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

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

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. “Recently, a new infection vector that cracks Windows machines through SMB password brute force is on the rise” reads the analysis published by AVAST.

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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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Troy Hunt

JULY 6, 2018

For now though, here's this week's update which talks through many of the issues covered in those tweets not just as it relates to HTTPS, but also beer, MD5 password hashes, giving another party access to your Gmail (hint: it actually gives them access to your Gmail!) Egypt didn't just censor the internet. References.

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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. LFI CVE-2018-16763 Fuel CMS 1.4.1 LFI CVE-2018-16763 Fuel CMS 1.4.1

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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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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2018

What do we do with a company that regularly pumps metric tons of virtual toxic sludge onto the Internet and yet refuses to clean up their act? no password). And because users are not required to set a secure password in the initial setup phase, it is likely that a large number of devices are accessible via these default credentials.

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Responsible Cyber

APRIL 8, 2020

Small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly at risk of cyber-attacks, and often serve as a launch pad for larger threat campaigns, according to Cisco’s 2018 SMB Cybersecurity Report. The Internet of Things (IoT) is undeniably the future of technology. DDoS Attacks. IoT Opens Excessive Entry Points.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Duke-Cohan sentenced to three years in prison due to false bomb threats and DDoS. New threat actor SandCat exploited recently patched CVE-2018-8611 0day. Which are the worst passwords for 2018? WordPress botnet composed of +20k installs targets other sites. A new Mac malware combines a backdoor and a crypto-miner.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Controls can be anything from good password hygiene to web application firewalls and internal network segmentation, a layered approach that reduces risk at each step. Storing sensitive information such as passwords, credit card numbers, or social security numbers in cookies is discouraged due to the potential risk of exposure.

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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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SC Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

That represents a 340% increase year-over-year, a 415% increase since 2018 and accounted for about 4% of the more than 6.3 This week, cybersecurity firm Akamai said they have observed more than 246 million web application attacks levied against the gaming industry between 2019 and 2020. The post Attacks against game companies are up.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

In direct response to the publication of Radware’s analysis of the new discovery of the DemonBot malware strain effecting Hadoop clusters earlier the week, October 25th, 2018, 0x20k of Ghost Squad Hackers has released the full source code of the 0day exploit used to build his newest model; the FICORA Botnet.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2018

. “Like any other IoT device, these robot vacuum cleaners could be marshalled into a botnet for DDoS attacks, but that’s not even the worst-case scenario, at least for owners. “The vulnerability resides in the REQUEST_SET_WIFIPASSWD function (UDP command 153).

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

And as stated by a Harris Poll conducted in 2018 , more than 60 million Americans are affected by identity theft every year. According to security industry professionals, cyber criminals will access 33 billion records per year by 2023, a dramatic increase from the reported 12 billion or so breaches in 2018. Learn from the past.

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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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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The vulnerability is in MSHTML, the Internet Explorer engine. After 2018, we observed falling detection rates for FinSpy for Windows. Melcoz had been active in Brazil since at least 2018, before expanding overseas. However, it never actually went away – it was simply using various first-stage implants to hide its activities.

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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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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. In 2018, authorities with the U.K.’s

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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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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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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

KrebsOnSecurity began revisiting the research into Rescator’s real-life identity in 2018, after the U.S. When ChronoPay’s internal emails were leaked in 2010, the username and password for its MegaPlan subscription were still working and valid. At the time, Ika also was the administrator of Pustota[.]pw

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BH Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The investigation began in December 2018 and the DPC’s draft decision two years later recommended a fine of €30-50 million. Passwords’ slow path to extinction. Two out of three bad practices listed by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are password-related. How good are your defences against DDoS?

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

Wazawaka spent his early days on Exploit and other forums selling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that could knock websites offline for about USD $80 a day. In 2018, Wazawaka registered a slew of domains spoofing the real domain for the Hydra dark web market. “Come, rob, and get dough! ” WHO IS WAZAWAKA?

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 5, 2021

In 2016, the Mirai IoT botnet shut down part of the internet, yet variations still plague us today. Vamosi: The internet. Vamosi: Dyn was an internet performance management and web application security company that has since been bought by Oracle. The results can be massive enough to bring down parts of the internet.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 6, 2023

For example, DDoS attacks and unauthorized encryption (e.g. Password stuffing, cracking, guessing, spraying. If the news media and the internet are leading us astray, maybe we can pinpoint what those influences are and systematically reduce our bias on those topics. 2018) "Causes of Death".

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 7, 2023

For example, DDoS attacks and unauthorized encryption (e.g. Password stuffing, cracking, guessing, spraying. If the news media and the internet are leading us astray, maybe we can pinpoint what those influences are and systematically reduce our bias on those topics. 2018) "Causes of Death".

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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. Microsoft Office exploits most often tried to utilize the memory corruption vulnerability CVE-2018-0802. Attacks on NAS devices. Number of new ransomware modifications.

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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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SecureWorld News

MAY 13, 2020

According to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), there are 36 cybercrime categories. Here is how we (CSN) define cybercrime: the kind of crime that is only happening because the internet exists [such as ransomware and DDoS attacks]. Someone may need technical support in resetting passwords, etc.,

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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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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2019

The Internet of Things is a remarkable benchmark in human technological advancement. Their way in was through the company’s internet-connected HVAC system. The whole of the internet sits on a perilous foundation. So many companies require nearly constant access to the internet to remain operational and solvent.

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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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