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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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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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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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

. “As part of a detailed study of the cyber threat, a study of the received samples of malicious programs was conducted, the peculiarities of the functioning of the management server infrastructure were established, and more than 2,000 affected computers were identified in the Ukrainian segment of the Internet.”

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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. The list appears to be the result of an Internet scan for devices using default credentials or easy-to-guess passwords. ” reported ZDNet.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Experts from Qihoo 360’s Network Security Research Lab discovered a new botnet, dubbed EwDoor , that targets AT&T customers using EdgeMarc Enterprise Session Border Controller (ESBC) edge devices that are publicly exposed to the Internet. ” reads the analysis published by Qihoo 360.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) researchers discovered a new variant of the Zerobot botnet (aka ZeroStresser) that was improved with the capabilities to target more Internet of Things (IoT) devices. com) with links to the bot was among the 48 domains associated with DDoS-for-hire services seized by the FBI in December.

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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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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

New government rules coupled with industry standards meant to give formal shape to the Internet of Things (IoT) are rapidly quickening around the globe. The Mirai botnet, initially discovered in October 2016 , infected Internet-connected routers, cameras and digital video recorders at scale. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

A Pennsylvania man who operated one of the Internet’s longest-running online attack-for-hire or “booter” services was sentenced to five years probation today. Attorney Adam Alexander.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 26, 2018

million in restitution for repeatedly using Mirai to take down Internet services at Rutgers University , his former alma mater. In January 2017, almost a year before Jha’s arrest and guilty plea, KrebsOnSecurity identified Jha as the likely co-author of Mirai — which sprang to notoriety after a record-smashing Sept.

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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. The module that implements the warm capabilities was spotted scanning the internet and performing password brute-force attacks against Windows systems with SMB port open online.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2023

It is designed to address the limitations of current Internet infrastructure, which is centralized, inefficient, and vulnerable to censorship. ” The experts believe threat actors exploited an old Struts2 vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-5638 , while targeting a financial company. .

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Hear about the smart toaster that got attacked three times within an hour after its IP address first appeared on the Internet? Here are my key takeaways: Formula for poor practices Launched in 2017, Baffin Bay has attracted VC funding of $6.4 Meanwhile, DDoS attacks are renowned for causing massive outages.

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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

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

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. Now Avast researchers provided details of a DirtyMoe module that uses worm-like techniques to allow the threat to spread without user interaction.

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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.” At the time of publishing there is no news of data breach. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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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

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The requests were used by the attackers to download a Perl script to launch the Shellbot backdoor that leverages an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel as C&C. It costs a lot of time and money to find or buy a zero-day flaw — two resources cybercriminals are typically not willing to invest.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

MAY 17, 2017

At the same time, emerging threats, such as last year’s Mirai DDoS attacks, highlight the critical need to develop and apply guidance to maintain the cybersecurity of devices and the ecosystems into which they are deployed. NIST is accepting public comment on the new draft guidance through July 7, 2017.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2021

A new variant of the Mirai botnet, tracked as Moobot, was spotted scanning the Internet for vulnerable Tenda routers. Researchers from AT&T Alien Lab have spotted a new variant of the Mirai botnet, tracked asu Moobot, which was scanning the Internet for the CVE-2020-10987 remote code-execution (RCE) issue in Tenda routers.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Security experts from Trend Micro discovered that some machine-to-machine (M2M) protocols can be abused to attack IoT and industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems. “For data gathering, we played the role of a casual attacker with modest resources, scanning the internet for exposed MQTT brokers and CoAP hosts.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The three men, Josiah White (21) of Washington, Pennsylvania; Paras Jha (22), of Fanwood, New Jersey, and Dalton Norman (22), of Metairie, Louisiana , pleaded guilty in December 2017 to developing and running the dreaded Mirai botnet that was involved in several massive DDoS attacks. District Judge Timothy M. “On Dec.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A not-so-new attack vector Evidence collected and analyzed by GERT suggests that this attack exploited an old vulnerability related to Struts2 (CVE-2017-5638 – Apache Struts2), targeting a financial company. (#dm=@ognl.OgnlContext@DEFAULT_MEMBER_ACCESS).(#_memberAccess?(#_memberAccess=#dm):((#cont _memberAccess?(#_memberAccess=#dm):((#cont

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

According to the researchers, in the last months of 2019, the botnet was mainly involved in DDoS attacks. The botnet supports the following capabilities: DDoS attack Collecting Bot Information Execute the payload of the specified URL Update the sample from the specified URL Execute system or custom commands.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 22, 2021

billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Gartner defines the Internet of Things (IoT) as the network of physical objects that contain embedded technology for communication internally or externally. These internet-connected devices have found a way into every aspect of our lives, and in large part, have been an incredible innovation.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Gafgyt is a popular choice for launching large-scale DDoS attacks and it has been around since 2014, the latest variant borrows the code from the JenX botnet. “This payload is widely used to cause a Distributed reflection Denial of Service (DrDoS), which involves multiple victim machines that unwittingly participate in a DDoS attack.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

In the first six months of 2018, the experts observed a number of malware samples that was up three times as many samples targeting IoT devices as in the whole of 2017. In 2017 there were ten times more than in 2016. Experts highlighted that IoT malware is increasing both in quantity and quality. ” concludes Kaspersky.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

It also has different DDoS functionality. CVE-2017-6077. CVE-2017-18368. CVE-2017-6334. Ensure minimal exposure to the Internet on Linux servers and IoT devices and use a properly configured firewall. 4000898: AV EXPLOIT Netgear DGN2200 ping.cgi – Possible Command Injection ( CVE-2017-6077 ).

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Q4 2021 saw the appearance of several new DDoS botnets. In October, the botnet was upgraded with DDoS functionality. This is further evidence that the same botnets are often used for mining and DDoS. The bot infiltrated the devices through the CVE-2017-6079 vulnerability, which allows execution of arbitrary commands.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Q3 2021 brought two new DDoS attack vectors, potentially posing a serious threat, including for major web resources. ris , a new botnet capable of carrying out powerful DDoS attacks. For instance, a DDoS attack on a Cloudflare customer (attributed to M?ris) We won't let our #DDoS stop us doing what we love!

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2019

Kazakhstan wants to intercept all HTTPS Internet traffic of its citizens. WSJ says Equifax to Pay $700 million settlement for 2017 breach. Imperva blocked the largest Layer 7 DDoS attack it has ever seen. Hackers published a list of allegedly phished Discord login credentials. A new ProFTPD vulnerability exposes servers to hack.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Experts from Honeywell analyzed data collected with the Secure Media Exchange (SMX) , a product it has launched in 2017 and that was designed to protect industrial facilities from USB-borne threats. Of the malware discovered, 9% was designed to directly exploit flaws in the USB protocol or interface. ” continues the report.

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