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

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

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

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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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. Top 10 countries from which Kaspersky traps were hit by Telnet password attacks is led by Brazil, China, and Japan.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

From 2017 to 2019, the FBI says credential stuffing attacks were the most common type of attack against the financial sector, accounting for 41% of total incidents. According to a 2020 case study on one of the firms, security researchers identified more than 1,500 email addresses and 6,000 passwords exposed in more than 80 data breaches.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2019

WizzAir informed customers it forced a password reset on their accounts. Kazakhstan wants to intercept all HTTPS Internet traffic of its citizens. WSJ says Equifax to Pay $700 million settlement for 2017 breach. Stock trading service Robinhood stored passwords in plaintext for some users.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 19, 2023

Since then Portnox continued to add capabilities, launched the first cloud-native NAC in 2017, and now offers a NAC SaaS solution, Portnox Cloud. For example, encryption keys, administrator passwords, and other critical information are stored in the Azure Key Vault in FIPS 140-2 Level 2-validated hardware security modules (HSMs).

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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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SecureList

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Q4 2021 saw the appearance of several new DDoS botnets. A zombie network, named Abcbot by researchers, first hit the radar in July, but at the time it was little more than a simple scanner attacking Linux systems by brute-forcing weak passwords and exploiting known vulnerabilities.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

We assume that those who called the numbers were asked to provide the login and password for the service that the scammers were imitating, or to pay for some diagnostics and troubleshooting services. Interestingly, the cybercriminals did not limit their threats to DDoS. Reputation, bitcoins or your life? Messengers targeted.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Press is great for raising awareness of the project, but it has also quite literally DDoS'd the service with the Martin Lewis Money Show in the UK knocking it offline in 2016. 🤣", the internet quipped. Passwords This was never on the cards originally. So, in 2017, Pwned Passwords was born.

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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. The attack may have approached a volume of 1.2

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

If the victim organization is slow to pay up, even though its files are encrypted and some of its confidential data has been stolen, the attackers additionally threaten to carry out a DDoS attack. In addition to DDoS attacks, it has added spam and calls to clients and partners of the victim company to its toolbox. Local threats.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2020

Justice Department today criminally charged a Canadian and a Northern Ireland man for allegedly conspiring to build botnets that enslaved hundreds of thousands of routers and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices for use in large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. — pleaded guilty in Sept.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

used the password 225948. NEROWOLFE A search on the ICQ number 669316 at Intel 471 shows that in April 2011, a user by the name NeroWolfe joined the Russian cybercrime forum Zloy using the email address d.horoshev@gmail.com , and from an Internet address in Voronezh, RU. Another domain registered to that phone number was stairwell[.]ru

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

To perform the experiment, we used Internet of Things (IoT) search engines to search for open devices that utilized common printer ports and protocols. After filtering out most of the false positives, we were left with more than 800,000 printers that had network printing features enabled and were accessible over the internet.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In 2017, more than 300,000 WordPress websites were affected by a malicious plugin that allowed an attacker to place embedded hidden links on victim websites. Always change the default passwords for any IoT devices you install before extended use. with no internet. Bots and Botnets. Examples of Botnet Malware Attacks.

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

This post provides a retrospective analysis of Mirai — the infamous Internet-of-Things botnet that took down major websites via massive distributed denial-of-service using hundreds of thousands of compromised Internet-Of-Things devices. distributed Denial of service attacks (DDoS). OVH DDoS attack. Krebs on Security.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

There appeared the new Qlocker family, which packs user files into a password-protected 7zip archive, plus our old friends ech0raix and AgeLocker began to gather steam. Also seen in Q2 was the similar vulnerability CVE-2017-11882 , which causes a buffer overflow on the stack in the same component. Attacks on NAS devices. Local threats.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The former threatened files accessible from the internet over SMB protocol and protected by a weak account password. Threats that target NAS remain prominent, so we recommend keeping these devices inaccessible from the internet to ensure maximum safety of your data. Attacks via web resources. Local threats.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

It allows an unprivileged user to copy all the registry threads, including SAM, through the shadow copy mechanism, potentially exposing passwords and other critical data. As before, server attacks relying on brute-forcing of passwords to various network services, such as MS SQL, RDP, etc., stand out among Q3 2021 network threats.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Security services and tools include anti-DDoS , SOCaaS , web application firewalls (WAF), data encryption , and more. With the EDB PostgreSQL Advanced Server, clients gain features like password profiles, enhanced audit logging, and data redaction. Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Microsoft Azure.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

When it comes to network threats, this quarter continued to show how cybercriminals often resort to the technique of brute-forcing passwords to gain unauthorized access to various network services, the most popular of which are MSSQL, RDP and SMB. Similar IoT-threat statistics are published in the DDoS report for Q1 2022.

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SecureList

JULY 27, 2023

The implant allows attackers to browse and modify device files, get passwords and credentials stored in the keychain, retrieve geo-location information, as well as execute additional modules, further extending their control over the compromised devices.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

On the modern Internet, malware is a near-constant presence. Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the precursor of the modern Internet we know, love, and sometimes hate. Worms and the Dawn of the Internet Age: 1987-2000. Want to Learn More About Malware?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

However, hacking did not always involve computers or networks, and its history is much older than the internet era. The first computer password was created in 1961, when Fernando Corbató and his team at MIT created the Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS). Computer security was in its infancy in the 60s.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1962 — Allan Scherr — MIT sets up the first computer passwords, for student privacy and time limits. Student Allan Scherr makes a punch card to trick the computer into printing off all passwords and uses them to log in as other people after his time runs out. She connects him to any phone number he requests for free.

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