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DDoS attacks in Q4 2020

SecureList

The DTLS (Datagram Transport Layer Security) protocol is used to establish secure connections over UDP, through which most DNS queries, as well as audio and video traffic, are sent. In December, Canada’s Laurentian University reported a DDoS attack. In early October, a DDoS attack was reported by the PUBG Mobile team.

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USENIX Security ’23 – NRDelegationAttack: Complexity DDoS attack on DNS Recursive Resolvers

Security Boulevard

Authors/Presenters: *Yehuda Afek and Anat Bremler-Barr, Shani Stajnrod* Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment to Open Access.

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

2000 — Mafiaboy — 15-year-old Michael Calce, aka MafiaBoy, a Canadian high school student, unleashes a DDoS attack on several high-profile commercial websites including Amazon, CNN, eBay and Yahoo! The DDoS attack is part of a political activist movement against the church called “Project Chanology.” billion dollars in damages.

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Group-IB presents its annual report on global threats to stability in cyberspace

Security Affairs

Group-IB’s annual report was presented at CyberCrimeCon 2019 international Threat Hunting and Intelligence conference in Singapore. The past months have shown that the most dangerous hacks involved DNS hijacking, which helped attackers manipulate DNS records for MITM attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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ISRAELI FIRM ‘BRIGHT DATA’ (LUMINATI NETWORKS) ENABLED THE ATTACKS AGAINST KARAPATAN

Security Affairs

Who is behind the massive and prolonged Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that hit the Philippine human rights alliance Karapatan? The traces lead us to an Israeli firm offering access to millions of proxies in mobile operators, data centers and residential buildings – a perfect infrastructure to hide the source of DDoS attacks.

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Discovery of Simps Botnet Leads To Ties to Keksec Group

Security Affairs

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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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

” We are glad to present you our services! 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.