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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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

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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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2019

A couple of high-profile distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks will surely go down in history as watershed events – each for different reasons. Related: IoT botnets now available for economical DDoS blasts. DDoS attacks aren’t going to go away anytime soon. Beyond DDoS. A10 Networks’ report found 6.3

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

On Thursday evening, KrebsOnSecurity was the subject of a rather massive (and mercifully brief) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. But on Thursday DDoS protection firm Qrator Labs identified the culprit — “Meris” — a new IoT monster that first emerged at the end of June 2021. In its Aug.

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2023

The activity is associated with a known DDoS botnet tracked as AndoryuBot that first appeared in February 2023. The bot supports multiple DDoS attack techniques and uses SOCKS5 proxies for C2 communications.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

My first association with IoT was way back in 2016. Many DDoS attacks and […]. We were then working on developing an IoT-based solution for monitoring blood banks. Security was on the table but it was not a big priority for many businesses back then as I found out from my interactions with many IoT experts.

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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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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2022

Operators behind the Mirai-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet Beastmode (aka B3astmode) added exploits for Totolink routers. The Mirai -based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet Beastmode (aka B3astmode) now includes exploits for Totolink routers. CVE-2017-17215 targets Huawei HG532 routers.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 15, 2021

As a real-life example, in October 2016, a DDoS attack caused infected IoT devices to overload [.]. IoT devices frequently perform a series of collect, exchange, process, and react to data tasks. This exposes them to security issues related to vulnerabilities that IoT devices encounter.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks cause problems for organizations of all sizes. To fight DDoS attacks, organizations and teams need to implement the three standard phases for any IT threat: preparation, reaction, and recovery. To skip ahead, click on the links: What is a DDoS Attack? Types of DDoS Attacks.

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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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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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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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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

MAY 15, 2022

The IT Company that has been assigned the task to looking into the digital operations of the online voting systems related to the singing contest have declared it officially, that they were registering fake web traffic onto their website and it could be a resultant of the constant Ddos threats emerging from hackers working for Russian Intelligence.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 11, 2022

From March this year, Moscow indulged in disinformation spread, DDoS attacks on Ukraine and other hacktivists related campaigns. To those unaware of the past developments, Russia’s cyber forces used similar wiper software against Ukraine in 2016 and 2017 during NotPetya and Industroyer cyber incidents.

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Threatpost

MARCH 19, 2018

Threatpost's Tom Spring sits down with Flashpoint and Akamai to discuss how the two companies worked together to address the 2016 Mirai DDoS attacks.

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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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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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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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SC Magazine

MARCH 3, 2021

DDoS attacks are an issue. The official BlackLivesMatter (BLM) website has been repeatedly targeted by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks following its registration in late 2014. Cyberattacks increase after major racial incidents.

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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

com) with links to the bot was among the 48 domains associated with DDoS-for-hire services seized by the FBI in December. The most recent variant spotted by Microsoft spreads by exploiting vulnerabilities in Apache and Apache Spark ( CVE-2021-42013 and CVE-2022-33891 respectively) and also supports new DDoS attack capabilities.

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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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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Some of the most common attacks cybercriminals use to breach higher education institutions are hacking, malware and DDoS attacks. Take it from Rutgers University, which experienced six DDoS attacks in 2015. percent for the 2015-2016 school year to pay for an increase in their IT cybersecurity budget. Hacking Your College Campus.

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