Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Recently the leak of a collection of files apparently stolen from the Chinese government hacking contractor, I-Soon, exposed Chinese hacking capabilities. Recently someone has leaked on GitHub [ 1 , 2 ] a collection of files apparently stolen from the Chinese hacking firm, I-Soon.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 27, 2023

The “online criminal marketplace” has been disrupted via several fake Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) tools, according to an announcement from The British National Crime Agency (NCA). Some folks register on hacking sites and services out of curiosity. This is the case with DDoS tools.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2022

Cyble researchers discovered a new remote access trojan (RAT) named Borat capable of conducting DDoS and ransomware attacks. Unlike other RATs, the Borat RAT provides Ransomware and DDOS services to attackers expanding their capabilities. DDOS – This module is used to perform a DDOS attack. ” concludes Cyble.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The popular encrypted email service Tutanota was hit with a series of DDoS attacks this week targeting its website fist and its DNS providers later. Encrypted email service, Tutanota suffered a series of DDoS attacks that initially targeted the website and later its DNS providers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Tutanota).

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 20, 2021

On the Cloudflare blog , the American web infrastructure behemoth that provides content delivery network (CDN) and DDoS mitigation services reports that it detected and mitigated a 17.2 million request-per-second (rps) DDoS attack. The target of this enormous DDoS attack was a customer of Cloudflare in the financial sector.

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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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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. Image: SentinelOne.com.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

A massive DDoS hit New Zealand ‘s third-largest internet operator isolating parts of the country from the Internet. A massive DDoS hit Vocus ISP, New Zealand ‘s third-largest internet operator, isolating parts of the country from the Internet. “This afternoon our network was impacted by a DDoS attack.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

11, when the company’s Twitter account started fielding reports from users who said they were no longer receiving messages. VFEmail’s Twitter account responded that “external facing systems, of differing OS’s and remote authentication, in multiple data centers are down.” 9], username “aktv.”).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

After ChatGPT, Anonymous Sudan took down the Cloudflare website with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The hacktivist group Anonymous Sudan claimed responsibility for the massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that took down the website of Cloudflare. “ To be clear, there was no Cloudflare breach.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2024

A 26-year-old Finnish man was sentenced to more than six years in prison today after being convicted of hacking into an online psychotherapy clinic, leaking tens of thousands of patient therapy records, and attempting to extort the clinic and patients. Kivimäki was 15 years old at the time.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Ukrainian police arrested a cybercriminal who controlled a botnet composed of 100,000 devices that was available for rent to launch DDoS attacks. Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has arrested a hacker who controlled a DDoS botnet composed of 100,000 devices that was available for rent. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2023

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

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Researchers warn of attacks against poorly managed Linux SSH servers that mainly aim at installing DDoS bot and CoinMiner. Researchers at AhnLab Security Emergency Response Center (ASEC) are warning about attacks targeting poorly managed Linux SSH servers, primarily focused on installing DDoS bots and CoinMiners.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 18, 2023

July 18, 2022 – Around 30,000 websites get hacked every day , with the majority of those cyberattacks due to human error. A new study by HostingAdvice, the premier authority on web hosting, found that 32% of Americans say they’ve gotten hacked from visiting a sketchy website and of those, 53% got a computer virus. Gainesville, Fla.,

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2023

New ShellBot DDoS bot malware, aka PerlBot, is targeting poorly managed Linux SSH servers, ASEC researchers warn. The ShellBot , also known as PerlBot, is a Perl-based DDoS bot that uses IRC protocol for C2 communications. . LiGhT’s Modded perlbot v2 and DDoS PBot v2.0 ” reads the ASEC’s report.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2021

The same day the blackout took place, the company announced that a major DDoS attack disrupted its online services. LUMA descubrió un ataque de denegación de servicio distribuido (DDoS, por sus siglas en inglés) dirigido al portal de clientes y la aplicación móvil Mi LUMA. SecurityAffairs – hacking, fire). ” reported NPR.

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Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2023

The first data that emerged from the report is that ransomware accounts for 54% of cybersecurity threats in the health sector. According to the report, organizations in the European health sector experienced a significant number of incidents, with healthcare providers accounting for 53% of the total incidents.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

In an ironic twist, the accused — who had fairly well separated his real life identity from his online personas — appears to have been caught after a gaming Web site he frequented got hacked. The DDoS-for-hire service run by Apophis Squad listed their members. 12, the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. Chaput said that at one point last week the volume of bot accounts being registered for the crypto spam campaign started overwhelming the servers that handle new signups at Mastodon.social.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

You may have heard the acronym DDoS before, but what is it and how can a DDoS attack impact your website? In a DDoS attack, cybercriminals use hacked networks to flood internet servers with traffic, sending more requests than the server can handle. How to Tell if a Site Is Under a DDoS Attack.

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Security Affairs

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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Taiwan). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

Researchers at Imperva revealed that an undisclosed streaming service was hit by a massive DDoS attack that stopped it for 13 days. day DDoS massive attack powered by a Mirai botnet composed of 402,000 IoT devices. According to Imperva, it was the largest Layer 7 DDoS attack it has ever seen. SecurityAffairs – DDoS, hacking).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2019

Europol and law enforcement agencies worldwide are investigating DDoS-for-hire services and hunting users that paid them to carry out cyber attacks. The operation dubbed Power Off allowed to shut down the biggest DDoS-for-hire service ( webstresser.org ) and arrest its administrators. webstresser.org.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

Timetv.live is the latest Azeri news site targeted by Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks launched by Sandman threat actor, the attack took place on March 21, 2020. Just like many other DDoS attacks we have seen in the past against Azeri media, the attacker monitors the success of the floods using the HostTracker service.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 6, 2024

Shooper Choosday: Was yesterday’s Meta outage outrage caused by a Russian DDoS? The post Facebook/Insta FAIL — ‘Anonymous Sudan’ has a Super Tuesday: ‘We Did It.’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Notice Bored

AUGUST 27, 2020

Under assault from a sustained DDoS attack, its web servers have crumpled and fallen in an untidy heap again today, the fourth day of embarrassing and costly disruption. DDoS attacks are generally not sophisticated hacks but crude overloads caused by sending vast volumes of data to overwhelm the servers.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2023

Researchers warn of an ongoing Tsunami DDoS botnet campaign targeting inadequately protected Linux SSH servers. Researchers from AhnLab Security Emergency response Center (ASEC) have uncovered an ongoing hacking campaign, aimed at poorly protected Linux SSH servers, to install the Tsunami DDoS botnet (aka Kaiten).

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Why would cybercriminals be interested in hacking a vegan food blog? Her customers can create and log in to their accounts using unique usernames and passwords. They can even save their personal financial information to their account, which is stored in Julia’s database. Julia’s website is an ideal target for cybercriminals.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Viking Line: The shipping company, like many across Europe, was the target of a DDoS attack that crippled websites and has IT teams working triple-time to get systems back online. Also, on August 22, 2023, we became aware that the at-issue email accounts include email accounts that may contain protected health information."

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Krebs on Security

MAY 28, 2020

The United Kingdom’s anti-cybercrime agency is running online ads aimed at young people who search the Web for services that enable computer crimes, specifically trojan horse programs and DDoS-for-hire services. “This is all about showing people there are other paths they can take.” FLATTENING THE CURVE.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2024

The Nemesis Market has been active since 2021, its offerings included illegal drugs and narcotics, stolen data and credit cards, as well as a selection of cybercrime services such as ransomware , phishing or DDoS attacks. The Nemesis Market recently reached over 150,000 users and over 1,100 seller accounts registered worldwide.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 19, 2020

The SBU said they found on Sanix’s computer records showing he sold databases with “logins and passwords to e-mail boxes, PIN codes for bank cards, e-wallets of cryptocurrencies, PayPal accounts, and information about computers hacked for further use in botnets and for organizing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.”

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Security Affairs

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. Twitter, ????? ????? .

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2021

Group-IB discovered a database allegedly belonging to a bulletproof hosting provider DDoS-Guard posted for sale on a cybercrime forum. The database supposedly contains information about DDoS-Guard’s customers, including their names, IP-addresses, and payment information. The seller registered this account on exploit[.]in

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2022

Anonymous claims to have hacked the Russian Orthodox Church ‘s charitable wing and leaked 15 GB of alleged stolen data. Apr 01 – Anonymous targets oligarchs’ Russian businesses: Marathon Group hacked. Anonymous continues its operations against Russia, the group announced the hack of the Russian investment firm Marathon Group.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2022

The attackers carried out both phishing campaigns and DDoS attacks. “In the last 12 months, TAG has issued hundreds of government-backed attack warnings to Ukrainian users alerting them that they have been the target of government backed hacking, largely emanating from Russia.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, Ukraine).

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