Security Boulevard

AUGUST 1, 2022

The post This was H1 2022 – Part 1 – The Fight Against Cybercrime appeared first on Radware Blog. The post This was H1 2022 – Part 1 – The Fight Against Cybercrime appeared first on Security Boulevard. To make matters worse, there was a lack of skilled security professionals who could […].

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 22, 2021

Cybersecurity geeks may already know this historical tidbit… The first DDoS attack occurred back in 1999, when a computer at the University of Minnesota suddenly came under attack from a network of 114 other computers infected with a malicious script called Trin00.

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Security Affairs

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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Heimadal Security

MARCH 8, 2021

There seem to be no boundaries for ransomware innovation as cybercrime gangs, such as REvil Ransomware (aka Sodinokibi), are always looking for new ways to make crypto-locking malware even more profitable.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In December, Canada’s Laurentian University reported a DDoS attack. Educational institutions are recommended to use anti-DDoS solutions and strong firewall settings, and partner up with ISPs. In early October, a DDoS attack was reported by the PUBG Mobile team. But it dealt with the problem in a matter of minutes.

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Security Affairs

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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Graham Cluley

JANUARY 19, 2022

Britain's computer crime cops are targeting youngsters as young as nine years old in an attempt to dissuade them from embarking on a life of cybercrime. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

One of many tweets from the attention-starved Apophis Squad, which launched multiple DDoS attacks against KrebsOnsecurity and Protonmail over the past few months. ” The DDoS-for-hire service run by Apophis Squad listed their members. .” to San Francisco last month. Duke-Cohan — a.k.a.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

For example, this account at Medium has authored more than a dozen blog posts in the past year singing the praises of Tornote as a secure, self-destructing messaging service. Throughout 2023, Tornote was hosted with the Russian provider DDoS-Guard , at the Internet address 186.2.163[.]216. io seem like a legitimate website.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2022

Researchers at cybersecurity firm Cyble analyzed a Tor website named named ‘Eternity Project’ that offers for sale a broad range of malware, including stealers, miners, ransomware, and DDoS Bots. We have encountered the Eternity products being sold on one such Telegram channel and TOR website.” To nominate, please visit:?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter ) The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 417 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 25, 2022

Folks, Who wants to dive deep into some of my latest commercially available research and stay on the top of their OSINT/cybercrime research and threat intelligence gathering game that also includes their team and organization? Dancho Danchev’s “Intell on the Criminal Underground – Who’s Who in Cybercrime for ” Presentation – [PDF].

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2023

The Mirai botnet that is behind the attacks observed by ZDI is focused on launching DDoS attacks, it has the capability to target Valve Source Engine (VSE). This can be used to launch a Valve Source Engine (VSE) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against game servers.” ” continues the report.

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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 researchers attribute the botnet to the cybercrime group Keksec which focuses on DDoS-based extortion. Upon installing the threat, the bot drops a file in /tmp/.pwned

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2023

The ShellBot , also known as PerlBot, is a Perl-based DDoS bot that uses IRC protocol for C2 communications. The three variants can launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, PowerBots (C) GohacK and B0tchZ 0.2a Compromised victims can be controlled and used as DDoS bots after receiving a command from a C2 server. .”

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 18, 2023

This has projected costs associated with cybercrimes to hit the tens of trillions by 2025, highlighting the vital need for web hosts to implement staunch security. Gainesville, Fla., July 18, 2022 – Around 30,000 websites get hacked every day , with the majority of those cyberattacks due to human error.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That reporting was based on clues from an early Russian cybercrime forum in which a hacker named Rescator — using the same profile image that Rescator was known to use on other forums — claimed to have originally been known as “Helkern,” the nickname chosen by the administrator of a cybercrime forum called Darklife.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

biz , which frequently blogs about security weaknesses in popular malware tools. is cybercrime forum. “We can examine your (or not exactly your) PHP code for vulnerabilities and backdoors,” reads his offering on several prominent Russian cybercrime forums. The cybercrime actor “upO” on Exploit[.]in

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Webroot

MARCH 9, 2021

One of the reasons why there’s so much cybercrime is because there are so many ways for cybercriminals to exploit vulnerabilities and circumvent even the best defenses. In that spirit, we put together this blog post to explain the different hacker types and methods they use against us. appeared first on Webroot Blog.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2023

Please vote for Security Affairs ( [link] ) as the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS Vote for me in the sections where is reported Securityaffairs or my name Pierluigi Paganini Please nominate Security Affairs as your favorite blog.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2022

sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog”). Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs for free in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. To nominate, please visit:?.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

Please vote for Security Affairs ( [link] ) as the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS Vote for me in the sections where is reported Securityaffairs or my name Pierluigi Paganini Please nominate Security Affairs as your favorite blog.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2022

Other products available in the cybercrime underground are email databases, most of them are dumps that threat actors aggregate from past dumps. Dark Web Index 2022 also lists malware infections and DDoS attacks. sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog”).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2022

Recent Russian state-sponsored cyber operations have included distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks , and older operations have included deployment of destructive malware against Ukrainian government and critical infrastructure organizations.” ” read the advisory. To nominate, please visit:? Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2022

Researchers warn of a remote access trojan called DCRat (aka DarkCrystal RAT) that is available for sale on Russian cybercrime forums. Cybersecurity researchers from BlackBerry are warning of a remote access trojan called DCRat (aka DarkCrystal RAT) that is available for sale on Russian cybercrime forums. To nominate, please visit:?

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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. He previously chronicled the emergence of cybercrime while covering Microsoft for USA TODAY.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 27, 2022

Blogs Blog Killnet, Kaliningrad, and Lithuania’s Transport Standoff With Russia Russian cyber collective Killnet has taken responsibility for today’s DDoS attacks on the Lithuanian government and private institutions; Lithuania holds its ground on rail closure. Begin your free trial today. Contact Sales.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Here are our top 4 cybersecurity tips your business can deploy now to get proactive on preventing data breaches , site defacement, DDoS attacks and other threats that put your sites at risk. Because cybercrime is big business (and the fastest-growing type of crime), new attack methods are always arising.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2022

A DDoS attack took down Finnish govt sites as Ukraine’s President addresses MPs SharkBot Banking Trojan spreads through fake AV apps on Google Play China-linked threat actors target Indian Power Grid organizations A Mirai-based botnet is exploiting the Spring4Shell vulnerability? To nominate, please visit:? Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 11, 2021

Here’s a closer look at the DarkSide cybercrime gang, as seen through their negotiations with a recent U.S. “We are apolitical, we do not participate in geopolitics, do not need to tie us with a defined government and look for other our motives [sic],” reads an update to the DarkSide Leaks blog.

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Webroot

JANUARY 7, 2022

In particular, we witnessed an increase in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and a surge in the usage of the internet of things (IoT). The cybercrime marketplace also continued to get more robust while the barrier to entry for malicious actors continued to drop. Suffice to say, a lot has been happening at once.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2019

The popular expert unixfreaxjp analyzed a new China ELF DDoS’er malware tracked as “Linux/DDoSMan” that evolves from the Elknot malware to deliver new ELF bot. The code seems inspired from multiple source code of China basis DDoS client, like Elknot. On the MMD blog. Non-Technical-Premise.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Wanted Ukrainian cybercrime suspect Vyacheslav “Tank” Penchukov (right) was arrested in Geneva, Switzerland. Ultimately, Penchukov’s political connections helped him evade prosecution by Ukrainian cybercrime investigators for many years. This was enough to positively identify Tank as Penchukov, Warner said.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

” The CyberArmyofRussia_Reborn Telegram channel was used by Russia-linked actors to leak stolen data and carry out DDoS attacks against selected targets. . “Both the YouTube channel, terminated upon identification, and Instagram account received minimal engagement with a negligible number of subscribers or followers.”

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Learn from the examples we provide in this blog as SiteLock President, Neill Feather, weighs in on why cybersecurity should matter to you. Students Pay for Cybercrime. Take it from Rutgers University, which experienced six DDoS attacks in 2015 – one of which lasted as long as five days. Neill Feather.

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BH Consulting

JUNE 13, 2023

SC Magazine noted Verizon’s finding that DDoS attacks are getting worse. Verizon points out that cybercrime risk crosses all sectors regardless of industry vertical, but it provides 10 sectoral snapshots to help readers understand the threats in more depth. MORE Have you ever experienced post-breach stress syndrome?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

” Recently, the threat actors moved all their domains from Cloudflare to the Russian bulletproof hosting services provider DDoS-Guard. “On some infected sites we also find a similarly obfuscated injection in files like wp- blog-header.php. All these domains can now be found on IP 190[.]115[.]26.9. URLs like t[.]co/Xa4ZRqsp8C

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