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. Top 10 countries from which Kaspersky traps were hit by Telnet password attacks is led by Brazil, China, and Japan. In 2017 there were ten times more than in 2016.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2024

Kivimäki initially gained notoriety as a self-professed member of the Lizard Squad , a mainly low-skilled hacker group that specialized in DDoS attacks. Ransom_man bragged about Vastaamo’s sloppy security, noting the company had used the laughably weak username and password “root/root” to protect sensitive patient records.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

This was more than a multi-password via ssh exploit, and there was no ransom. I wrote about the company in 2015 after it suffered a debilitating distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack after Romero declined to pay a ransom demand from an online extortion group. . “Every VM [virtual machine] is lost. Just attack and destroy.”

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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!) pic.twitter.com/MJu9FDphWS — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) June 30, 2018.

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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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SecureWorld News

JULY 30, 2020

For the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), this was the final straw that led to a new warning about 'more destructive' DDoS attacks. FBI warning addresses DDoS amplification attacks. In a recent Private Industry Notification , the FBI warned businesses to watch out for DDoS amplification.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

com) with links to the bot was among the 48 domains associated with DDoS-for-hire services seized by the FBI in December. The most recent variant spotted by Microsoft spreads by exploiting vulnerabilities in Apache and Apache Spark ( CVE-2021-42013 and CVE-2022-33891 respectively) and also supports new DDoS attack capabilities.

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and ransomware dominated, making up for more than half the observed incidents. The EU GDPR text makes this clear, but the Dutch privacy regulator had taken a different view back in 2018, and issued a €525,000 fine. Links we liked NIST updates and simplifies longstanding password guidelines.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Also in 2018, 27-year-old Arkansas resident Taylor Huddleston was sentenced to three years in jail for making and selling the “NanoCore RAT,” which was being used to spy on webcams and steal passwords from systems running the software. Canadian investigators don’t appear to be buying Revesz’ claims.

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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

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

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

DECEMBER 25, 2019

A new Mozi P2P botnet is actively targeting Netgear, D-Link, and Huawei routers by probing for weak Telnet passwords to compromise them. Security experts from 360 Netlab spotted a new Mozi P2P botnet that is actively targeting Netgear, D-Link, and Huawei routers by probing for weak Telnet passwords to compromise them.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2018

In late 2016, the world witnessed the sheer disruptive power of Mirai , a powerful botnet strain fueled by Internet of Things (IoT) devices like DVRs and IP cameras that were put online with factory-default passwords and other poor security settings. no password). Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology Co., BLANK TO BANK.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The analysis of the code revealed that the MooBot bot will also send heartbeat messages to the C2 server and parse commands from C2 to start a DDoS attack on a specific IP address and port number. Researchers strongly recommend users of D-Link routers of applying patches and upgrades when possible. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

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 malware uses exploits for known vulnerabilities and password brute-forcing attacks for self-propagation.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Dailymotion forces password reset in response to credential stuffing Attack. Law enforcement worldwide hunting users of DDoS-for-Hire services. Reading the ENISA Threat Landscape Report 2018. Imperva mitigated DDoS attack generated 500 Million Packets per Second, the largest ever.

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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. In one week, the Scientology website is hit with 500 DDoS attacks. .

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2020

Early last year, it caught the attention of global cybersecurity experts by posting on one of the forums the sale of a database with 773 million e-mail addresses and 21 million unique passwords.” Sanix has been active on the cybercrime underground at least since 2018, he focuses in the sale of stolen data from organizations.

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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. Experts defined DirtyMoe as a complex malware that has been designed as a modular system. The executioner loads two modules, a Monero miner and a module for worming replication.

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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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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

You can start by learning about the three common cybersecurity threats that all small business owners should be prepared for: malware, vulnerabilities, and DDoS attacks. They are easy to spot and fairly common, accounting for 18% of malware files in Q1 2018. In fact, 33% of all businesses hit with a DDoS attack in 2017 were SMBs.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Incapsula , is a CDN service designed to protect customers’ website from all threats and mitigate DDoS attacks. These included: email addresses hashed and salted passwords “. Laked data included email addresses and hashed and salted passwords for all Cloud WAF customers who registered before 15th September 2017.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

While security experts have been aware of printer vulnerabilities for quite a while, even previous large-scale attacks on printers like the Stackoverflowin hack in 2017 and the PewDiePie hack in 2018 did not seem to shock the public into securing their networked devices. Change the default password.

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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. Hold training sessions to help employees manage passwords and identify phishing attempts. DDoS Attacks.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Here are our top 4 cybersecurity tips your business can deploy now to get proactive on preventing data breaches , site defacement, DDoS attacks and other threats that put your sites at risk. Why are DDoS attacks so important to prevent? Stop threats before they spread with automated website scanning and malware removal.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Apollon ([link] is a classic escrow market founded in March 2018 with a total listing of more 54,000 items as of January 2020. On January 28, just after the Dread (a Reddit-style forum on the deep web) , an attacker started launching massive DDoS attacks against the Dread, Envoy, The Hub, and other forums.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2019

DDoS Attacks Will Become More Common. In the third quarter of 2018, DDoS attacks increased in frequency by 71 percent over the previous quarter. Although some forms of biometric technology can be fallible under the right circumstances, they’re a generally more robust form of security than many others, including passwords.

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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. We continue to chip away at the password, however, removing passwords as the primary factor will take a bit more time than I originally thought.

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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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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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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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SecureWorld News

JULY 17, 2024

These could range from DDoS attacks to more subtle tactics like phishing and ransomware. Evaluate threat scenarios: Consider various threat scenarios, including DDoS attacks, phishing campaigns, and insider threats. Identify critical assets: Determine which systems and data are most critical to the successful operation of the Olympics.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 22, 2021

Using 61 username-passwords that were standard defaults for IoT devices, attackers could access hundreds of thousands of unsecured IoT devices. The Mirari botnet, a massive DDoS attack , left the internet inaccessible for much of the eastern U.S. ” Also Read: How to Stop DDoS Attacks: 6 Tips for Fighting DDoS Attacks.

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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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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

After 2018, we observed falling detection rates for FinSpy for Windows. Melcoz had been active in Brazil since at least 2018, before expanding overseas. The malware steals passwords from browsers and from the device’s memory, providing remote access to capture internet banking access. logins, passwords, etc.),

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