Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Agency Warns Employees About Phone Use Amid Ongoing China Hack APT Actors Embed Malware within macOS Flutter Applications The Botnet is Back: SSC STRIKE Team Uncovers a Renewed Cyber Threat Iranian “Dream Job” Campaign 11.24

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Penetration Testing

JUNE 10, 2025

Skip to content June 11, 2025 Linkedin Twitter Facebook Youtube Daily CyberSecurity Primary Menu Home Cyber Security Cybercriminals Data Leak Linux Malware Attack Open Source Tool Technology Vulnerability Submit Press Release Search for: Home News Vulnerability Avaya CMS Exposed to Unauthorized Remote Command Attacks: CVSS 9.9

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Security Boulevard

JULY 25, 2024

As per recent media reports, the vulnerability is exploited to deliver crypto miners, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnets, and remote access trojans. The post PHP Vulnerability Used For Malware And DDOS Attacks appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Penetration Testing

JUNE 11, 2025

Skip to content June 12, 2025 Linkedin Twitter Facebook Youtube Daily CyberSecurity Primary Menu Home Cyber Security Cybercriminals Data Leak Linux Malware Attack Open Source Tool Technology Vulnerability Submit Press Release Search for: Home News Vulnerability Root Access Unlocked: Public PoC Exposes GlobalProtect macOS Privilege Escalation Flaw Vulnerability (..)

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 7, 2023

By Microsoft Security Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks represent a significant threat for enterprise businesses. They start when an individual device (bot) or network of devices (botnet) is infected with malware. To read this article in full, please click here

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2024

“This article looks at their infected traffic and offers insights into these botnets.” The script uses various methods like “wget,” “ftpget,” “curl,” and “tftp” to download the malware. The malware kills known botnet processes to ensure it remains the only one running.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The Computer Emergency Response Team in Ukraine (CERT-UA) reported that a PurpleFox malware campaign had already infected at least 2,000 computers in the country. Experts defined DirtyMoe as a complex malware that has been designed as a modular system. ” reads the alert published by CERT-UA.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

In 2012 KrebsOnSecurity wrote about the plight of Yuriy “Jtk” Konovalenko , a then 30-year-old Ukrainian man who was rounded up as part of an international crackdown on an organized crime gang that used the ZeuS malware to steal tens of millions of dollars from companies and consumers. Attorney Adam Alexander.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2023

Researchers warn of several DDoS botnets exploiting a critical flaw tracked as CVE-2023-28771 in Zyxel devices. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researchers warned of multiple DDoS botnets exploiting a vulnerability impacting multiple Zyxel firewalls. Mirai botnets are frequently used to conduct DDoS attacks.”

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 4, 2022

A botnet is a collection of internet-connected devices that an attacker has compromised to carry out DDoS attacks and other tasks as a swarm. To read this article in full, please click here The idea is that each computer becomes a mindless robot in a larger network of identical robots, which gives the word botnet its meaning.

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Trend Micro

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The IRC bot is called TNTbotinger and is capable of distributed denial of service (DDoS). We discuss TeamTNT’s latest attack, which involves the use of the group’s own IRC (Internet Relay Chat) bot.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2020

In a few days back, the MalwareMustDie team’s security researcher unixfreaxjp has published a new Linux malware analysis of Fbot that has focused on the decryption of the last encryption logic used by its bot client. This article explains what we have learned about the Fbot traced back from the year of 2014.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

A new variant of Mirai — the botnet malware used to launch massive DDoS attacks —has been targeting 13 vulnerabilities in IoT devices connected to Linux servers, according to researchers at Palo Alto Network’s Unit 42 cybersecurity team. To read this article in full, please click here

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Penetration Testing

JUNE 9, 2025

ShadowPad, a privately sold modular malware platform, was used in a global campaign spanning June 2024 to March 2025, compromising victims in manufacturing, government, finance, telecom, and research. If this article helped you, please share it with others who might benefit.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 31, 2024

In February, a Swiss newspaper article included an anecdote about a Distributed Denial-of-Service attack, or DDoS attack. DDoS attacks involve sending loads of connection requests (like regular internet traffic) to a certain webpage as a way to briefly overwhelm that web page and take it down. But it most assuredly had not.

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Graham Cluley

JULY 20, 2022

An app which purported to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the internet infrastructure of Russia, was in reality secretly installing malware on to the devices of pro-Ukrainian activists. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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Penetration Testing

JUNE 15, 2025

Skip to content June 16, 2025 Linkedin Twitter Facebook Youtube Daily CyberSecurity Primary Menu Home Cyber Criminals Cyber Security Data Leak Linux Malware Vulnerability Submit Press Release Vulnerability Report Windows Search for: Home News Vulnerability Report Critical Blink Router Flaws (CVSS 9.8)

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IT Security Guru

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This article will examine some of the most pressing threats to global national security today, with a particular emphasis on emerging digital and environmental concerns. Types of Cybersecurity Threats Malware and Ransomware: These can disable systems or steal data for ransom.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. CISA adds Craft CMS and Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Atlassian fixed critical flaws in Confluence and Crowd Salt Typhoon used custom malware JumbledPath to spy U.S. Lazarus APT stole $1.5B

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2025

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 28, 2020

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2022

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Greek intelligence service used surveillance malware to spy on a journalist, Reuters reports Slack resets passwords for about 0.5% A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 7, 2023

billion people by using malware. It’s a type of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that uses a script to automatically send messages. They shouldn’t attempt to unsubscribe — even though it may reduce future spam — because it could install malware or direct them to an illegitimate website. Change Passwords.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 13, 2025

In this article, we'll explore how AI enhances cybersecurity, its key benefits, and why businesses are increasingly relying on AI-driven security solutions. These platforms can automatically recognize and classify threatening behavior such as suspicious network activity, phishing attacks, and transmission of malware.

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Penetration Testing

JUNE 12, 2025

If this article helped you, please share it with others who might benefit. Related Posts: 160GB of confidential data leaked, PC giant Acer confirms its servers were hacked High vulnerability affects Acer UEFI firmware Android system is also affected by Linux kernel Dirty Pipe flaw, Google is fixing it Rate this post Found this helpful?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2025

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Penetration Testing

JUNE 17, 2025

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SecureList

JUNE 6, 2025

In this article, we describe the new Mirai bot features and its revamped infection vector. Adding decrypted strings to the global list Anti-VM and anti-emulation To detect if it is currently running inside a virtual machine or QEMU, the malware lists all processes until it finds any mention of VMware or QEMU-arm.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2022

The gang was targeting organizations via spam campaigns to spread ransomware, however, the police did not disclose the malware family used by the group in its attacks. The group was also carrying out DDoS attacks to paralyze the networks of the victims and force them to pay the ransom. ” continues the press release.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 24, 2022

The Shields Up warning is in direct response to increased Russian cyber aggression against Ukrainian and other targets in the region, including recent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and malware attacks. To read this article in full, please click here organizations from Russia or hackers acting on Russia's behalf.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2022

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2020

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SecureList

APRIL 29, 2025

In this article, we provide details from a real incident contained by Kaspersky, as well as publicly available telemetry data about the countries and territories most frequently targeted by the threat actor. Tactics, techniques and procedures Below are the Outlaw TTPs identified from our malware analysis.

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