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

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

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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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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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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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

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

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

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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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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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. Passwords This was never on the cards originally. So, in 2017, Pwned Passwords was born. And then ensured could never happen again.

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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

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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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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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

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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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

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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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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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

Yet the list of features and plugins advertised for this RAT includes functionality that goes significantly beyond what one might see in a traditional remote administration tool, such as DDoS-for-hire capabilities, and the ability to disable the light indicator on webcams so as not to alert the target that the RAT is active. “It

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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. A screen shot of the org chart from ChronoPay’s MegaPlan Intranet system.

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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

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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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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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The document contained a list of pornographic sites, along with passwords for access to said sites and would then spread itself and its NSFW content by emailing the first 50 people in the victim’s contact list. In July 2001, the Code Red Worm attempted to subject the entire Internet to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

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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

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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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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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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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The “ 2018 HISCOX Small Business Cyber Risk Report ” found that almost half of small businesses in the United States experienced cyberattacks within the last year. Choose strong passwords and unique usernames. This video can help illustrate the different security measures — and why you need to defend your site.

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Anton on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

A password manager claimed “zero trust for passwords” while a SIEM/UEBA vendor promised to reveal all zero trust secrets (I bet they use VPN internally…). An anti-DDoS vendor promised “better zero trust visibility.” A firewall management vendor claimed to “simplify zero trust.” Yet another proclaimed that ZTNA 1.1

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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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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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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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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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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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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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