Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Security researchers provided technical details about an IoT botnet dubbed Ttint that has been exploiting two zero-days in Tenda routers. Security researchers at Netlab, the network security division Qihoo 360, have published a report that details an IoT botnet dubbed Ttint. This botnet does not seem to be a very typical player.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2023

Since March 2023, researchers at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 have observed a new variant of the Mirai botnet targeting multiple vulnerabilities in popular IoT devices. “The widespread adoption of IoT devices has become a ubiquitous trend. As a result, protecting IoT devices against such threats becomes an urgent task.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

During the second half of 2022, a variant of the Mirai bot, tracked as V3G4, targeted IoT devices by exploiting tens of flaws. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers reported that a Mirai variant called V3G4 was attempting to exploit several flaws to infect IoT devices from July to December 2022. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2020

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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Dutch police warn customers of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) website of stopping using the service to avoid prosecution. Dutch police warn customers of a booter service, abused to carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, of to stop using it to avoid prosecution. by carrying out DDoS attacks on March 19.

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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

JULY 27, 2020

The FBI issued an alert last week warning about the discovery of new network protocols that have been exploited to launch large-scale DDoS attacks. The Federal Bureau of Investigation sent an alert last week warning about large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that abused new network protocols. continues the report.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2020

The availability online of a new collection of Telnet credentials for more than 500,000 servers, routers, and IoT devices made the headlines. According to ZDNet that first published the news, the list was leaked on a popular hacking forum by the operator of a DDoS booter service. ” reported ZDNet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 30, 2022

Why Healthcare IoT Requires Strong Machine Identity Management. The healthcare industry has been leveraging IoT devices for years, steadily increasing its use in facilities and patient care. By 2027, the IoT in Healthcare market is expected to reach $290 billion , up from just $60 billion in 2019. brooke.crothers.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

As most of us know, IoT devices are on the rise in enterprise networks. According to McKinsey & Company , the proportion of organizations that use IoT products has grown from 13 percent in 2014 to 25 percent today. The issue is that these tens of billions of new devices will likely amplify the inherent security risks of IoT.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2020

which is a product that became end-of-life (EOL) in 2015 and end-of-support-life (EOSL) in 2019.” The botnet borrows the code from Tsunami and Gafgyt botnets, it expanded the list of targeted devices and added new distributed denial of service (DDoS) capabilities. ” reads the analysis published by Palo Alto Networks.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

A security researcher disclosed zero-day flaws in Telestar Digital GmbH IoT radio devices that could be exploited by remote attackers to hijack systems without any user interaction. The vulnerabilities have been tracked as CVE-2019-13473 and CVE-2019-13474. . SecurityAffairs – IoT radio devices, hacking). .

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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

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Wi-Fi 6 officially arrived in late 2019, and Wi-Fi 6 enabled hardware was released throughout 2020. Ongoing attacks were discovered by Resecurity’s researchers while monitoring the activity of a threat actor know for targeting networks and IoT devices since early October 2021.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

There’s no doubt, the increasing use of telemedicine, the explosion of health-based cloud apps, and innovative medical IoT devices are improving the patient care experience. The largest privacy incident was reported in 2019 at American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), a third-party billing and collections company.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2021

Mozi is an IoT botnet that borrows the code from Mirai variants and the Gafgyt malware , it appeared on the threat landscape in late 2019. According to the researchers, in the last months of 2019, the botnet was mainly involved in DDoS attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Related: How 5G will escalate DDoS attacks Caught in the pull of digital transformation , companies are routing ever more core operations and services through the Internet, or, more precisely, through IP addresses, of one kind or another. Meanwhile, DDoS attacks are renowned for causing massive outages.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Deployed with more than 30 exploits, it has the potential of targeting millions of routers and IoT devices. It also has different DDoS functionality. CVE-2019-19824. Ensure minimal exposure to the Internet on Linux servers and IoT devices and use a properly configured firewall. Comtrend VR-3033 DE11-416SSG-C01_R02.A2pvI042j1.d26m.

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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. The botnet targets multiple architectures, including arm, bsd, x64, and x86.

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Threatpost

MAY 9, 2019

A video interview and Q&A with IoT specialist Dan Demeter of Kaspersky Lab.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

“Fast forwarded to October 11, 2019, our Anglerfish honeypot captured another suspicious ELF sample, and it turned out to be the Downloader of the previous suspicious ELF sample.” T he experts first spotted the Roboto botnet in August when they detected a suspicious ELF file. ” reads the analysis published by 360 Netlab.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2022

Muhstik is a botnet that is known to use web application exploits to compromise IoT devices, it has been around for at least 2018. Botnet operators monetize their efforts via XMRig combined with DDoS-for-hire services. “The payload used is a variant of Muhstik bot that can be used to launch DDOS attacks.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Attackers are hacking NSC Linear eMerge E3 building access systems to launch DDoS attacks. Sudo CVE-2019-18634 flaw allows Non-Privileged Linux and macOS Users run commands as Root. Google mistakenly shared private videos of some users with others in 2019. IoT devices at major Manufacturers infected with crypto-miner.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Mozi is an IoT botnet that borrows the code from Mirai variants and the Gafgyt malware , it appeared on the threat landscape in late 2019. According to the researchers, in the last months of 2019, the botnet was mainly involved in DDoS attacks.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The botnet appeared on the threat landscape in November 2020, the attacks aimed at compromising the target systems to create an IRC botnet, which can later be used to conduct several malicious activities, including DDoS attacks and crypto-mining campaigns. CVE-2019-12725 – Zeroshell 3.9.0. from visual-tools.com. P4410-V2-1.28

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Gafgyt is a popular choice for launching large-scale DDoS attacks and it has been around since 2014, the latest variant borrows the code from the JenX botnet. Al the flaws are old, this means that attackers aim at infecting unpatched IoT devices. ” reads the analysis published by PaloAlto Networks. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2020

Bot list with Telnet credentials for more than 500,000 servers and IoT devices leaked online. Citrix releases permanent fixes for CVE-2019-19781 flaw in ADC 11.1 For the second time in a few days, Greek Government websites hit by DDoS attacks. The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In December, Canada’s Laurentian University reported a DDoS attack. Educational institutions are recommended to use anti-DDoS solutions and strong firewall settings, and partner up with ISPs. In early October, a DDoS attack was reported by the PUBG Mobile team. But it dealt with the problem in a matter of minutes.

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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. ” Shwydiuk, a.k.a.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2018

5 IoT Security Predictions for 2019. Law enforcement take down 15 DDoS-for-Hire services. Researcher disclosed a Windows zero-day for the third time in a few months. Caribou Coffee Payment Card Breach, over 260 stores impacted. Hack the Air Force 3 – White hat hackers earn $130,000.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

billion to cybercriminals in 2019, according to the FBI. worldwide in 2019, according to a Ponemon Institute survey. is the hardware that connects an organization’s devices, such as routers, servers, computers, mobile devices and internet of things (IoT) devices. Businesses and consumers in the U.S. lost more than $3.5

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2019

Starting from June 12, 2019, the researcher Ankit Anubhav from NewSky Security, observed threat actors targeting Web-based DNA sequencer applications. Unlike an IPCamera or Router based IoT device, these are very unique devices installed in scientific ,academic and medical institutions. ” concludes the expert.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The notorious IPStorm botnet proxy network, which first spun up in 2019 targeting Windows systems and two years later expanded to devices running other operating systems, is shut down and its creator in jail after pleading guilty to related criminal counts, according to the FBI. The federal law enforcement agency said this week that it’s.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Q3 2021 brought two new DDoS attack vectors, potentially posing a serious threat, including for major web resources. ris , a new botnet capable of carrying out powerful DDoS attacks. For instance, a DDoS attack on a Cloudflare customer (attributed to M?ris) We won't let our #DDoS stop us doing what we love!

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Anton on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

An anti-DDoS vendor promised “better zero trust visibility.” IoT/OT security : very few, very small vendors focus there, and some who used to are pivoting away. Anyhow, a decent question for RSA 2025… Related posts: RSA 2020 Reflection RSA 2019: Happily Not Over-AI’d RSA 2018: Not As Messy As Before? So still no money in it?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Description: PERSPECTIVE: Many companies embrace mobile, video, cloud, and IoT technologies to stay competitive and relevant amidst ever-growing demands from customers and partners. Indra Nooyi is the former Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo (2006-2019); a Fortune 50 company with operations in more than 180 countries.

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