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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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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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Akamai announced to have recently blocked a new record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. On Monday, September 12, 2022, Akamai mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever that hit one of its European customers. The malicious traffic peaked at 704.8 July Attack September Attack Peak pps 659.6 Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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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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MARCH 9, 2023

Akamai has mitigated the largest DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack ever, which peaked at 900.1 Akamai reported that on February 23, 2023, at 10:22 UTC, it mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever. The record-breaking DDoS was launched against a Prolexic customer in Asia-Pacific (APAC). gigabits per second.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Pro-Russia hacker group Killnet launched a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on NATO servers, including the NATO Special Operations Headquarters (NSHQ) website. Pro-Russia hacker group Killnet launched a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on NATO sites, including the NATO Special Operations Headquarters (NSHQ) website.

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MARCH 29, 2022

Threat actors compromised WordPress sites to deploy a script that was used to launch DDoS attacks, when they are visited, on Ukrainian websites. MalwareHunterTeam researchers discovered the malicious script on a compromised WordPress site, when the users were visiting the website the script launched a DDoS attack against ten Ukrainian sites.

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JULY 14, 2022

The largest HTTPS DDoS attack recently mitigated by Cloudflare was launched by the Mantis botnet. In June 2022, DDoS mitigation firm Cloudflare announced it has mitigated the largest HTTPS DDoS attack that was launched by a botnet they have called Mantis. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Pro-Russian hacker collective Killnet took down the European Parliament website with a DDoS cyberattack. The Pro-Russia group of hacktivists Killnet claimed responsibility for the DDoS attack that today took down the website of the European Parliament website. — Jaume Duch (@jduch) November 23, 2022. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2022

Pro-Ukraine hackers are using Docker images to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a dozen Russian and Belarusian websites. The DDoS attacks also targeted three Lithuanian media websites. “Container and cloud-based resources are being abused to deploy disruptive tools. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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APRIL 9, 2022

A massive DDoS attack took down Finnish government websites while Ukrainian President Zelenskyy addressed Finland’s members of parliament (MPs). StandWithUkraine [link] — MFA Finland (@Ulkoministerio) April 8, 2022. link] — Puolustusministeriö (@DefenceFinland) April 8, 2022. To nominate, please visit:?

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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. ”Thus, it is strongly recommended to always apply the latest security patches and updates as soon as possible.”

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AUGUST 22, 2022

Entrust_Corp #cybersecurity #infosec @Cyberknow20 @GossiTheDog @campuscodi @vxunderground @FBI pic.twitter.com/m54y0x1CIJ — Dominic Alvieri (@AlvieriD) July 21, 2022. Curiously, the LockBit ransomware’s Tor leak sites were unreacheable due to a DDoS attack. No one seen taking credit to date. Pierluigi Paganini.

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APRIL 28, 2022

Cloudflare has mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 15.3 Cloudflare announced to have mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 15.3 million request-per-second (RPS), which is one of the largest HTTPS DDoS attacks blocked by the company.

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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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APRIL 28, 2022

Ukraine CERT-UA warns of ongoing DDoS attacks targeting pro-Ukraine sites and the government web portal. The post Ongoing DDoS attacks from compromised sites hit Ukraine appeared first on Security Affairs. ” reads the advisory of the Ukraine CERT-UA. To nominate, please visit:? Pierluigi Paganini.

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APRIL 25, 2023

A flaw in the Service Location Protocol (SLP), tracked as CVE-2023-29552, can allow to carry out powerful DDoS attacks. A high-severity security vulnerability (CVE-2023-29552, CVSS score: 8.6) impacting the Service Location Protocol ( SLP ) can be exploited by threat actors to conduct powerful volumetric DDoS attacks.

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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.

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AUGUST 4, 2022

Major Taiwan government websites were temporarily forced offline by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks attacks during the visit to Taipei of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. In February 2022, China-linked APT group APT10 (aka Stone Panda, Bronze Riverside) targeted Taiwan’s financial trading sector with a supply chain attack.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The threat actors behind a massive AdSense fraud campaign infected 10,890 WordPress sites since September 2022. In November 2022, researchers from security firm Sucuri reported to have tracked a surge in WordPress malware redirecting website visitors to fake Q&A sites via ois[.]is. URLs like t[.]co/Xa4ZRqsp8C co/KgdLpz31TG.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Ukraine ‘s defense agencies and two state-owned banks were hit by Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. The Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces of Ukraine and state-owned banks, Privatbank (Ukraine’s largest bank) and Oschadbank were hit by Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. Inform [link] ?? ?????

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JANUARY 9, 2023

At the end of 2022, major Dark Web drug markets were worth an estimated $315 million annually according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The post <strong>Resecurity Released a Status Report on Drug Trafficking in the Dark Web (2022-2023)</strong> appeared first on Security Affairs.

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MAY 5, 2023

The French Senate’s website was taken offline by a DDoS attack launched by the pro-Russian hacker group NoName. The pro-Russia hacker group NoName is claiming responsibility for a DDoS attack that took the website of the French Senate offline. We are in the final!

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AUGUST 19, 2022

Undersecretary for Digital Transformation Luukas Ilves announced that Estonia was hit by the most extensive wave of DDoS attacks it has faced since 2007. The DDoS attacks targeted both public institutions and the private sector. Attempted DDoS attacks targeted both public institutions and the private sector. (1/4)

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JUNE 27, 2022

The Lithuanian Ministry of Defense announced that Lithuanian state institutions and companies are under a massive DDoS attack. Lithuanian state institutions and companies are under intense DDoS attack. pic.twitter.com/7onnYtceJi — Lithuanian MOD (@Lithuanian_MoD) June 27, 2022.

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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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FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In the last few days massive DDoS attacks have taken offline numerous websites of Russian government entities, including the Duma and Ministry of Defense. Doemela_X) February 27, 2022. Ukraine pic.twitter.com/BkorZYUW9L — IT Army of Ukraine (@ITarmyUA) February 28, 2022. Pierluigi Paganini.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

. “To help organizations better protect themselves, SecurityScorecard has published a list of proxy IPs to help block the Killnet DDoS bot.” ” reads the post published by the security firm SecurityScorecard. Last week the pro-Russia group intensified its activity.

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APRIL 2, 2022

Operators behind the Mirai-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet Beastmode (aka B3astmode) added exploits for Totolink routers. The Mirai -based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet Beastmode (aka B3astmode) now includes exploits for Totolink routers. CVE-2022-26186 targets TOTOLINK N600R and A7100RU.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2022

This follows the DDoS attacks against several Ukrainian websites earlier today 1/n — ESET research (@ESETresearch) February 23, 2022. New #wiper malware being used in attacks on #Ukraine 1bc44eef75779e3ca1eefb8ff5a64807dbc942b1e4a2672d77b9f6928d292591 — Threat Intelligence (@threatintel) February 23, 2022.

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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 Zerobot botnet first appeared in the wild in November 2022 targeting devices running on Linux operating system. “Since the release of Zerobot 1.1, ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft.

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MAY 14, 2022

The Pro-Russian volunteer movement known as LEGION is calling to launch DDoS attacks against the final of the Eurovision song contest. The LEGION is a Pro-Russian volunteer movement that focuses on DDOS attacks. Task #2: Task #2 make a DDOS attack on the discovered servers and keep them until 07:00 Moscow time.

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APRIL 3, 2023

FortiGuard Labs researchers observed an ongoing hacking campaign targeting Cacti ( CVE-2022-46169 ) and Realtek ( CVE-2021-35394 ) vulnerabilities to spread ShellBot and Moobot malware. The ShellBot , also known as PerlBot, is a Perl-based DDoS bot that uses IRC protocol for C2 communications. also support backdoor capabilities.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

.” Ukraine’s security service, the SBU, announced that it has identified and detained an alleged member of the pro-Russia hacker group known as the Cyber Army of Russia. The hacktivists group is known for having launched DDoS attacks against Western organizations and Ukrainian government agencies.

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JANUARY 13, 2023

A Pro-Russian group named NoName057(16) is targeting organizations in Ukraine and NATO countries with DDoS attacks. A Pro-Russian cybercrime group named NoName057 (16) (aka 05716nnm or Nnm05716) is behind a wave of DDoS attacks against organizations in Ukraine and NATO countries, SentinelOne researchers reported.

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MARCH 8, 2023

A proof of concept (PoC) exploit code for this vulnerability was published on GitHub since December 2022. The CVE-2022-33891 flaw is a command injection vulnerability in the Apache Spark. The third vulnerability added to the catalog, tracked as CVE-2022-28810, is a remote code execution issue in Zoho ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus.

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