SecureList

APRIL 25, 2022

The DDoS landscape in Q1 2022 was shaped by the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine: a significant part of all DDoS-related news concerned these countries. In mid-January, the website of Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko was hit by a DDoS attack, and the websites of a number of Ukrainian ministries were defaced.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Dutch police dismantled Bohemia/Cannabia, two major dark web markets for illegal goods, drugs, and cybercrime services. These are two of the largest and longest-running dark web platforms for the trade of illegal goods, drugs, and cybercrime services. ” reads the announcement published by Polite.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2023

Most people who operate DDoS-for-hire businesses attempt to hide their true identities and location. Proprietors of these so-called “booter” or “stresser” services — designed to knock websites and users offline — have long operated in a legally murky area of cybercrime law.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 1, 2022

The post This was H1 2022 – Part 1 – The Fight Against Cybercrime appeared first on Radware Blog. The post This was H1 2022 – Part 1 – The Fight Against Cybercrime appeared first on Security Boulevard. To make matters worse, there was a lack of skilled security professionals who could […].

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The Internet Archive founder, Brewster Kahle, also confirmed that the platform was hit by a DDoS attack that took the website offline several times. The DDoS attack was not linked to the data breach and BleepingComputer attributed the attack to a pro-Palestinian group called SN_BlackMeta.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

A notorious hacker convicted of perpetrating tens of thousands of cybercrimes, Kivimäki had been in hiding since October 2022, when he failed to show up in court and Finland issued an international warrant for his arrest. The DDoS-for-hire service allegedly operated by Kivimäki in 2012. Kivimäki was 15 years old at the time.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2022

Enemybot is a DDoS botnet that targeted several routers and web servers by exploiting known vulnerabilities. Researchers from Fortinet discovered a new DDoS botnet, tracked as Enemybot, that has targeted several routers and web servers by exploiting known vulnerabilities. Upon installing the threat, the bot drops a file in /tmp/.pwned

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Cloudflare mitigated dozens of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks last weekend, most of them ranging from 50 to 70 million requests per second (RPS) – and the largest one exceeding 71 million RPS. DDoS attacks, on the other hand, don’t require infiltration to be effective and thus are growing in frequency and intensity.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2025

This move, reported by cybersecurity firm Cybereason, shows Qilin stepping up its operations and trying to take over space left by rival cybercrime groups. The Qilin ransomware group has been active since at least August 2022 but gained attention in June 2024 for attacking Synnovis , a UK governmental service provider for healthcare.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2024

Finnish prosecutors quickly zeroed in on a suspect: Julius “Zeekill” Kivimäki , a notorious criminal hacker convicted of committing tens of thousands of cybercrimes before he became an adult. After being charged with the attack in October 2022, Kivimäki fled the country. Kivimäki was 15 years old at the time.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Cloudflare mitigated a record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Wynncraft, one of the largest Minecraft servers. Cloudflare announced it has mitigated a record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Wynncraft, one of the largest Minecraft servers. The largest attack was a 2.5 ” continues the report.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

A series of distributed denial of service ( DDoS ) attacks today briefly took down the websites of over a dozen U.S. See the DDoS Protection Service Providers. Killnet has been launching similar DDoS attacks for months, targeting everything from Romanian government websites to Lithuania’s Secure Data Transfer Network.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A financial cybercrime group calling itself the Disneyland Team has been making liberal use of visually confusing phishing domains that spoof popular bank brands using Punycode , an Internet standard that allows web browsers to render domain names with non-Latin alphabets like Cyrillic. com — which was created to phish 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. The botnet supports multiple DDoS attacks, including UDP, HTTP Flood, UDP Plain, and TCP SYN. ” reads the analysis published by Fortinet. ” concludes the analysis.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2023

Polish police, as part of the international law enforcement operation PowerOFF, dismantled a DDoS-for-hire service that has been active since at least 2013. An international operation codenamed PowerOff led to the shutdown of a DDoS-for-hire service that has been active since at least 2013. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Fortinet researchers discovered new samples of RapperBot used to build a botnet to launch Distributed DDoS attacks against game servers. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researchers have discovered new samples of the RapperBot malware that are being used to build a DDoS botnet to target game servers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Cybersecurity company Imperva announced to have mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack with a total of over 25.3 Cybersecurity firm Imperva mitigated a DDoS attack with over 25.3 billion requests on June 27, 2022. “On June 27, 2022, Imperva mitigated a single attack with over 25.3 billion requests.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2022

The operators behind the TrickBot malware are systematically targeting Ukraine since the beginning of the war in February 2022. Between mid-April and mid-June of 2022, the Trickbot group has conducted at least six campaigns against entities in Ukraine. ” concludes IBM. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Cloudflare mitigated a record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) that reached 71 Million requests per second. Cloudflare announced it has mitigated a record hyper-volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at over 71 million requests per second (RPS). “This was a weekend of record-breaking DDoS attacks.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 7, 2022

” Stern apparently believed in his crypto dreams so much that he sponsored a $100,000 article writing contest on the Russian language cybercrime forum Exploit, asking interested applicants to put forth various ideas for crypto platforms. . We release ddos. From the main problem points, this is the implementation of Ipv6 DDoS.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2023

DoJ announced the seizure of 13 new domains associated with DDoS-for-hire platforms as part of Operation PowerOFF. Justice Department announced the seizure of 13 domains linked to DDoS-for-hire services as part of a coordinated international law enforcement effort known as Operation PowerOFF. com, ragebooter(.)com, com, downthem(.)org

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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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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

At the end of January, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center warned that the KillNet group is actively targeting the US healthcare sector with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says it helped dozens of hospitals respond to these DDoS incidents.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2022

This is our latest installment, focusing on activities that we observed during Q2 2022. We discovered a highly active campaign, starting in March 2022, targeting stock and cryptocurrency investors in South Korea. We have seen a spike in “hacktivist” attacks, ranging from DDoS attacks to doxxing and hack-and-leak operations.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2023

A DDoS botnet dubbed AndoryuBot has been observed exploiting an RCE, tracked as CVE-2023-25717, in Ruckus access points. The activity is associated with a known DDoS botnet tracked as AndoryuBot that first appeared in February 2023. The bot supports multiple DDoS attack techniques and uses SOCKS5 proxies for C2 communications.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

Throughout 2023, Tornote was hosted with the Russian provider DDoS-Guard , at the Internet address 186.2.163[.]216. info , a website erected after Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022 that doxed Russians perceived to have helped the Ukrainian cause. io, the main other domain at this address was hkleaks[.]ml. Among those is rustraitor[.]info

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SecureList

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In general, the number of unique threads discussing drainers on underground markets increased from 55 in 2022 to 129 in 2024, which is remarkable. Increase in high-profile law enforcement operations against cybercrime groups 2024 was a significant year in the global high-profile fight against cybercrime.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2023

Authorities in Germany this week seized Internet servers that powered FlyHosting, a dark web service that catered to cybercriminals operating DDoS-for-hire services. The post German Police Raid DDoS-Friendly Host ‘FlyHosting’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Webroot

JANUARY 7, 2022

In particular, we witnessed an increase in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and a surge in the usage of the internet of things (IoT). The cybercrime marketplace also continued to get more robust while the barrier to entry for malicious actors continued to drop. What to expect in 2022? Consumers also remain at risk.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2022

PrivacyAffairs released the Dark Web Index 2022, the document provides the prices for illegal services/products available in the black marketplaces. The document updates the information provided in the Dark Web Index 2022 report. The document updates the information provided in the Dark Web Index 2022 report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureList

MAY 11, 2022

Ahead of the Anti-Ransomware Day, we summarized the tendencies that characterize ransomware landscape in 2022. Watching and assessing these tendencies not only provides us with threat intelligence to fight cybercrime today, but also helps us deduce what trends may see in the months to come and prepare for them better.

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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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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

IT threat evolution in Q1 2022. IT threat evolution in Q1 2022. IT threat evolution in Q1 2022. Subsequently, DDoS attacks hit some government websites. In March, the Lapsus$ cybercrime group claimed that it had obtained “superuser/admin” access to internal systems at Okta. Non-mobile statistics.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2023

“FortiGuard Labs encountered recent samples of a DDoS -as-a-service botnet calling itself Condi. The malware compromises the devices to build a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet. ” reads the report published by Fortinet. ” The CVE-2023-1389 flaw exploited by the bot is a command injection vulnerability.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The Europen Agency for cybersecurity ENISA releases its ENISA Threat Landscape 2022 (ETL) report , which is the annual analysis of the state of the cybersecurity threat landscape. This is the 10 th edition of the annual report and analyzes events that took place between July 2021 and July 2022. Cybercrime actors. Hacktivists.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2023

The report covers incidents in aviation, maritime, railway, and road transport industries between January 2021 and October 2022. During the reporting period, ransomware was the most prominent threat against the sector in 2022. The researchers pointed out that the ransomware attacks doubled compared to the previous year.

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