The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2019

A couple of high-profile distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks will surely go down in history as watershed events – each for different reasons. Related: IoT botnets now available for economical DDoS blasts. His blog, Krebs on Security , was knocked down alright. DDoS attacks aren’t going to go away anytime soon.

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Heimadal Security

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Bandwidth.com is a VoIP services company that is providing voice telephony over the Internet to businesses and resellers. VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) is a technology that turns a human’s voice into an electrical signal, enabling calls from a computer, a VoIP phone, or other data-driven devices.

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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 10, 2023

A new DDoS technique named ‘HTTP/2 Rapid Reset’ is actively employed in attacks since August enabling record-breaking attacks. Researchers disclosed a new zero-day DDoS attack technique, named ‘HTTP/2 Rapid Reset’, that was exploited since August in record-breaking attacks. ” concludes the report. .”

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Security Boulevard

MAY 4, 2023

On April 25, 2023, researchers at Bitsight and Curesec jointly discovered a high-severity vulnerability — tracked as CVE-2023-29552 — in the Service Location Protocol (SLP), a legacy Internet protocol. Developed by the […] The post CVE-2023-29552: Abusing the SLP Protocol to Launch Massive DDoS Amplification Attacks appeared first on Blog.

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Heimadal Security

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

For the last month, a new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet has been attacking the Russian internet company Yandex. ris Botnet Breaks DDoS Record appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. ris Botnet Breaks DDoS Record appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. million requests per second.

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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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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2021

Cloudflare last month fought off a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by a botnet that was bombarding 17.2 million requests per second (rps) at one of the internet infrastructure company’s customers in the financial services space. DDoS Attacks on the Rise. That prediction proved correct.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2022

Microsoft in November fended off a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in its Azure cloud that officials said was the largest ever recorded, the latest in a wave of record attacks that washed over the IT industry in the second half of 2021. Also read: How to Stop DDoS Attacks: 6 Tips for Fighting DDoS Attacks.

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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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Graham Cluley

JUNE 15, 2022

The US authorities have sentenced a man to 24 months in a federal prison after he was found to have run a DDoS-for-hire service that knocked websites off the internet. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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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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Heimadal Security

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As my colleague Cezarina explained in a previous article, a botnet is a network of infected computers or other internet-connected devices, that communicate with each other in order to perform the same malicious actions. The post DDoS Operator Arrested by the Ukrainian Police appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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Graham Cluley

MARCH 27, 2023

There's bad news if you're someone who is keen to launch a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack to boot a website off the internet, but don't have the know-how to do it yourself. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The largest and oldest bank in Russia Sberbank faced the record-breaking DDoS attack that reached 1 million RPS. Sberbank , the Russian banking and financial services giant, announced that it was recently hit by a record-breaking distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that reached 1 million RPS. reads the post published by Google.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Earlier this month, an internet outage affected public healthcare clusters in Singapore, including major hospitals and polyclinics, lasting more than seven hours from 9:20 am. Investigations identified that a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack was the cause of the online service outage.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 23, 2021

Security firm Cloudflare successfully detected and mitigated a DDoS attack that peaked at 17.2 Omer Yoachimik, Product Manager of Cloudflare's DDoS Protection Service, discusses the scale of the attack: "For perspective on how large this attack was: Cloudflare serves over 25 million HTTP requests per second on average.

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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. .” Duke-Cohan — a.k.a.

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Graham Cluley

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Last month, as North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong-un oversaw a series of sabre-rattling hypersonic missile tests, cyber attacks disrupted the country's internet infrastructure. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. But who was responsible?

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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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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

Other Privnote phishing domains that also phoned home to the same Internet address as pirwnote[.]com com is currently selling security cameras made by the Chinese manufacturer Hikvision , via an Internet address based in Hong Kong. Searching DomainTools for domains that include both of these terms reveals pirwnote[.]com.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

million servers running the RPCBIND service from being used in amplified DDoS attacks. The exploitation of this vulnerability could cause major problems on the Internet. million servers running RPCBIND on the Internet. The Brazilian version of the post is available on the author’s blog. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2022

There are two important factors to take into consideration here: identifying the weak links in the connectivity supply chain and understanding why NETSCOUT is seeing so many more DDoS attacks against this vital business artery than other companies are reporting. To read this article in full, please click here

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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. For example, search in Google for the terms “booter” or “stresser” from a U.K. FLATTENING THE CURVE.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2023

The French Senate’s website was taken offline by a DDoS attack launched by the pro-Russian hacker group NoName. The pro-Russia hacker group NoName is claiming responsibility for a DDoS attack that took the website of the French Senate offline. We apologize for the inconvenience caused.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2022

The responsibility of the new division includes “cyber sabotage”, disruption of Internet resources, data theft and financial intelligence focused on NATO, their members and allies. sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog”) To nominate, please visit:?

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 26, 2023

Content delivery network (CDN) and cloud security services provider Akamai Technologies has added a network cloud firewall capability to its cloud-based DDoS platform, Akamai Prolexic. To read this article in full, please click here

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This means that the majority of your website traffic could be coming from Internet bots, rather than humans. A bot is a software application that runs automated tasks over the Internet. Bad bots perform malicious tasks such as, DDoS attacks, website scraping and comment spam. Botnets and DDoS Attacks. Website Spammers.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

If the Mirai botnet exploits a vulnerable machine, the operators will drop one of the Mirai DDoS botnet versions and close port 5896 on the internet to prevent other attackers from exploiting the same box. The post McAfee Enterprise Defender Blog | OMIGOD Vulnerability Opening the Door to Mirai Botnet appeared first on McAfee Blogs.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2022

Fronton is a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet that was used by Russia-linked threat actors for coordinated disinformation campaigns. This release noted that DDoS “is only one of the many capabilities of the system.” “Nisos research focused on the distribution of the numerous content types. ” continues the report.

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Webroot

MARCH 9, 2021

In that spirit, we put together this blog post to explain the different hacker types and methods they use against us. Once the criminal redirects internet traffic to malicious websites or takes control of servers, the damage is inevitable. appeared first on Webroot Blog. The post Who’s Hacking You?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Uptycs researchers have observed attacks related to miners, DDOS malware and some variants of ransomware actively leveraging LogforShell flaw in log4j. Last week the Log4j vulnerability turned the internet upside down. Uptycs has already shared details about remediation and detection steps for its customers in the previous blog.

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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 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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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. The botnet targets multiple architectures, including arm, bsd, x64, and x86.

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