CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 1, 2022

As CIOs and CTOs are getting extremely worried about distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS), here’s a brief article that can help to enlighten their mind on protecting their corporate networks, without the need of any professional help. Running a DDoS Testing- It is essential, although it is a 3 hour effort to conduct.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In December, Canada’s Laurentian University reported a DDoS attack. Educational institutions are recommended to use anti-DDoS solutions and strong firewall settings, and partner up with ISPs. In early October, a DDoS attack was reported by the PUBG Mobile team. But it dealt with the problem in a matter of minutes.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The Google Cloud team revealed that in September 2017 it has mitigated DDoS attack that reached 2.54 Tbps, the largest DDoS attack of ever. The Google Cloud team revealed that back in September 2017 it has mitigated a powerful DDoS attack that clocked at 2.54 Tbps DDoS attack mitigated by Amazon’s AWS in February.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

biz which explain in intricate detail flaws found in high-profile malware tools whose authors have used his service in the past, including; the Black Energy DDoS bot administration panel; malware loading panels tied to the Smoke and Andromeda bot loaders; the RMS and Spyadmin trojans; and a popular loan scan script. ESTRANGED BEDFELLOWS.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2021

Cloudflare last month fought off a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by a botnet that was bombarding 17.2 The attack was almost three times larger than any previous attack that Cloudflare is aware of, according to Omar Yoachimik, product manager for DDoS protection at Cloudflare. DDoS Attacks on the Rise.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 20, 2021

On the Cloudflare blog , the American web infrastructure behemoth that provides content delivery network (CDN) and DDoS mitigation services reports that it detected and mitigated a 17.2 million request-per-second (rps) DDoS attack. The target of this enormous DDoS attack was a customer of Cloudflare in the financial sector.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2022

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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CSO Magazine

APRIL 25, 2022

Larry Pesce remembers the day when the distributed denial of service (DDoS) threat landscape changed dramatically. It was late fall in 2016 when a fellow researcher joined him at the InGuardians lab, where he is director of research.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A Mirai-based DDoS botnet tracked as IZ1H9 has added thirteen new exploits to target routers from different vendors, including D-Link, Zyxel, and TP-Link. Below is the list of exploit payloads added to the bot: D-Link: CVE-2015-1187 , CVE-2016-20017 , CVE-2020-25506 , and CVE-2021-45382. ” concludes the analysis.

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Tech Republic Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Akamai recently released its State of the Internet and Security Report for Q3 2016, detailing the rise of certain threats and the overall security landscape.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2019

Usatyuk developed and operated other DDoS-for-hire services with a co-conspirator between August 2015 and November 2017. The list of illegal DDoS-for-hire services operated by the man includes ExoStress.in (“ ExoStresser ”), QuezStresser.com, Betabooter.com (“ Betabooter ”), Databooter.com, Instabooter.com, Polystress.com, and Zstress.net.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

. “Size does not matter – all levels of users are under the radar of law enforcement, be it a gamer booting out the competition out of a game, or a high-level hacker carrying out DDoS attacks against commercial targets for financial gain,” Europol officials warned.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Back in 2016, the primary focus of our expert was on major cybergangs that targeted financial institutions, banks in particular. This browser attack chain, popular in 2016, is no longer possible. Then and now: a comparison of how cybercrime groups looked in 2016 vs 2021. Change of targets.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

the administrator of DDoS-for-hire services was sentenced to 13 months in prison, and additional three years of supervised release. Usatyuk , a man that was operating several DDoS-for-hire services was sentenced to 13 months in prison, and additional three years of supervised release. Sergiy P. , hours of network downtime.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 26, 2018

According to sentencing memo submitted by government prosecutors, in his freshman and sophomore years at Rutgers Jha used a collection of hacked devices to launch at least four distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the university’s networks. 2016 attack that sidelined this Web site for nearly four days.

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Penetration Testing

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

AhnLab has discovered attacks on vulnerable MySQL servers using the Ddostf bot for DDoS assaults. First identified in 2016, Ddostf supports both Windows and Linux and is presumably developed in China.

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

DirtyMoe, active since at least 2016, is capable of carrying out cryptojacking and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has warned that more than 2,000 computers in the country have been infected by a strain of malware called DirtyMoe.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 7, 2023

Now, information is out that someone appears to have launched a Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDoS) on Mastodon. The company was existing since 2016. The post DDoS attack hits Mastodon, the Twitter rival appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders. Well, let’s do some marketing as the platform deserves what is it in real!

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 23, 2021

Security firm Cloudflare successfully detected and mitigated a DDoS attack that peaked at 17.2 Omer Yoachimik, Product Manager of Cloudflare's DDoS Protection Service, discusses the scale of the attack: "For perspective on how large this attack was: Cloudflare serves over 25 million HTTP requests per second on average.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Following their dramatic arrests in 2016, many news media outlets reported that the men were suspected of having tipped off American intelligence officials about those responsible for Russian hacking activities tied to the 2016 U.S. Both men maintained their innocence throughout the trial. presidential election.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

I wrote about the company in 2015 after it suffered a debilitating distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack after Romero declined to pay a ransom demand from an online extortion group. Another series of DDoS attacks in 2017 forced VFEmail to find a new hosting provider. based ISP Staminus come to mind).

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

In July 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published a story identifying a Toronto man as the author of the Orcus RAT , a software product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. This week, Canadian authorities criminally charged him with orchestrating an international malware scheme.

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Penetration Testing

JUNE 20, 2024

.” Discovered in May 2024, this Golang-based threat exhibits advanced features beyond typical DDoS capabilities, including proxying, scanning, self-upgrades, persistence mechanisms, and exfiltration... The post Zergeca Botnet Exposed: Advanced Capabilities Beyond DDoS appeared first on Cybersecurity News.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2019

The British hacker Daniel Kaye (29) has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for the 2016 attack that took down telecommunications services in Liberia. An employee of the rival firm Cellcom paid Kaye to carry out a DDoS attack on the Liberian phone and internet provider Lonestar. SecurityAffairs – Liberia, DDoS).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 13, 2021

According to a research carried out by Maryland based Cybersecurity firm Tenable, hackers are targeting millions of home routers to add them to the Mirai botnet radar that is used to launch DDoS Cyber attack campaigns. Mirai is a kind of malware that turns connected devices into remotely controlled devices called Bots.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The SiteLock research team has investigated the types of attacks WordPress users can expect in 2016. Attackers will continue to exploit vulnerable WordPress installs to serve spam or redirect unsuspecting users to malicious sites in 2016. Let’s take a look…. Continued Spam Attacks. Brute Force Attacks. Defacements.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2020

Fbot is one of the Mirai’s variants, and Mirai is the Linux malware that originally has been detected in August 2016 by the same team who wrote the last analysis mentioned above. This wave is a significant timeline as a technology step-up for DDoS botnet and IoT malware development.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Satori was originally based on the leaked source code for Mirai , a powerful IoT botnet that first appeared in the summer of 2016 and was responsible for some of the largest denial-of-service attacks ever recorded (including a 620 Gbps attack that took KrebsOnSecurity offline for almost four days ). phone and broadband provider TalkTalk.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The expert pointed out that every firmware developed since 2016 has been tested and found to be vulnerable. It tries to drop a downloader that exhibits infection behavior and that also executes Moobot, which is a DDoS botnet based on Mirai.” Moobot is a DDoS botnet that supports multiple attack methods.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2019

The American hacktivist Martin Gottesfeld (34) has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for carrying out DDoS attacks against two healthcare organizations in the US in 2014. The DDoS attack was launched to authorities, the DDoS attack aimed at the hospital was powered by tens of thousands of bots. ” reported the Reuters.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This group has targeted WADA in the past, specifically during the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. One presumes the Olympics network is sufficiently protected against the more pedestrian DDoS attacks and the like, but who knows? The most recent Fancy Bear leak exposed details about a Canadian pole vaulter's positive results for cocaine.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2018

million in compensation for DDoS attacks against the systems of Rutgers University. million in compensation for DDoS attacks against the systems of Rutgers University. Paras Jha (22), the author of the Mirai botnet has been sentenced to six months of house arrest and ordered to pay $8.6

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

The Mirai botnet was first discovered in August 2016 by the MalwareMustDie researcher Mirai source code , two months later its source code was leaked online. Since 2016, security experts have discovered numerous variants of the Mirai botnet such as Masuta , Okiru , Satori , Mukashi , SORA , and Tsunami.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

There’s a lot of buzz going around in many online communities concerning the recent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks the world has witnessed. In Part One we’re going to look at the differences between a denial of service (DoS) and a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Photo credit US Army Spc.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Dark web services: DDoS attacks, botnets, and zero-day IoT vulnerabilities Of all IoT-related services offered on the dark web, DDoS attacks are worth examining first. See translation I’m the world’s best-known DDoS attacker for hire (getting ahead of myself here). Our advantages: 1. Tested, tried.

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Elie

AUGUST 18, 2017

The Mirai botnet, composed primarily of embedded and IoT devices, took the Internet by storm in late 2016 when it overwhelmed several high-profile targets with massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 15, 2023

These include ransomware targeting backend servers, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, destructive malware, and even weaponizing charging stations to deploy malware. Notably, in 2016, Nissan suspended a remote telematics system in its all-electric hatchback, the Leaf, due to a vulnerability in the NissanConnect app’s server.

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