Turla group intensified their satellite-based C&C registrations tenfold compared to its 2015 average.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

fitness chains Town Sports leaked online Group-IB detects a series of ransomware attacks by OldGremlin HOW DO PROVIDERS IMPLEMENT INTERNET BLOCKING IN BELARUS? Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

Mirai malware first appeared in the wild in 2016 when the expert MalwareMustDie discovered it in massive attacks aimed at Internet of Things (IoT) devices. which allows it to attack a wider range of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, Since the code of the Mirai botnet was leaked online many variants emerged in the threat landscape.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

German authorities said Friday they’d arrested seven people and were investigating six more in connection with the raid of a Dark Web hosting operation that allegedly supported multiple child porn, cybercrime and drug markets with hundreds of servers buried inside a heavily fortified military bunker. Image: swr.de. Cyberbunkers 1.0

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

“The group distributes the bot by exploiting a common command injection vulnerability on internet of things (IoT) devices and Linux servers. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” reads the analysis published by TrendMicro. Pierluigi Paganini. Security Affairs – Shellbot, bot).

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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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2019

Many brands recognize that keeping their machines connected to the internet can assist them with tracking trends, avoiding downtime and more. It also tops the list of annual cybercrime costs at about $18 million. But, the expenses climb dramatically for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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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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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 threat actor probably leveraged vulnerabilities on internet-facing servers to deploy BellaCiao.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 25, 2022

And then 2015, where around that time was when we saw like, Hey, you clicked on a binary and your computer's locked up, right, which is a very, that ransomware is a very singular thing. And if the whole world goes blind, the internet shuts down. And I would not have really said that to your point in 2015 era. And that was 1989.

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