The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2019

A couple of high-profile distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks will surely go down in history as watershed events – each for different reasons. Related: IoT botnets now available for economical DDoS blasts. His blog, Krebs on Security , was knocked down alright. DDoS attacks aren’t going to go away anytime soon.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

For example, this account at Medium has authored more than a dozen blog posts in the past year singing the praises of Tornote as a secure, self-destructing messaging service. Throughout 2023, Tornote was hosted with the Russian provider DDoS-Guard , at the Internet address 186.2.163[.]216. io seem like a legitimate website.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 30, 2021

Is your organization prepared to mitigate Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against mission-critical cloud-based applications? A DDoS attack is a cyber attack that uses bots to flood the targeted server or application with junk traffic, exhausting its resources and disrupting service for real human users. Source: Testbytes.

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Cisco Security

MAY 12, 2022

Threat actors picking sides [1], group members turning against each other [2], some people handing out DDoS tools [3], some people blending in to turn it into profit [4], and many other stories, proving that this new frontier is changing daily, and its direct impact is not limited to geographical boundaries. 02/2019-06/2020.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

Late last year, we became aware of a UEFI firmware-level compromise through logs from our firmware scanner (integrated into Kaspersky products at the start of 2019). The group uses various malware families, including Wroba, and attack methods that include phishing, mining, smishing and DNS poisoning.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

Subsequently, DDoS attacks hit several government websites. We named it BlackMoule, as we believe it is an update of BlackMould, a malicious tool that was briefly mentioned by Microsoft in late 2019 as part of GALLIUM activities against telecoms companies (aka Operation SoftCell).

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