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DDoS Attacks Skyrocket, Kaspersky Researchers Say

eSecurity Planet

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks soared in the third quarter, giving organizations yet another cyber threat to worry about. Even the slowest days saw 500 DDoS attacks; the busiest day, Aug. Also read: How to Stop DDoS Attacks: 6 Tips for Fighting DDoS Attacks. DDoS Attackers Target Middleboxes, UDP.

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KmsdBot, a new evasive bot for cryptomining activity and DDoS attacks

Security Affairs

The malware was employed in cryptocurrency mining campaigns and to launch denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. KmsdBot supports multiple architectures, including as Winx86, Arm64, and mips64, x86_64, and does not stay persistent to avoid detection. ” reads the post published by Akamai. ” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Updated Kmsdx botnet targets IoT devices

Security Affairs

The malware was employed in cryptocurrency mining campaigns and to launch denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. KmsdBot supports multiple architectures, including as Winx86, Arm64, and mips64, x86_64, and does not stay persistent to avoid detection. ” reads the report published by Akamai.

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Overview of IoT threats in 2023

SecureList

As if that were not enough, many IoT devices have unalterable main passwords set by manufacturers. 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. Unfortunately, users tend to leave these passwords unchanged.

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The 2022 ThreatLabz State of Ransomware Report

Security Boulevard

Multiple-extortion attacks that utilize data theft, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, customer communications, and more as layered extortion tactics to increase ransom payouts. Manufacturing was the most targeted industry for the second straight year, making up almost 20% of double-extortion ransomware attacks.

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Trend Micro observed notable malware activity associated with the Momentum Botnet

Security Affairs

Experts revealed details on the tools and techniques used by the botnet to compromise Linux devices and recruit them in launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The Momentum bot targets various Linux platforms running upon multiple CPU architectures, including ARM, MIPS, Intel, and Motorola 68020.

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5 IoT Security Predictions for 2019

Security Affairs

We believe this will only grow in 2019 and, because this will increase awareness of threats with IoT users, it will, in turn, accelerate the regulation process, and put more pressure on manufacturers to raise the security bar for their products. For certain, IoT device manufacturers cannot leave IoT cyber security behind much longer.

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