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

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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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Healthcare organizations are taking advantage of the many benefits of cloud and SaaS, accessing apps and data over the Internet. Access controls are the nexus of security and the expanding perimeter, and zero trust is the architecture that encompasses it. Zero trust is an all-inclusive security and privacy architecture.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 20, 2022

Incidents of malware targeting Linux-based Internet of Things (IoT) devices jumped by more than a third in 2021, with three malware families the primary drivers behind the increase. There was a 10-fold increase in the number of samples of Mozi found in the wild, Mihai Maganu, a threat researcher at CrowdStrike, wrote in a blog post.

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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 botnet targets multiple architectures, including arm, bsd, x64, and x86. The researchers attribute the botnet to the cybercrime group Keksec which focuses on DDoS-based extortion.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 11, 2024

The rapid proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) represents vast opportunities for the public sector. Today’s Internet of Things might as well be called the Internet of Threats. These families are a particularly formidable threat to the public sector — in the form of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here is Erin’s Q&A column, which originally went live on OneRep’s well-done blog.) For the first expert interview on our blog, we welcomed Pulitzer-winning investigative reporter Byron V. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be.

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