Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2021

A suspicious wave of attacks resulted in the hack of four cybercrime forums Verified, Crdclub, Exploit, and Maza since January. Since January, a series of mysterious cyberattacks that resulted in the hack of popular Russian-language cybercrime forums. No other information looked to be compromised in the attack.”

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

Hunt also verified the authenticity of the information included in the stolen archive. The Internet Archive founder, Brewster Kahle, also confirmed that the platform was hit by a DDoS attack that took the website offline several times. At this time, no one has claimed responsibility for this security breach.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

According to the alert, the ransomware gang is launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks as part of its extortion activities. In some cases, if the victim does not respond quickly or does not pay the ransom, the threat actors will launch a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on the victim company’s public facing website.”

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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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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Several media reported that three million electric toothbrushes were compromised and recruited into a DDoS botnet. The Swiss newspaper Aargauer Zeitung first published the news of a DDoS attack, carried out on January 30, that involved three million compromised electric toothbrushes. Is it true? What the f is wrong with you people????

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NOVEMBER 16, 2024

A botnet employed in DDoS or cryptomining attacks is exploiting a zero-day in end-of-life GeoVision devices to grow up. ” The botnet was used to carry out DDoS or cryptomining attacks. ” reads the advisory published by TWCERT.

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JANUARY 8, 2025

Gayfemboy, a Mirai botnet variant, has been exploiting a flaw in Four-Faith industrial routers to launch DDoS attacks since November 2024. Operators behind the botnet also launched DDoS attacks against researchers tracking it. With no DDoS protection, the team stopped resolving the domains. Key targets include China, the U.S.,

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JUNE 17, 2020

Tbps DDoS attack, the largest ever, which surpassed the previous record of 1.7 Amazon announced it has mitigated the largest ever DDoS attack of 2.3 ” The report didn’t name the target of the DDoS attack, AWS experts only revealed that the magnitude was obtained with CLDAP reflection attack. Pierluigi Paganini.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

A threat actor has leaked the source code for the first version of the HelloKitty ransomware on a Russian-speaking cybercrime forum. The availability of the source in the cybercrime ecosystem can allow threat actors to develop their own version of the Hello Kitty ransomware. The HelloKitty gang has been active since January 2021.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Cloudflare recently mitigated a new record-breaking DDoS attack, peaking at 3.8 Cloudflare reported that starting from early September, it has mitigated over 100 hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks, with many exceeding 2 billion Pps and 3 Tbps. The largest DDoS attack peaked at 3.8 The largest DDoS attack peaked at 3.8

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The Russian internet service provider Yandex is under a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that began last week. The record magnitude of the massive DDoS attack was also confirmed by the US company Cloudflare, which specializes in the protection against such kinds of attacks. SecurityAffairs – hacking, DDoS).

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OCTOBER 13, 2022

Cloudflare mitigated a record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Wynncraft, one of the largest Minecraft servers. Cloudflare announced it has mitigated a record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Wynncraft, one of the largest Minecraft servers. The largest attack was a 2.5 ” continues the report.

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AUGUST 20, 2021

Web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare announced to have mitigated the largest ever volumetric DDoS attack to date. Cloudflare, the web infrastructure and website security company, announced that it has mitigated the largest ever volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack to date.

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JUNE 26, 2020

A man accused to have developed distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnets based on the Mirai botnet was sentenced to 13 months in federal prison. Schuchman compromised hundreds of thousands of IoT devices, including home routers and IP cameras, to create multiple DDoS IoT botnets that he rented to carry out the attacks.

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MARCH 7, 2021

The REvil ransomware operators are using DDoS attacks and voice calls to journalists and victim’s business partners to force victims to pay the ransom. Malware #Ransomware #REvil REvil Ransomware launched a service for contact to news media, companies for the best pressure at no cost, and DDoS (L3, L7) as a paid service.

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APRIL 1, 2021

Akamai has recently involved in the mitigation of two of the largest known ransom DDoS attacks, one of them peaked at 800Gbps. CDN and cybersecurity firm Akamai warns of a worrying escalation in ransom DDoS attacks since the beginning of the year. ” Likely DDoS extortion attacks. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransom DDoS).

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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Cloudflare announced to have mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at almost 2 terabytes per second (Tbps). is an American web infrastructure and website security company that provides content delivery network and DDoS mitigation services. SecurityAffairs – hacking, DDoS). Cloudflare, Inc.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Qihoo 360’s Netlab detailed a new evolving DDoS botnet called Abcbot with wormable capabilities that targets Linux systems. Researchers from Qihoo 360’s Netlab security team have spotted a new botnet, tracked as Abcbot, that targets Linux systems to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The massive DDoS attack that has been targeting the internet giant Yandex was powered b a completely new botnet tracked as M?ris. The record magnitude of the massive DDoS attack was also confirmed by the US company Cloudflare, which specializes in the protection against such kinds of attacks. technique for DDoS attacks.

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JUNE 17, 2023

Polish police, as part of the international law enforcement operation PowerOFF, dismantled a DDoS-for-hire service that has been active since at least 2013. An international operation codenamed PowerOff led to the shutdown of a DDoS-for-hire service that has been active since at least 2013. Viewer discretion is advised.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

Ukrainian police arrested a cybercriminal who controlled a botnet composed of 100,000 devices that was available for rent to launch DDoS attacks. Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has arrested a hacker who controlled a DDoS botnet composed of 100,000 devices that was available for rent. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2024

The Mexican Drug Cartels Want You Casio: Notice of Partial Service Outage and Information Leak Caused by Ransomware Attack He founded a “startup” to access sanctioned Russian websites: the cyber police of Khmelnytskyi region exposed the hacker Hacked ‘AI Girlfriend’ Data Shows Prompts Describing Child Sexual Abuse Malware Over 300,000!

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

Dutch police seized a bulletproof hosting service in a major takedown, the infrastructure was used by tens of IoT botnets involved in DDoS attacks. The servers were hosted at an unnamed data center in Amsterdam, it was used by tens of IoT botnets involved in DDoS attacks worldwide. ” continues the statement. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A Mirai-based DDoS botnet tracked as IZ1H9 has added thirteen new exploits to target routers from different vendors, including D-Link, Zyxel, and TP-Link. The botnet supports multiple DDoS attacks, including UDP, HTTP Flood, UDP Plain, and TCP SYN. “The exposure of vulnerable devices can result in severe security risks.

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MARCH 7, 2022

In 2020, researchers from Athens University School of Information Sciences and Technology in Greece showed (PDF) how ransomware-as-a-service offerings might one day be executed through smart contracts. Before that, Jeffrey Ladish , an information security consultant based in Oakland, Calif., We release ddos.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2024

CISA adds PTZOptics camera bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Canadian authorities arrested alleged Snowflake hacker Android flaw CVE-2024-43093 may be under limited, targeted exploitation July 2024 ransomware attack on the City of Columbus impacted 500,000 people Nigerian man Sentenced to 26+ years in real estate phishing scams Russian (..)

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Fortinet researchers discovered new samples of RapperBot used to build a botnet to launch Distributed DDoS attacks against game servers. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researchers have discovered new samples of the RapperBot malware that are being used to build a DDoS botnet to target game servers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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JULY 8, 2022

Ukraine has been targeted with a wide variety of cyber activity leading up to and since the invasion, including distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and defacements and attempted destructive activity attributed to Russian state-sponsored actors.” ” concludes IBM. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Cybersecurity company Imperva announced to have mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack with a total of over 25.3 Cybersecurity firm Imperva mitigated a DDoS attack with over 25.3 According to the experts, the attack marks a new record for Imperva’s application DDoS mitigation solution. billion requests.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

The DoJ charged Anonymous Sudan members and disrupted their DDoS infrastructure, halting its cyber operations. However, some security researchers believe Anonymous Sudan is a sub-group of the pro-Russian threat group Killnet. The feds also seized the accounts containing the source code for their DDoS tools.

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

Threat actors initially compromised the devices, and then employed them in DDoS attacks. These systems have been infected with the Mirai malware and were subsequently used as a DDOS attack source to other devices accessible by their network.” ” read the report published by Juniper Networks.

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JUNE 19, 2023

Cado researchers recently detected an interesting attack pattern linked to an emerging cybercrime group tracked as Diicot (formerly, “Mexals”) and described in analyses published by Akamai and Bitdefender. Evidence collected by Cado suggests the deployment of a botnet having DDoS capabilities.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2024

CISA adds Palo Alto Networks Expedition bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Hackers target critical flaw CVE-2024-10914 in EOL D-Link NAS Devices China-linked threat actors compromised multiple telecos and spied on a limited number of U.S.

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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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MARCH 25, 2023

National Crime Agency (NCA) revealed that it has set up a number of fake DDoS-for-hire sites to infiltrate the online criminal underground. The UK National Crime Agency announced it has infiltrated the online criminal marketplace by setting up several sites purporting to offer DDoS-for-hire services. In December, the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Cloudflare mitigated a record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) that reached 71 Million requests per second. Cloudflare announced it has mitigated a record hyper-volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at over 71 million requests per second (RPS). “This was a weekend of record-breaking DDoS attacks.

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JUNE 2, 2021

Group-IB discovered a database allegedly belonging to a bulletproof hosting provider DDoS-Guard posted for sale on a cybercrime forum. The database supposedly contains information about DDoS-Guard’s customers, including their names, IP-addresses, and payment information. SecurityAffairs – hacking, DDoS-Guard).

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