Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

But the NCSC warns that it is likely that Sandworm is capable of compiling the same or very similar malware for other architectures and firmware. Among the latest attacks on Ukraine was a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Cyclops Blink has been found in WatchGuard’s firewall devices since at least June 2019.

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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

MARCH 18, 2019

Satori , Masuta , Wicked Mirai , JenX , Omni, and the OMG botnet are just the last variants appeared online in 2018. A variant discovered last year was leveraging an open-source project to target multiple architectures, including ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, and x86. The new Mirai variant targets embedded devices (i.e.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2019

Satori , Masuta , Wicked Mirai , JenX , Omni, and the OMG are just the last variants appeared online in 2018. Experts also identified a byte sequence indicative of a DDoS command sent from the C&C server via a UDP flood attack to target a specific IP address. ” continues the report. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

According to experts from Avast, the Torii bot has been active since at least December 2017, it could targets a broad range of architectures, including ARM, MIPS, x86, x64, PowerPC, and SuperH. The Torii IoT botnet stands out for the largest sets of architectures it is able to target. ” reads the analysis published by Avast.

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2019

The DoH protocol was a new standard proposed in October 2018 and it is currently supported by several publicly available DNS servers. Godlua is a DDoS bot that was already involved in attacks in the wild, such as the one that hit liuxiaobei[.]com Some web browsers, including Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox also support the DoH.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2018

2018 was the year of the Internet of Things (IoT), massive attacks and various botnets hit smart devices, These are 5 IoT Security Predictions for 2019. IoT Attacks in 2018. Yet, the major attack of 2018 was definitely VPNFilter, hitting over half a million devices, mostly routers, from a wide range of known vendors.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Experts observed working exploits for the CVE-2018-7600 in Drupal (aka Drupalgeddon2 ) and the CVE-2017-10271 in Oracle WebLogic, and CVE-2018-1273 in Spring Data Commons. The experts observed a second threat actor using the exploit for the CVE-2014-3120 to deliver a malicious code that is a derivative of the Bill Gates DDoS malware.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

However, there is a difference between the Mirai malware and the new malware variants using Go, including differences in the language in which it is written and the malware architectures. It also has different DDoS functionality. CVE-2018-10561, CVE-2018-10562. CVE-2018-10088. NETGEAR R6250 before 1.0.4.6.Beta,

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 8, 2021

The classic distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) tactic is still in use. However, a Google search turned up such proclamations for 2018, 2019, 2020, and even 2021. User and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) made significant strides as one way of determining trust in a zero-trust architecture. With 2020, protests came to the USA.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

The Outlaw Hacking Group was first spotted by TrendMicro in 2018 when the cyber criminal crew targeted automotive and financial industries. The first version spotted by TrendMicro includes a DDoS script that could be used by botmaster to set-up DDoS for-hire service offered on the dark web. Technical Analysis.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

Palo Alto Networks researchers discovered a new variant of the Mirai malware that is targeting more processor architectures than previous ones. Mirai botnet continues to be one of the most dangerous malware in the threat landscape, experts at Palo Alto Networks discovered a new variant that targets more processor architectures than before.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Applications have become more complex, their architecture better. By 2018, however, they had realized that it is far more profitable to target organizations — with ransomware, stealers or remote access tools for conducting financial operations from within the networks. Vulnerabilities market got a remake.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2022

DCRat first appeared in the threat landscape in 2018, but a year later it was redesigned and relaunched. The modular architecture of the malware allows to extend its functionalities for multiple malicious purposes, including surveillance, reconnaissance, information theft, DDoS attacks, and arbitrary code execution.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Muhstik is a botnet that is known to use web application exploits to compromise IoT devices, it has been around for at least 2018. Botnet operators monetize their efforts via XMRig, cgmining and with DDoS-for-hire services. . The payload is named “pty” followed by a number used to map the architecture.

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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. As for 2019, it has become the year of covert military operations in cyberspace.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 5, 2021

That would make this denial of service attack roughly twice as powerful as any similar previously recorded DDoS attack at the time. That said, there would not be any DDoS attack, and the targets, say, on the other hand, if you lock the traffic from the c&c server, you might not be infected. terabits per second.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

Subsequently, DDoS attacks hit several government websites. While we were unable to obtain the same results by analyzing the CERT-UA samples, we subsequently identified a different WhiteBlackCrypt sample matching the WhisperKill architecture and sharing similar code. We had initially analyzed this Delphi malware in April 2018.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

Already a leading SD-WAN pick, the HPE subsidiary boosted its market position with acquisitions of security vendor Cape Networks in 2018 and WAN specialist Silver Peak Systems in 2020. infographic from Cisco laying out its SD-WAN architecture. Barracuda Networks. Features: Juniper Session Smart Routers and SASE.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2019

A big part of this spending will go toward security talent acquisition, which will also see the addition of many more masters-level courses in IT architecture and cybersecurity. DDoS Attacks Will Become More Common. In the third quarter of 2018, DDoS attacks increased in frequency by 71 percent over the previous quarter.

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