Malwarebytes

JANUARY 9, 2023

This blog post was authored by Jérôme Segura. Digging further into the skimmer's infrastructure on Russian-based hosting provider DDoS-Guard, we came across a digital crime haven for cryptocurrency scams, Bitcoin mixers, malware distribution sites and much more. DDoS-Guard hosting. asn_starts_with=DDOS-GUARD.

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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. Unlike previous campaigns, this last one also uses redirects through Bing search results URLs and through Twitter short t.co All these domains can now be found on IP 190[.]115[.]26.9.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2022

Then it analyzed container images in Docker Hub and popular code libraries and software packages (including PyPI, NPM, Ruby), searching for names and text labels that called for action against either side. “As Both container images also included attack tools that initiate a DNS flood aimed at against Russian banks. UTM Medium. UTM Source.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 20, 2022

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. The primary goal of all this malware is to compromise the devices and systems, pull them into a botnet and use them for distributed denial-of-services (DDoS) attacks, Maganu wrote.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In this blog, we’ll discuss what cyberattacks are, the most common types of attacks your website is likely to face, and most importantly, how you can prevent them. DDoS Attacks. It’s no wonder, then, that the average organization experiences eight DDoS attacks per day. What is a cyberattack?

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SecureList

APRIL 13, 2023

In this blog post, we provide excerpts from the recent reports that focus on uncommon infection methods and describe the associated malware. Online advertising platforms offer advertisers the possibility to bid in order to display brief ads in search engines, such as Google, but also websites, mobile apps and more.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

In November, Fortinet researchers discovered new samples of RapperBot used to build a botnet to launch Distributed DDoS attacks against game servers. The bot kills off other miners by enumerating other running processes and attempts to check the presence of the associated binaries on disk searching for a set of keywords (i.e.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

biz , which frequently blogs about security weaknesses in popular malware tools. ” The accused’s full nickname was likely redacted by forum administrators because a search on the forum for “Lebron” brings up the same post even though it is not visible in any of Vivalamuerte’s threatening messages.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 30, 2021

Is your organization prepared to mitigate Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against mission-critical cloud-based applications? A DDoS attack is a cyber attack that uses bots to flood the targeted server or application with junk traffic, exhausting its resources and disrupting service for real human users. Source: Testbytes.

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BH Consulting

DECEMBER 11, 2023

And when it comes to hiring security roles, it’s always worth asking the question: are you looking for a qualification above all, or is your search broad enough to find smart, motivated people who can gain the skills over time? MORE DDoS hasn’t gone away: ENISA outlines the landscape for this threat.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 19, 2024

QTS, TuTS, and QuTScloud may be updated from the control panel, but the myQNAPcloud requires administrators to log in as administrator and search for myQNAPcloud in the App Center. For those unable to patch quickly, Akamai’s blog provides an OPA rule to add to detect and block potential attacks. or later to fix the flaw.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 28, 2023

They then used sponsored search results to trick users into downloading the malicious extension. DDoS attacks were 16% of the total, while phishing and supply-chain attacks were each involved in 10% of attacks. To stay updated on the latest cybersecurity industry news, look for weekly updates on the (ISC)² blog.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

If you experience a sudden plummet in your search rankings, it’s possible your site fell victim to SEO spam. Websites hosting malicious links are often blacklisted by search engines, which prevents users from accessing your web content. URL redirects. Distributed denial of service. Stealthy Cybersecurity Risks for SMBs.

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Cytelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Here is a blog about the dark web I had written. please elaborate on that ; The dark web, also known as the deep web or darknet, is a part of the internet that is not indexed by search engines and can only be accessed using specialized software such as Tor.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Launching DDoS attacks. Fraudulently boosting search engine rankings for a malicious website. Some of the consequences of malware include: Being removed from search results. Check out this blog for a deeper dive into each of these vulnerabilities. Compromising a website user’s login information. Creating spam.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

It also has different DDoS functionality. The malware maps each function with a string that represents a potential targeted system — such as a signature, which we’ll explain later in this blog (see figure 3). Example 1: Shodan search result for potential targets for specific function. Exploit delivery.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2018

“Although Xiongmai had seven months notice, they have not fixed any of the issues,” the researchers wrote in a blog post published today. That list is available here (PDF) and is also pasted at the conclusion of this post for the benefit of search engines. ” Xiongmai did not respond to requests for comment.

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 8, 2021

The classic distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) tactic is still in use. However, a Google search turned up such proclamations for 2018, 2019, 2020, and even 2021. With 2020, protests came to the USA. There was a rise in web defacements and data theft. Some 200 police departments had records exposed.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

These malicious apps constitute a risk for customers and developers alike—and they can be easily found online using the most common search engines. Most of the observed attacks were crowdsourced distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, website defacements, and data destruction operations.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In this blog we compare celebrities to websites to help illustrate the correlation between website popularity and an increased likelihood of cyberattacks. Spam: Hackers use spam to post comment spam and manipulate search engine results to increase their rankings. Comparing Celebrities to Websites.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2018

According to the Trend Micro blog , “We found a new exploit using port 5555 after detecting two suspicious spikes in activity on July 9-10 and July 15. […] Our data shows that the first wave of network traffic came mainly from China and the US, while the second wave primarily involved Korea.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

The first version spotted by TrendMicro includes a DDoS script that could be used by botmaster to set-up DDoS for-hire service offered on the dark web. Searching for useful information, we found that it has appeared on several honeypots since 2012, the scripts are similar in styles and in techniques implemented.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Search for your account across multiple breaches [link] — Have I Been Pwned (@haveibeenpwned) December 4, 2013 And then, as they say, things kinda escalated quickly. And now, a 10th birthday blog post about what really sticks out a decade later. "Have I been pwned?" " by @troyhunt is now up and running. Toronto Star.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Bogachev is accused of running the Gameover Zeus botnet , a massive crime machine of 500,000 to 1 million infected PCs that was used for large DDoS attacks and for spreading Cryptolocker — a peer-to-peer ransomware threat that was years ahead of its time.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

About 10 malicious servers have been searching the internet for vulnerable systems, and while the search began slowing, it has now ramped up to more than 100 sites by morning, Recorded Future noted , citing information from threat intelligence vendor GreyNoise. Thus, an exposed HTTPS port is a holy grail for malicious attackers.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

However, a recent search on zaxvatmira@gmail.com at the breach tracking service Constella Intelligence returns just one result: An account created in November 2010 at the site searchengines[.]ru ” A search on “r-fac1” at cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 revealed that this user’s introductory post on searchengines[.]ru

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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. Why are DDoS attacks so important to prevent? Stop threats before they spread with automated website scanning and malware removal.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2022

In a blog post published Mar. ” Microsoft says LAPSUS$ also has been known to gain access to victim organizations by deploying the “Redline” password-stealing malware, searching public code repositories for exposed passwords, and purchasing credentials and session tokens from criminal forums.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

In a blog post, Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC) researchers said while they have not observed memory leaks or crashes because of CVE-2020-27223 , a server may take minutes to process a single request. Photo by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas).

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2022

Cryptohost says its service is backstopped by DDoS-Guard , a Russian company that has featured here recently for providing services to the sanctioned terrorist group Hamas and to the conspiracy theory groups QAnon/8chan. “Why choose us? We don’t keep your logs!,”

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

From mining cryptocurrency to launching DDoS attacks against networks, there are countless ways in which malware can access and utilize victim’s computers and data. A common adware program might redirect a user’s browser searches to look-alike web pages that contain other product promotions. Warning signs.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

BlueNoroff continues its search for crypto-currency. Subsequently, DDoS attacks hit some government websites. Our report describes in detail how the MoonBounce implant works and what other traces of activity related to Chinese-speaking actors we were able to observe in the compromised network that could indicate a connection to APT41.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

In their blog, DarkSide’s creators heaped the blame on third-party operators. Ukrainian police searched and arrested members of the Clop group. Detailed IoT threat statistics are published in our Q2 2021 DDoS report: [link]. For the cybercriminals, this sudden notoriety proved unwelcome. Clash with Clop.

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NetSpi Technical

MAY 25, 2023

It allows for efficient prefix-based searches by organizing keys based on their common prefixes. Merkle tries, also known as hash trees, use hashed representations of keys and values to save on search and storage overhead 8. A trie 7 is a generic tree-based data structure used for storing and retrieving key-value pairs.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

That, of course, was not all, but it is an example of how someone -- anyone on the internet -- can take a photo or blog post or Yelp review from social media, or some other seemingly random open source item and tie it back to a crime. And that pursuit of knowledge because it was harder to find things that weren't search engines.

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DoublePulsar

DECEMBER 28, 2023

They’re not a lame DDoS pretend hacktivist group like NoName016 — instead, they claim to be Palestinian state cyber warriors. To lay it out, several factors got my attention as this being unusual: They’re not ransomware or DDoS kids. They appeared in November, and they’ve been very busy and very naughty boys. Might they be Iran?

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