Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

Shortly after that, those same servers came under a sustained distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Chaput said whoever was behind the DDoS was definitely not using point-and-click DDoS tools, like a booter or stresser service. In May 2020, Zipper told another Lolzteam member that quot[.]pw pw was their domain.

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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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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Dark web services: DDoS attacks, botnets, and zero-day IoT vulnerabilities Of all IoT-related services offered on the dark web, DDoS attacks are worth examining first. See translation I’m the world’s best-known DDoS attacker for hire (getting ahead of myself here). Botnet based on Medusa, working since 2020.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This is exactly what happened on October 12, 2016, when the Mirai botnet used an army of IoT devices — like security cameras, digital video recorders (DVRs) and routers — to execute a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack which left much of the internet inaccessible.

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SecureList

MAY 10, 2021

Botnet operators use infected devices to carry out DDoS attacks or mine cryptocurrency. In Q1 2021, cybercriminals also found a host of new tools for amplifying DDoS attacks. RDP servers listening on UDP port 3389 were used to amplify DDoS attacks. That said, a VPN is no panacea if it too is vulnerable to amplification attacks.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Here are five significant cybersecurity vulnerabilities with IoT in 2020. Nobody told them that their coffee machine could be hacked into or that their camera could be used to launch a DDoS attack. It can be prevented through the use of an online VPN. The Threat is Definitely Real. Shadow IoT Devices.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Vendor reports note huge volume of attacks on local and public infrastructure, such as: CrowdStrike: Monitored hacktivist and nation-state distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks related to the Israli-Palestinian conflict, including against a US airport. 50,000 DDoS attacks on public domain name service (DNS) resolvers.

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