Security Boulevard

MAY 31, 2023

Throughout the day we will have a chance to meet dozens of more than 350 strategic buyers and […] The post Seceon to Participate In AGC Partners’ 2017 Boston Technology Growth Conference appeared first on Seceon. The post Seceon to Participate In AGC Partners’ 2017 Boston Technology Growth Conference appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 31, 2023

Throughout the day we will have a chance to meet dozens of more than 350 strategic buyers and […] The post Seceon to Participate In AGC Partners’ 2017 Boston Technology Growth Conference appeared first on Seceon. The post Seceon to Participate In AGC Partners’ 2017 Boston Technology Growth Conference appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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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. 12, 2017, an advertising on the ExoStresser website ( exostress.in) said that the booter service alone had launched 1,367,610 DDoS attacks, and caused targeted victim computer systems to suffer 109,186.4

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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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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

You may have heard the acronym DDoS before, but what is it and how can a DDoS attack impact your website? In a DDoS attack, cybercriminals use hacked networks to flood internet servers with traffic, sending more requests than the server can handle. How to Tell if a Site Is Under a DDoS Attack. How to Respond to DDoS.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 24, 2018

Major DDoS attacks cost some organizations more than $100,000 in 2017, according to a new NETSCOUT Arbor report.

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Tech Republic Security

MAY 2, 2017

quadrillion bits of data are created every day. A new study by cybersecurity firm Neustar shows how weaponized data results in more powerful and frequent attacks.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 28, 2020

The United Kingdom’s anti-cybercrime agency is running online ads aimed at young people who search the Web for services that enable computer crimes, specifically trojan horse programs and DDoS-for-hire services. ’s National Crime Agency , which saw success with a related campaign for six months starting in December 2017.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2022

Major Taiwan government websites were temporarily forced offline by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks attacks during the visit to Taipei of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The post Taiwan Government websites suffered DDoS attacks during the Nancy Pelosi visit appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Heimadal Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

A new variant of the Mirai-based Medusa DDoS (distributed denial of service) botnet has been discovered in the wild, equipped with a ransomware module and a Telnet brute-forcer.

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Tech Republic Security

AUGUST 2, 2017

In 2017, Q2 saw a DDoS attack that lasted 277 hours, according to a new report from Kaspersky Lab. Here's how to keep your company safe.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Bitcoin Core Software fixed a critical DDoS attack vulnerability in the Bitcoin Core wallet software tracked as CVE-2018-17144. The bug seems to have been introduced in March 2017, but no one apparently has exploited the flaw in live attacks. It has been estimated that a successful DDoS attack on the BTC network would cost miners 12.5

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2019

China is accused to have used the “Great Cannon” DDoS tool to launch attacks against LIHKG , a forum used by Hong Kong residents to organize protests. The last time the Great Cannon was used by the Chinese authorities was in 2017 when it was involved in DDoS attacks on the Mingjingnews.com site, a US-based Chinese media outlet.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Webstresser.org (formerly Webstresser.co), as it appeared in 2017. “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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Dark Reading

APRIL 26, 2018

While North American targets have historically been on the receiving end of the majority of DDoS attacks since their inception, that trend changed in 2017.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The attackers are targeting Edgewater Networks’ devices by exploiting the CVE-2017-6079 vulnerability with a relatively unique mount file system command. The bot supports the following functions: Self updating Port scanning File management DDoS attack Reverse SHELL Execute arbitrary commands.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

A 20-year-old Illinois man has pleaded guilty to running multiple DDoS-for-hire services that launched millions of attacks over several years. But Usatyuk’s involvement in the DDoS-for-hire space very much predates that period. Booter Master ” — was heavily involved in helping to launch crippling DDoS attacks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2020

According to ZDNet that first published the news, the list was leaked on a popular hacking forum by the operator of a DDoS booter service. “As ZDNet understands, the list was published online by the maintainer of a DDoS-for-hire (DDoS booter ) service.” ” reported ZDNet. ” reported ZDNet.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

. “Chaos functionality includes the ability to enumerate the host environment, run remote shell commands, load additional modules, automatically propagate through stealing and brute forcing SSH private keys, as well as launch DDoS attacks.” ” reads the analysis published by Lumen Technologies. ” continues the report.

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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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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The so-called Fancy Bear group, or APT28, began its operations in late 2017 --­ according to Trend Micro and Threat Connect , two private cybersecurity firms­ -- eventually publishing documents in 2018 outlining the political tensions between IOC officials and World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) officials who are policing Olympic athletes.

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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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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. The botnet targets multiple architectures, including arm, bsd, x64, and x86.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

That's a 35 percent increase over the previous quarter.

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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 2, 2024

The Windows botnet has been active since late 2017, it was mainly used to mine cryptocurrency, but it was also involved in DDoS attacks in 2018. Experts defined DirtyMoe as a complex malware that has been designed as a modular system.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2019

The attackers are leveraging a still-unpatched zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-6526 , to gain full control over the targeted systems. The vulnerability in dnaLIMS was reported to the vendor in 2017, but it is still unpatched. As a result,the number of such devices is not very high and might not help greatly in DDoS.”

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Related: How 5G will escalate DDoS attacks Caught in the pull of digital transformation , companies are routing ever more core operations and services through the Internet, or, more precisely, through IP addresses, of one kind or another. Meanwhile, DDoS attacks are renowned for causing massive outages.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 1, 2022

So, cyber crooks are always on the prowl for such vulnerable devices, as they can use them to launch DDoS attacks, track their ex-partners to domestically abuse them and create havoc online. s Rocio Concha, the director of Privacy and Advocacy, on Twitter, Amazon responded to the alert on a positive note. NOTE- Which?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

“This trojan can use your PC for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks without your knowledge.” ” reads the advisory published by Microsoft. The IT giant immediately advised the Ukrainian government about the ongoing attacks and provided it with technical advice on how to detect and neutralize the malicious code. .

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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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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. “The second attack was launched to delay his calculus exam.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The overall number of attacks rose by 15.6 percent over the previous quarter.

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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.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Once the attacker gains control of a vulnerable device in this manner, they could take advantage by including the newly compromised devices in their botnet to conduct further attacks such as DDoS.” ” concludes the report. “Therefore, it is highly recommended that patches and updates are applied when possible.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2023

” The experts believe threat actors exploited an old Struts2 vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-5638 , while targeting a financial company. . “This threat (ab)uses the NKN public blockchain protocol to carry out a large set of flooding attacks and act as a backdoor inside Linux systems.”

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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. million in compensation for DDoS attacks against the systems of Rutgers University.

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