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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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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NopSec

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The year 2016 will be remembered for some big moments in the world of cybersecurity: the largest known distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, a phishing attack on a United States presidential candidate’s campaign, and ransomware attacks on major healthcare organizations are just a few. 2017 will see major advancements in technology.

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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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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

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

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 Go-based botnet spreads by exploiting two dozen security vulnerabilities in the internet of things (IoT) devices and other applications. The IT giant is tracking this cluster of threat activity as DEV-1061.

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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

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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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

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

Starting from June 12, 2019, the researcher Ankit Anubhav from NewSky Security, observed threat actors targeting Web-based DNA sequencer applications. The attackers are leveraging a still-unpatched zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-6526 , to gain full control over the targeted systems. IP address that is located in Iran.

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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 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. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 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. HTTP flooding module. UDP flood module.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2019

Cybersecurity firm Imperva disclosed a data breach that has exposed sensitive information for some customers of its Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) product, formerly known as Incapsula. Incapsula , is a CDN service designed to protect customers’ website from all threats and mitigate DDoS attacks essential infrastructure.

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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. The bot used a user-mode rootkit to hide the malicious process and malicious registry entries created.

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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. Polish authorities charged Russian and Belarusian individuals with spying for the Russian military intelligence service (GRU).

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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. Experts defined DirtyMoe as a complex malware that has been designed as a modular system.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2019

In August, cybersecurity firm Imperva disclosed a data breach that exposed sensitive information for some customers of its Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) product, formerly known as Incapsula. Incapsula , is a CDN service designed to protect customers’ website from all threats and mitigate DDoS attacks.

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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. Experts defined DirtyMoe as a complex malware that has been designed as a modular system.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Security experts from 360 Netlab spotted a new Mozi P2P botnet that is actively targeting Netgear, D-Link, and Huawei routers by probing for weak Telnet passwords to compromise them. The botnet implements a custom extended Distributed Hash Table (DHT) protocol that provides a lookup service similar to a hash table ([key, value]).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The Mozi botnet was spotted by security experts from 360 Netlab, at the time of its discovered it was actively targeting Netgear, D-Link, and Huawei routers by probing for weak Telnet passwords to compromise them. According to the researchers, in the last months of 2019, the botnet was mainly involved in DDoS attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Regardless of how familiar you are with Information Security, you’ve probably come across the term ‘malware’ countless times. From accessing your business-critical resources and sensitive information to halting business operations and services, a malware infection can quickly become an organization’s worst nightmare come true.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2020

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

The group is also the author of the NotPetya ransomware that hit hundreds of companies worldwide in June 2017. ” The CyberArmyofRussia_Reborn Telegram channel was used by Russia-linked actors to leak stolen data and carry out DDoS attacks against selected targets.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2021

Port 37215: Huawei Home routers RCE Vulnerability (CVE-2017-17215). The botnet was designed to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks like the original Mirai bot. Port 34567: DVR scanner attempting default credentials for Sofia main video application.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

Regardless of how familiar you are with Information Security, you’ve probably come across the term ‘malware’ countless times. From accessing your business-critical resources and sensitive information to halting business operations and services, a malware infection can quickly become an organization’s worst nightmare come true.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2019

Microsoft warns of spam campaign exploiting CVE-2017-11882 flaw. Massive DDos attack hit Telegram, company says most of junk traffic is from China. CIA sextortion campaign, analysis of a well-organized scam. CVE-2019-12735 – opening a specially crafted file in Vim or Neovim Editor could compromise your Linux system.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2019

Although those make up a small percentage of overall attacks, they took 500 times longer to resolve in 2017 than the previous year. But, the expenses climb dramatically for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The very nature of the financial industry and the money it handles make the sector ripe for a cyberattack.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Compared to its predecessors, the sixth “Hi-Tech Crime Trends” report is the first to contain chapters devoted to the main industries attacked and covers the period from H2 2018 to H1 2019, as compared to the period from H2 2017 to H1 2018. The same can be said of BIOS/UEFI-related attacks, side channel attacks, and supply chain attacks.

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

Botnet owners (botmasters) sell access to the victim machines in bulk as a resource that can be monetized in many ways, such as organizing DDoS attacks, distributing spam or, in the case of ransomware, by piggybacking on this initial infection to get a foothold in a potential target. Access sellers.

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