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Massive DDoS attack brought down 25% Iranian Internet connectivity

Security Affairs

Iran comes under cyber-attack again, a massive offensive brought down a large portion of the Iranian access to the Internet. Iran infrastructures are under attack, a massive cyberattack brought down a large portion of the Iranian access to the Internet, according to the experts the national connectivity fell to 75%.

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Bomb Threat, DDoS Purveyor Gets Eight Years

Krebs on Security

and United Kingdom, running a service that launched distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and for possessing sexually explicit images of minors. The Justice Department says Vaughn and his gang ran a DDoS-for-hire service that they used to shake down victims. The DDoS-for-hire service run by Apophis Squad listed their members.

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MY TAKE: Why DDoS weapons will proliferate with the expansion of IoT and the coming of 5G

The Last Watchdog

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. DDoS attacks aren’t going to go away anytime soon. Beyond DDoS. A10 Networks’ report found 6.3

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Mirai-based DDoS botnet IZ1H9 added 13 payloads to target routers

Security Affairs

A Mirai-based DDoS botnet tracked as IZ1H9 has added thirteen new exploits to target routers from different vendors, including D-Link, Zyxel, and TP-Link. Netis WF2419: CVE-2019-19356 , a Remote Code Execution (RCE) issue through the tracert diagnostic tool because caused by the lack of user input sanitizing.

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New Lucifer DDoS botnet targets Windows systems with multiple exploits

Security Affairs

Upon infecting a system the bot turns it into a cryptomining client and could use it to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The malware author named the bot Satan DDoS, but Palo Alto Network’s Unit42 researchers dubbed it Lucifer because there’s another malware with the same name, the Satan Ransomware.

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How to Stop a DDoS Attack on Your Website

SiteLock

In a matter of minutes, a distributed denial-of-service — or DDoS — attack can bring your website traffic to a grinding halt. DDoS attacks are growing in both size and frequency. Major attacks saw a 967% increase between the first quarter of 2018 and the first quarter of 2019. Why Is a DDoS Attack Destructive?

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Developer of DDoS Mirai based botnets sentenced to prison

Security Affairs

A man accused to have developed distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnets based on the Mirai botnet was sentenced to 13 months in federal prison. Schuchman compromised hundreds of thousands of IoT devices, including home routers and IP cameras, to create multiple DDoS IoT botnets that he rented to carry out the attacks.

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