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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Taiwan). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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

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.

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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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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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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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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.” SecurityAffairs – Telnet credentials, hacking).

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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

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.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, Chaos malware). ” 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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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. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, PurpleFox malware )

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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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, EnemyBot). LFI CVE-2018-16763 Fuel CMS 1.4.1

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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.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, FoxBlade). ” reads the advisory published by Microsoft. ” FoxBlade is the third malware that was discovered at this time which was involved in attacks against Ukrainian entities.

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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. ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransomware)

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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

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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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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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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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. Paras Jha, a 22-year-old computer whiz from Fanwood, N.J.,

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

Almost daily now there is news about flaws in commercial software that lead to computers getting hacked and seeded with malware. But the reality is most malicious software also has its share of security holes that open the door for security researchers or ne’er-do-wells to liberate or else seize control over already-hacked systems.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2020

This week, 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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Google TAG). Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2021

Talos experts noticed that a version released on May 18 included Python versions of EternalBlue ( CVE-2017-0144 ) and EternalRomance ( CVE-2017-0147 ) exploits with a Windows download command line as the payload. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Necro Python bot). ” continues the post. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2023

Polish authorities charged Russian and Belarusian individuals, who were arrested in April, with spying for the Russian military intelligence service (GRU) from 2017 to April 2022. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Poland). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2021

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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, botnet). Experts defined DirtyMoe as a complex malware that has been designed as a modular system. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2022

Botnet operators monetize their efforts via XMRig combined with DDoS-for-hire services. The bot includes exploits for Oracle WebLogic Server vulnerabilities CVE-2019-2725 and CVE-2017-10271 , and the Drupal RCE flaw tracked as CVE-2018-7600. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Muhstik botnet). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2020

SecurityAffairs – newsletter, hacking). Are Maze operators behind the attack on the IT services giant Cognizant? Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 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 16, 2021

Gafgyt also uses some of the existing exploits (CVE-2017-17215, CVE-2018-10561) to download the next stage payloads, which we will discuss further on. HTTP flooding is a kind of DDoS attack in which the attacker sends a large number of HTTP requests to the targeted server to overwhelm it. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Mirai).

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

years in a Russian penal colony for convincing one of his top affiliates to launch a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against a competitor that shut down the ticketing system for the state-owned Aeroflot airline. A Google-translated snippet of the hacked ChronoPay Confluence installation. Click to enlarge.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The bot included multiple tools to carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and scan for SQL injection weaknesses and other vulnerabilities, including privilege escalation issues. Security Affairs – Drupal, hacking ). Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2022

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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, botnet). Experts defined DirtyMoe as a complex malware that has been designed as a modular system. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Here are a few takeaways: Minimum requirements A few years back, a spate of seminal IoT hacks grabbed the full attention of governments worldwide. Mirai then carried out a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that knocked down Twitter, Netflix, PayPal and other major web properties.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2019

“As well as overturning Assange’s asylum status, Ecuador stripped him of the nationality he was given in 2017 under the government of Moreno’s predecessor Rafael Correa.” SecurityAffairs – Julian Assange, hacking). ” reported the AFP agency. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 4, 2022

A distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that temporarily knocked government websites offline accompanied by sporadic outages. Hacktivist activity includes: DDoS attacks against Russian sites: Major Russian websites were hit by a denial-of-service attack. Meanwhile a DDoS attack pummeled Russia's.ru Brooke Crothers.

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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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