The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 27, 2018
A nascent cottage industry is starting to gel around DDoS botnets-for-hire , comprised of millions of compromised IoT devices. IoT botnets can be hired to execute smaller-scaled DDoS attacks designed to knock out a networked application, rather than a whole website. IoT force multiplier. But that’s not all.
Security Affairs
APRIL 6, 2019
Security experts at Bad Packets uncovered a DNS hijacking campaign that is targeting the users of popular online services, including Gmail, Netflix, and PayPal. Hackers compromised consumer routers and modified the DNS settings to redirect users to fake websites designed to trick victims into providing their login credentials.
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Security Boulevard
MARCH 6, 2024
Since bad actors need to communicate back to their C2, digital exhaust often takes the form of DNS records , which if monitored properly allows organizations to detect anomalous patterns and stop the communications, and thus the breach, before the criminals can do any major harm. That's where technologies like protective DNS come in.
CyberSecurity Insiders
MAY 18, 2022
But what are your options for proactive protection when the notion of a walled-in network has been shattered by the proliferation of new IoT devices, growth of cloud services, and new hybrid work from home models? So why aren’t more organizations taking advantage of protective DNS? The issue likely comes down to awareness.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
The attack was launched by a Mirai botnet variant composed of 15,000 bots, it combined DNS amplification attacks and UDP floods. The botnet included Internet of Things (IoT) devices and GitLab instances. “This was a multi-vector attack combining DNS amplification attacks and UDP floods.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 20, 2021
Mozi is an IoT botnet that borrows the code from Mirai variants and the Gafgyt malware , it appeared on the threat landscape in late 2019. Now researchers from Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence Center and Section 52 at Azure Defender for IoT have monitored a new evolution of the threat that extent the list of targets. .
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 29, 2020
“CISA, FBI, and HHS have credible information of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to U.S. In early 2019, researchers spotted a new TrickBot backdoor framework dubbed Anchor that was using the anchor_dns tool for abusing the DNS protocol for C2 communications. hospitals and healthcare providers. Pierluigi Paganini.
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