The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 27, 2018

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks continue to erupt all across the Internet showing not the faintest hint of leveling off, much less declining, any time soon. Related video: How DDoS attacks leverage the Internet’s DNA. This is borne out by Akamai Technologies’ Summer 2018 Internet Security/Web Attack Report.

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DDOS IoT Digital transformation Internet 255

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The seizure notice appearing on the homepage this week of more than a dozen popular “booter” or “stresser” DDoS-for-hire Web sites. Booter sites are dangerous because they help lower the barriers to cybercrime, allowing even complete novices to launch sophisticated and crippling attacks with the click of a button.

DNS 182

DNS Computers and Electronics Government Internet 182

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2023

As far back as 2018, Interisle found.US domains were the worst in the world for spam, botnet (attack infrastructure for DDOS etc.) “We’re always looking at the end malware or phishing page, but what we’re finding here is that there’s this middle layer of DNS threat actors persisting for years without notice.”

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Phishing Telecommunications Malware Scams 269

Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

In response to an inquiry from this office, the RCMP stopped short of naming names, but said “we can confirm that our National Division Cybercrime Investigative Team did execute a search warrant at a Toronto location last week.”. ” “I am not your A-typical computer geek, Brian,” he wrote in a 2018 email. “I

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Advertising Malware Marketing Software 220

Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2018

DDoS attacks, ransomware-based campaigns, cryptocurrency mining campaigns). “This C&C server has actually been active since 6 th March 2018 but didn’t attract attention because of the low capacity of the “black” botnet at that time. Malware actor publishes the address of the Bot-A in DNS (or using any other public channel).

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Malware DNS Encryption Banking 47

SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The DTLS (Datagram Transport Layer Security) protocol is used to establish secure connections over UDP, through which most DNS queries, as well as audio and video traffic, are sent. In December, Canada’s Laurentian University reported a DDoS attack. In early October, a DDoS attack was reported by the PUBG Mobile team.

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DDOS Cryptocurrency Marketing Internet 129

SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

In June, more than six months after DarkHalo had gone dark, we observed the DNS hijacking of multiple government zones of a CIS member state that allowed the attacker to redirect traffic from government mail servers to computers under their control – probably achieved by obtaining credentials to the control panel of the victims’ registrar.

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Malware Banking Energy and Utilities Accountability 86