eSecurity Planet

JULY 7, 2023

Mention the acronym DDoS to a web admin and they’ll likely break out in a cold sweat. DDoS, or Distributed Denial of Service attacks, are some of the most malicious and difficult-to-stop network attacks that can be launched against a website or any other DDoS-susceptible service, such as a SaaS platform.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The Google Cloud team revealed that in September 2017 it has mitigated DDoS attack that reached 2.54 Tbps, the largest DDoS attack of ever. The Google Cloud team revealed that back in September 2017 it has mitigated a powerful DDoS attack that clocked at 2.54 Tbps DDoS attack mitigated by Amazon’s AWS in February.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 27, 2018

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks continue to erupt all across the Internet showing not the faintest hint of leveling off, much less declining, any time soon. Related video: How DDoS attacks leverage the Internet’s DNA. DDoS attacks are evolving to become more diverse. GitHub’s logo. But that’s not all.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 11, 2022

John Todd is general manager of Quad9 , a free “anycast” DNS platform. DNS stands for Domain Name System, which is like a globally distributed phone book for the Internet that maps human-friendly website names (example.com) to numeric Internet addresses (8.8.4.4.) that are easier for computers to manage.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2022

Russian government released a list containing IP addresses and domains behind DDoS attacks that hit Russian infrastructure after the invasion. SecurityAffairs – hacking, DDoS). The post These are the sources of DDoS attacks against Russia, local NCCC warns appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This important feature uses header information from established communication connections to improve overall security. Stateful inspection reads and stores header information from established communication protocols. The stored information informs the state or condition of communication at any given time.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2019

This week Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a major distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that made it unavailable for some customers. This week, threat actors launched a massive DDoS attack against Amazon Web Services (AWS) causing the inability of some customers to access their AWS S3 buckets. SecurityAffairs – Amazon, DDoS).

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2019

The peculiarity of this new piece of malware is the ability to communicate with C2 servers via DNS over HTTPS ( DoH ). The DoH protocol was a new standard proposed in October 2018 and it is currently supported by several publicly available DNS servers. com domain. ” states the analysis. ” states the analysis.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In our last #AskSecPro article we discussed the differences between a DoS and a DDoS attack. Now that we understand what a DDoS attack is in concept, let’s learn a little more about the mechanisms involved in these attacks. Application Layer DDoS Attacks. This DDoS vector accounts for about 20 percent of all DDoS attacks.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

Throughout 2023, Tornote was hosted with the Russian provider DDoS-Guard , at the Internet address 186.2.163[.]216. A review of the passive DNS records tied to this address shows that apart from subdomains dedicated to tornote[.]io, io, the main other domain at this address was hkleaks[.]ml. com , meternask[.]com com , and rnetamask[.]com.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2021

Multiple major websites, including Steam, AWS, Amazon, Google, and Salesforce, went offline due to Akamai DNS global outage. A software configuration update triggered a bug in the Akamai DNS which took offline major websites, including Steam, the PlayStation Network, AWS, Google, and Salesforce. SecurityAffairs – hacking, DNS).

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Domain name service (DNS) attacks threaten every internet connection because they can deny, intercept, and hijack connections. With the internet playing an increasing role in business, securing DNS plays a critical role in both operations and security. Everything You Need to Know.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks cause problems for organizations of all sizes. To fight DDoS attacks, organizations and teams need to implement the three standard phases for any IT threat: preparation, reaction, and recovery. To skip ahead, click on the links: What is a DDoS Attack? Types of DDoS Attacks.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

is overseen by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), an executive branch agency of the U.S. domains were the worst in the world for spam, botnet (attack infrastructure for DDOS etc.) US phishing domains.US Department of Commerce. However, NTIA currently contracts out the management of the.US

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The attack_init function is also discarded, and the ddos attack function is called directly by the command processing function. During this process, a number of DNS requests are generated.” The analysis of the ELF sample revealed that it supports DDoS and backdoor commands. ” reads the post published by NetLab 360.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 14, 2022

Phishing attacks, vulnerability exploits, DDoS attacks, and much more threaten your company’s Macs at any time — and if any of them are successful, it could cost your business millions in lost productivity and information theft. It provides patch names, patch information, affected devices, and release dates.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2023

is overseen by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), an executive branch agency of the U.S. domains were the worst in the world for spam, botnet (attack infrastructure for DDOS etc.) .” Since then, they found that whoever is responsible for running the service has used.US Department of Commerce.

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Webroot

MARCH 9, 2021

DNS (Domain Name System) is especially vulnerable. One of the most common methods of infiltration includes internet-based attacks, such as Denial of Service (DoS), Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) and DNS poisoning. However, cybercriminals can also use legal DNS traffic surveillance to their advantage.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2023

A Pro-Russian group named NoName057(16) is targeting organizations in Ukraine and NATO countries with DDoS attacks. A Pro-Russian cybercrime group named NoName057 (16) (aka 05716nnm or Nnm05716) is behind a wave of DDoS attacks against organizations in Ukraine and NATO countries, SentinelOne researchers reported.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The botnet was created to launch DDoS attacks and to insert advertisements in the legitimate HTTP traffic of the victims, most of which are in China (96%). According to the experts, Pink is the largest botnet they have observed in the last six years.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2021

The attacks aimed at compromising the tarted systems to create an IRC botnet, which can later be used to conduct several malicious activities, including DDoS attacks and crypto-mining campaign. Supports UDP and TCP packets, but also application layer protocols such as HTTP, DNS, SSDP, and SNMP Protocol packing support created by the attacker.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A new communication NKAbuse utilizes the NKN protocol to communicate with the bot master and receive/send information. NKAbuse contains a large arsenal of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. NKAbuse overflows a DNS server with junk DNS requests (type AAAA ), causing it to try to resolve “ {JUNK}.google.com

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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. Figure 6: Simps ELF execution. Conclusion.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

gov adds more Chinese Telecom firms to the Covered List Imperva blocked a record DDoS attack with 25.3 gov adds more Chinese Telecom firms to the Covered List Imperva blocked a record DDoS attack with 25.3 gov adds more Chinese Telecom firms to the Covered List Imperva blocked a record DDoS attack with 25.3 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2021

The Windows botnet has been active since late 2017, it was mainly used to mine cryptocurrency, but it was also involved in DDoS attacks in 2018. Communication with C&C servers is based on DNS requests and it uses a special mechanism translating DNS results to a real IP address. ” concludes the analysis.”

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

College campuses store a wealth of confidential student and faculty data, including medical records, financial information and intellectual property for products and prescription drugs. Some of the most common attacks cybercriminals use to breach higher education institutions are hacking, malware and DDoS attacks.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

In 2007, Salomon collected more than $3,000 from botmasters affiliated with competing spam affiliate programs that wanted to see Spamhaus suffer, and the money was used to fund a week-long distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Spamhaus and its online infrastructure. I can not provide DNS for u, only domains.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

.” The analysis of the bot revealed that it supports seven functions: reverse shell, self-uninstall, gather process’ network information, gather Bot information, execute system commands, run encrypted files specified in URLs, DDoS attack, etc.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 16, 2021

(LDAP, or lightweight directory access protocol, is a protocol that makes it possible for applications to query user information rapidly.) The key issue is that many services may log user provided information without proper input validation. DDoS family Elknot. rmi|dns):/[^n]+' /var/log. in early December 2021.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2021

According to the researchers, in the last months of 2019, the botnet was mainly involved in DDoS attacks. “By infecting routers, they can perform man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks—via HTTP hijacking and DNS spoofing—to compromise endpoints and deploy ransomware or cause safety incidents in OT facilities.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Abby’s customers enter their credit card numbers, email addresses and home addresses when they make purchases online— exactly the type of information cybercriminals are after. They can even save their personal financial information to their account, which is stored in Julia’s database. What can Abby do to protect her website?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Unlike other IoT DDoS botnets, Ttint implements 12 remote access functions such as Socket5 proxy for router devices, tampering with router firewall and DNS settings, executing remote custom system commands.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks seek to cripple a corporate resource such as applications, web sites, servers, and routers, which can quickly lead to steep losses for victims. However, DDoS attackers sometimes even target the specific computers (or routers) of unwary people – often to harass video gamers, for example.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2021

million customers Adobe addresses two critical vulnerabilities in Photoshop Hamburg’s data protection agency (DPA) states that using Zoom violates GDPR Kalay cloud platform flaw exposes millions of IoT devices to hack Fortinet FortiWeb OS Command Injection allows takeover servers remotely 1.9

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 14, 2023

Malicious bots can be used to carry out a range of cyber threats like account takeovers and DDoS attacks, so bot protection is an increasingly important defense for web-facing assets. Bot protection products can also help prevent DDoS attacks. Limited customization options for smaller businesses.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2022

F5 warns its customers of tens of flaws in its products China-linked Winnti APT steals intellectual property from companies worldwide Pro-Ukraine attackers compromise Docker images to launch DDoS attacks on Russian sites Experts linked multiple ransomware strains North Korea-backed APT38 group An expert shows how to stop popular ransomware samples (..)

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Experts revealed details on the tools and techniques used by the botnet to compromise Linux devices and recruit them in launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Malware researchers from Trend Micro recently observed notable malware activity affecting devices running Linux that is associated with the Momentum Botnet.

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