SecureList

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In Q3 2022, DDoS attacks were, more often than not, it seemed, politically motivated. As before, most news was focused on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, but other high-profile events also affected the DDoS landscape this quarter. The attackers stated on Telegram that they were “testing a new DDoS method.”

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Security Affairs

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. Court documents revealed that the man suffers from Asperger Syndrome and autism disorder. Court documents revealed that the man suffers from Asperger Syndrome and autism disorder.

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Security Affairs

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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The breach may have exposed personal identification documents uploaded by users for Wayback Machine page removal requests, depending on the attacker’s Zendesk API access. The Internet Archive founder, Brewster Kahle, also confirmed that the platform was hit by a DDoS attack that took the website offline several times.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

to , and vDOS , a DDoS-for-hire service that was shut down in 2016 after its founders were arrested. According to the cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 , a user named Finndev registered on multiple cybercrime forums, including Raidforums [ seized by the FBI in 2022 ], Void[.]to The email address used for those accounts was f.grimpe@gmail.com.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2025

The modular architecture of the malware allows to extend its functionalities for multiple malicious purposes, including surveillance, reconnaissance, information theft, DDoS attacks, and arbitrary code execution.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2023

Most people who operate DDoS-for-hire businesses attempt to hide their true identities and location. Prosecutors say his service attracted more than two million registered users, and was responsible for launching a staggering 30 million distinct DDoS attacks. men for allegedly operating stresser services. com,” Dobbs continued.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

A 20-year-old Illinois man has pleaded guilty to running multiple DDoS-for-hire services that launched millions of attacks over several years. But Usatyuk’s involvement in the DDoS-for-hire space very much predates that period. Booter Master ” — was heavily involved in helping to launch crippling DDoS attacks.

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Heimadal Security

AUGUST 30, 2021

BazaLoader malware developers came up with a new idea in an attempt to deceive their victims into opening malicious documents. The threat actors responsible for the BazaLoader malware are currently sending fake messages to website owners alerting them that their site has been engaged in a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Bitcoin Core Software fixed a critical DDoS attack vulnerability in the Bitcoin Core wallet software tracked as CVE-2018-17144. The flaw potentially affects all recent versions of the BTC system, but anyway, experts pointed out that a coordinated Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against Bitcoin blockchain is very expensive.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 2, 2022

A threat actor using DanaBot has launched a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense’s webmail server. The DDoS attack was launched by leveraging DanaBot to deliver a second-stage malware payload using the download and execute command. Key Points. Conclusion. Cloud Sandbox Detection.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

At the end of January, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center warned that the KillNet group is actively targeting the US healthcare sector with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says it helped dozens of hospitals respond to these DDoS incidents.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Selectel, Netwarm UK, Beget, Timeweb and DDoS-Guard). An analysis of their technology infrastructure shows that all of these exchanges use Russian email providers, and most are directly hosted in Russia or by Russia-backed ISPs with infrastructure in Europe (e.g. ” Cryptomus did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 30, 2020

According to Bloomberg Law, the test was the subject of a DDoS attack. The hackers claim they'll release personal student information and the college's private financial records, among other documents. During May, SecureWorld covered a ransomware attack that hit Michigan State University: "If the university fails to pay the ransom?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In the last few days massive DDoS attacks have taken offline numerous websites of Russian government entities, including the Duma and Ministry of Defense. The group claims to have compromised the Russian Nuclear Institute and released over 40.000 documents. Doemela_X) February 27, 2022.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 9, 2025

The attack vectors are diverse: fraudulent websites mimicking airline booking portals, phishing campaigns targeting airline staff, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks crippling airport websites malware infiltrating maintenance system, ransomware encrypting critical backend databases, and more. Airports have also been targeted.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

But according to information obtained by KrebsOnSecurity, it is equally likely Vrublevsky was arrested thanks to his propensity for carefully documenting the links between Russia’s state security services and the cybercriminal underground. The latest document in the hacked archive is dated April 2021.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Researchers from SonicWall revealed that hackers are attempting to compromise Linear eMerge E3 smart building access systems to recruit them in a DDoS botnet. Passwords can be found in p roduct documentation and compiled lists available on the Internet.” CVE-2019-7256 is actively being exploited by DDoS botnet operators.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

But as documented by KrebsOnSecurity in November 2022 , security experts soon discovered Ransom Man had mistakenly included an entire copy of their home folder, where investigators found many clues pointing to Kivimäki’s involvement. The DDoS-for-hire service allegedly operated by Kivimäki in 2012.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Meanwhile, a Russia-linked cyber attack has already stolen and leaked documents from other Olympic organizations. It also released documents specifying exceptions to anti-doping regulations granted to specific athletes (for instance, one athlete was given an exception because of his asthma medication ).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Chaos malware includes capabilities previously documented in the original Kaiji Linux botnet. “Chaos functionality includes the ability to enumerate the host environment, run remote shell commands, load additional modules, automatically propagate through stealing and brute forcing SSH private keys, as well as launch DDoS attacks.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The Moobot was first documented by Palo Alto Unit 42 researchers in February 2021, the recent attacks demonstrated that its authors are enhancing their malware. It tries to drop a downloader that exhibits infection behavior and that also executes Moobot, which is a DDoS botnet based on Mirai.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In 2013, Vrublevsky was convicted of hiring his most-trusted spammer and malware writer to launch a crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against one of his company’s chief competitors. A copy of that email is shown in Russian in the screen shot below. A translated version of the message text is available here (PDF).

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2021

The Avaddon ransomware gang is giving Acer Finance 240 hours to communicate and cooperate with them before start leaking the stolen valuable company documents. As proof of the hack, the group published several ID cards, personal documents, contracts, and a screenshot of the folders containing stolen data.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

“We’ve seen [videos] of people in nursing homes, where folks off camera are speaking for them and holding up documents.” came under a series of denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks aimed at knocking the service offline. . “A lot of this is targeting the elderly,” Hall said.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2019

Court documents refer to the hacktivist as a Brecht S., The member of Anonymous was also involved in DDoS attacks against online banking system of the Crelan Bank that shut down the portal on numerous occasions. Brecht also blackmailed some organizations threatening them of DDoS attacks, in one case the victim was a restaurant.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2023

According to the alert, the ransomware gang is launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks as part of its extortion activities. The ransomware gang targets their victims’ websites with DDoS attacks if they refuse to pay the ransom.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

There’s a lot of buzz going around in many online communities concerning the recent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks the world has witnessed. In Part One we’re going to look at the differences between a denial of service (DoS) and a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Photo credit US Army Spc.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 22, 2021

In the lead-up to the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act, the NIST released two core foundational documents regarding IoT device management for agencies. In May 2020, NIST released two foundational documents that serve as a foundation for the newly created guidelines. Documentation. Guidance for Manufacturers. patch management ).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2021

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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

On February 16th, an account linked to that email uploaded a batch of files including marketing documents, images, screenshots, and a substantial collection of WeChat messages exchanged between I-SOON employees and clients. The alleged data breach revealed the capabilities of the China-linked hacking contractor.

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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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The Hacker News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The Zerobot DDoS botnet has received substantial updates that expand on its ability to target more internet-connected devices and scale its network. Zerobot, first documented by Fortinet FortiGuard Labs earlier this month,

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2021

The new technique aims at making the double-extortion tactic more efficient, crooks sent emails directly to victims’ customers found in documents stolen during the ransomware attack. According to BleepingComputer, the first victim threatened with this new tactic was Flagstar Bank followed by the University of Colorado.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Dark web services: DDoS attacks, botnets, and zero-day IoT vulnerabilities Of all IoT-related services offered on the dark web, DDoS attacks are worth examining first. See translation I’m the world’s best-known DDoS attacker for hire (getting ahead of myself here). Our advantages: 1. Tested, tried.

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Responsible Cyber

JULY 13, 2024

Introduction In today’s digital landscape, DDoS attacks (Distributed Denial of Service) pose a significant threat to business websites. Responsible Cyber , a leading provider of cybersecurity and risk management solutions, offers comprehensive platforms designed to protect organizations from external threats like DDoS attacks.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Kenneth Currin Schuchman (21) from Vancouver, Washington pleaded guilty to creating and operating multiple DDoS IoT botnet , including Satori. Kenneth Currin Schuchman (21) from Vancouver, Washington, aka Nexus Zeta, pleaded guilty to creating and operating multiple DDoS IoT botnets.

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