The Last Watchdog

MAY 15, 2023

The physical safety of things like airbags, rearview mirrors, and brakes is well accounted for; yet cybersecurity auto safety concerns are rising to the fore. What used to be a focus on physical safety has now shifted to cybersecurity due to the widened attack surface that connected cars present.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2022

Today the group has announced multiple targets for coordinated DDoS attacks – the resources to be attacked are distributed between so-called “units” who are based on members and volunteers who joined previous and current campaigns.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2023

Cybersecurity Agency Adds 6 Flaws to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter ) The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 425 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2022

The Lithuanian Ministry of Defense announced that Lithuanian state institutions and companies are under a massive DDoS attack. Lithuanian state institutions and companies are under intense DDoS attack. It is likely that similar attacks will continue in the coming days, especially in the transport, energy and financial sectors.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Resecurity, a Los Angeles-based cybersecurity company has identified an active a zero-day vulnerability in the TP-Link device with model number TL-XVR1800L (Enterprise AX1800 Dual Band Gigabit Wi-Fi 6 Wireless VPN Router), which is primarily suited to enterprises. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2022

Besides proprietary tools, they’re leveraging MHDDoS, Blood, Karma DDoS, Hasoki, DDoS Ripper and GoldenEye scripts to generate malicious traffic on Layer 7 which may impact the availability of WEB resources. Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS.

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2021

Uptycs’ threat research team discovered a new botnet, tracked as Simps botnet, attributed to Keksec group, which is focused on DDOS activities. Uptycs’ threat research team has discovered a new Botnet named ‘Simps’ attributed to Keksec group primarily focussed on DDOS activities. see Figure 4 and 5). see Figure 8).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Infiltrating a cybercriminal operation can provide valuable data about different types of malicious activities, including DDoS attacks , malware distribution, and more. In cybersecurity terms, a honeypot is a decoy service or system that poses as a target for malicious actors. Our honeypot setup. It was, however, decreasing over time.

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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. The group released sensitive documents and contracts about an IoT botnet, codename Fronton, built by the contractor 0day Technologies.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2023

Most of the attacks observed by cybersecurity firm GreyNoise originated from the U.S. In December 2022, Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) researchers discovered a new variant of the Zerobot botnet (aka ZeroStresser) that was improved with the capabilities to target more Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2022

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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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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Endpoint: Enables access for human users and computer services and commonly includes PCs, laptops, Internet of Things (IoT), and operational technology (OT). Internet of Things (IoT) security: Encompasses a variety of tools and techniques to secure IoT, operations technology (OT), and other similar categories of endpoints.

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The year 2016 will be remembered for some big moments in the world of cybersecurity: the largest known distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, a phishing attack on a United States presidential candidate’s campaign, and ransomware attacks on major healthcare organizations are just a few.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

fitness chains Town Sports leaked online Group-IB detects a series of ransomware attacks by OldGremlin HOW DO PROVIDERS IMPLEMENT INTERNET BLOCKING IN BELARUS? Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 29, 2022

In fact, in the cybersecurity world, you can’t protect something if you have no idea where the threat exists. . . As a result, asset management has become an essential part of the base of cybersecurity processes in all sorts of businesses. . . 9 ways through which ITAM can decrease cybersecurity threats.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

Researchers from FortiGuard Labs first discovered the previously undetected RapperBot IoT botnet in August, and reported that it is active since mid-June 2022. In November, Fortinet researchers discovered new samples of RapperBot used to build a botnet to launch Distributed DDoS attacks against game servers.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The data was first indexed by IoT devices on March 8th, 2023. Cybersecurity neglect endangers gamblers Failure to properly set authentication poses significant risks, as merely knowing the website’s domain is enough for an attacker to access user data. User security log.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Exclusive: MalwareMustDie analyzes a new IoT malware dubbed Linux/ AirDropBot. Gucci IOT Bot Discovered Targeting European Region. Singapore presented the Operational Technology (OT) Cybersecurity Masterplan. Zendesk 2016 security breach may impact Uber, Slack, and other organizations. Teheran: U.S. Organizations.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2021

The main payloads allow the malware to launch DDoS attacks, sniff and exfiltre network traffic using a SOCKS proxy and install XMRig Monero cryptocurrency mining software. ” The latest versions also implement polymorphic abilities, like other IoT botnets, the malware targets small and home office (SOHO) routers.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2021

Upon compromising an IoT device, the malicious code connects to the Cyberium domain to retrieve a bash script that is used as a downloader similarly to other Mirai variants. The botnet was designed to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks like the original Mirai bot. ” continues the report.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, February 2021. I wrote a blog post about my concerns given Linux is embedded everywhere, yet many of these systems are rarely, and even never updated with security updates.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Botnets : Networks of compromised computers are controlled by a central attacker and used for various malicious activities such as launching coordinated distributed denial of service ( DDoS ) attacks, providing a staging point for attacks on other victims, or distributing spam.

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Software Data breaches DDOS Ransomware 98

Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2021

It is not new information that insiders pose the most significant cybersecurity risk to enterprises. When manipulated with a malicious payload, these Rogue Devices can carry out several harmful attacks such as data exfiltration, espionage, malware injection, MiTM, DDoS, and more.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2022

It tries to drop a downloader that exhibits infection behavior and that also executes Moobot, which is a DDoS botnet based on Mirai.” Organizations need to adopt a ETLM powered risk-based approach to cybersecurity decision making to minimize possible exposures and threats coming their way.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Attackers could abuse the issue to carry out various malicious activities, including DoS and DDoS attacks. The expert also discovered that the devices were also using the Wi-Fi ESP8266 chipset that is affected by a flaw that could be exploited by an attacker to download and install new firmware, and reboot Xiaomi FurryTail pet feeders.

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