Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2020

This week, security researchers said they spotted that same vulnerability being exploited by a new variant of Mirai , a malware strain that targets vulnerable Internet of Things (IoT) devices for use in large-scale attacks and as proxies for other cybercrime activity. A joint advisory on CVE-2020-9054 from the U.S.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2023

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. Below is the list of exploit payloads added to the bot: D-Link: CVE-2015-1187 , CVE-2016-20017 , CVE-2020-25506 , and CVE-2021-45382. ” concludes the analysis.

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SecureList

AUGUST 3, 2022

Politically-motivated cyberattacks dominated the DDoS landscape in the second quarter of 2022 just as they did in the previous reporting period. The pro-Russian hacktivists Killnet, which first surfaced in January 2022, claimed responsibility for DDoS attacks on the websites of various European organizations from April through June.

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

Tbps DDoS attack, the largest ever, which surpassed the previous record of 1.7 Amazon announced it has mitigated the largest ever DDoS attack of 2.3 “In Q1 2020, a known UDP reflection vector, CLDAP reflection, was observed with a previously unseen volume of 2.3 The 99th percentile event in Q1 2020 was 43 Gbps.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Cloudflare announced to have mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at almost 2 terabytes per second (Tbps). is an American web infrastructure and website security company that provides content delivery network and DDoS mitigation services. SecurityAffairs – hacking, DDoS). Cloudflare, Inc.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

Chaput said the spammers used more than 1,500 Internet addresses across 400 providers to register new accounts, which then followed popular accounts on Mastodon and sent private mentions to the followers of those accounts. Shortly after that, those same servers came under a sustained distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

There is no indication these are the real names of the phishers, but the names are useful in pointing to other sites targeting Privnote since 2020. Other Privnote phishing domains that also phoned home to the same Internet address as pirwnote[.]com A search at DomainTools.com for privatenote[.]io com , privatemessage[.]net

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

In 2020, the United States brought charges against four men accused of building a bulletproof hosting empire that once dominated the Russian cybercrime industry and supported multiple organized cybercrime groups. From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

We can learn a lot from the cybercrime of the past…the history of cybercrime is a glimpse into what we can expect in the future. In the past 18 months, we’ve experienced the beginning of an era that has seen cybersecurity and cybercrime at the center of it all. Dateline Cybercrime . Robert Herjavec.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Having been in the field for so long, we have witnessed some major changes in the cybercrime world’s modus operandi. This report shares our insights into the Russian-speaking cybercrime world and the changes in how it operates that have happened in the past five years.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

This post examines some of the clues left behind by “ Wazawaka ,” the hacker handle chosen by a major access broker in the Russian-speaking cybercrime scene. Wazawaka has been a highly active member of multiple cybercrime forums over the past decade, but his favorite is the Russian-language community Exploit.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2021

INTERPOL published the African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2021, a report that analyzes evolution of cybercrime in Africa. A new report published by INTERPOL, titled the African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2021 , sheds the light on cybercrime in Africa.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

We can therefore expect that cybercrime groups from either block will feel safe to attack companies from the opposing side. And that (b) we are also likely to see a steep increase in DDoS extortion campaigns as the Cyberwar in Ukraine leads to all-time-high levels of DDoS attacks. I expect that the theft of medical data (ex.

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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. Upon installing the threat, the bot drops a file in /tmp/.pwned

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

And now, with many schools going virtual, the get out of school tactics are moving into the cybercrime realm. Multiple DDoS attacks disrupt online classes. The district says distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks kept knocking online classes offline. DDoS attacks around the world are surging.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

First of all, we are going to analyze the forecasts we made at the end of 2020 and see how accurate they were. The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to cause a massive wave of poverty, and that invariably translates into more people resorting to crime, including cybercrime. Cracking down hard on the cybercrime world. Definitely yes.

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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 4, 2022

Threats against availability: Largest Denial of Service (DDoS) attack ever was launched in Europe in July 2022; Internet: destruction of infrastructure, outages and rerouting of internet traffic. Supply chain targeting : Third-party incidents account for 17% of the intrusions in 2021 compared to less than 1% in 2020.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Germany’s Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) arrested an individual (24) suspected of having stolen €4,000,000 from internet users via phishing attacks along with a two accomplices who are suspected. Investigators believe the gang relied on DDoS-for-hire services provided by other cybercriminals.

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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. from visual-tools.com. CVE-2021-2900 – Genexis PLATINUM 4410 2.1 P4410-V2-1.28

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Massive DDoS attack brought down 25% Iranian Internet connectivity. Safer internet day – Cybercrime facts Infographic. Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for February 2020 fix IE 0day flaw. Reading the 2019 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report. A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived!

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Power Grid, says intelligence bulletin US defense contractor Electronic Warfare Associates discloses data breach Ukraine intelligence doxed 5 FSB Officers that are members of Gamaredon APT Group Threat actor exploits MS ProxyShell flaws to deploy Babuk ransomware npm libraries coa and rc. Operators made $2.1 Operators made $2.1

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Once the attacker gains control of a vulnerable device in this manner, they could take advantage by including the newly compromised devices in their botnet to conduct further attacks such as DDoS.” ” concludes the report. “Therefore, it is highly recommended that patches and updates are applied when possible.”

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

On the modern Internet, malware is a near-constant presence. A 2020 study of pentesting projects from Positive Technologies revealed that external attackers could breach 93% of company networks , with 71% being vulnerable even to novice-level hackers. Worms and the Dawn of the Internet Age: 1987-2000.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

FireEye Mandiant M-Trends 2020 report: 500+ new Malware strains in 2019. Lampion malware v2 February 2020. Raccoon Malware, a success case in the cybercrime ecosystem. Silence Hacking Crew threatens Australian banks of DDoS attacks. Threat actors scan Internet for Vulnerable Microsoft Exchange Servers.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Internet segmentation Amid growing geopolitical tensions, some web resources have blocked users from certain countries and regions. There are two main reasons for that: political pressure and DDoS attacks. In the other case, organizations use geofencing to protect their resources from DDoS attacks.

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Webroot

JANUARY 7, 2022

2020 may have been the year of establishing remote connectivity and addressing the cybersecurity skills gap, but 2021 presented security experts, government officials and businesses with a series of unpresented challenges. Suffice to say, a lot has been happening at once.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2021

million customers Adobe addresses two critical vulnerabilities in Photoshop Hamburg’s data protection agency (DPA) states that using Zoom violates GDPR Kalay cloud platform flaw exposes millions of IoT devices to hack Fortinet FortiWeb OS Command Injection allows takeover servers remotely 1.9

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The consequences of which are not only born by companies who are the primary targets of cybercrime. Simply defined, the internet of things (IoT) is a network of Internet-connected objects able to collect and exchange data. VPNs are the baseline cybersecurity tool to safeguard internet-enabled devices and a home network.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 and that targets Docker installs. In January 2021, the cybercrime gang launched a new campaign targeting Kubernetes environments with the Hildegard malware, Palo Alto Networks warns. aws/credentials and ~/.aws/config

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

fitness chains Town Sports leaked online Group-IB detects a series of ransomware attacks by OldGremlin HOW DO PROVIDERS IMPLEMENT INTERNET BLOCKING IN BELARUS? Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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IT Security Guru

JULY 19, 2021

Although cybercrime as a whole has seen a rise during the pandemic, arguably ransomware has been one of the more successful and lucrative attack types. Our own research report, the State of Encrypted Attacks Report 2020 , found that there had been a 500 per cent rise in ransomware compared to 2019.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) just published its Threat Landscape 2020 report. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). The problems with the RDP is that it suffers from vulnerabilities that can be exploited and the RDP service may rely on internet-facing servers which are easily accessed.". Web-based Attacks.

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

Along with the rise of big-game hunting in 2020, we saw the emergence of a number of high-profile groups in the ransomware world. They interact with each other through internet handles, paying for services with cryptocurrency. But it is worth pointing out that not all members of this ecosystem originate from the cybercrime underworld.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2021

2020 is a case in point. And there are even more specialized products such as DDoS attacks, email databases, and malware. With the pandemic pushing so many people to have economic activities on the internet, payment processors are now more relevant than ever before. DDoS Attacks. Cryptocurrency trading accounts.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Group-IB, has analyzed key recent changes to the global cyberthreat landscape in the “Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2019/2020” report. The new “ Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2019/2020 ” report describes attacks on various industries and critical infrastructure facilities, as well as campaigns aimed at destabilization of the Internet in certain countries.

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