Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2024

.” The experts noticed that a cluster of activities linked to a threat actor tracked as “ExploderBot” included most demonstrably damaging DNS DDoS attacks, ceased in May 2018. However, low-volume attacks resembling Slow Drip DDoS attacks have persisted since then. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

Timetv.live is the latest Azeri news site targeted by Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks launched by Sandman threat actor, the attack took place on March 21, 2020. Just like many other DDoS attacks we have seen in the past against Azeri media, the attacker monitors the success of the floods using the HostTracker service.

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DDOS Media VPN Advertising 105

Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2021

REvil ransomware gang is attempting to extort Apple ahead of the Apple Spring Loaded event threatening to sell stolen blueprints belonging to the IT giant that were stolen from Quanta Computer. As proof of the hack, REvil operators leaked some schematics of MacBook components on the leak site. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Quanta).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2022

This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. Anonymous claims to have hacked the Russian Orthodox Church ‘s charitable wing and leaked 15 GB of alleged stolen data. Apr 01 – Anonymous targets oligarchs’ Russian businesses: Marathon Group hacked.

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DDOS Hacking Mobile Internet 98

Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2022

This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. Below is the timeline of the events related to the ongoing invasion that occurred in the previous weeks: April 30 – Pro-Russian group Killnet launched DDoS attacks on Romanian govt sites.

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DDOS Government Hacking Banking 78

Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2022

The Pro-Russian volunteer movement known as LEGION is calling to launch DDoS attacks against the final of the Eurovision song contest. The LEGION is a Pro-Russian volunteer movement that focuses on DDOS attacks. The attack aims at bringing down the official site of the event [link] until tomorrow morning and blocking the voting.

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DDOS Hacking Government Cybersecurity 118

Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2022

This post provides a timeline of the events related to Russia invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. Below is the timeline of the events related to the ongoing Russia invasion that occurred in the previous weeks: May 06 – Anonymous and Ukraine IT Army continue to target Russian entities.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2024

The Killnet group launched multiple DDoS attacks against governments that expressed support for Ukraine, including Moldova, Italy, Romania , the Czech Republic, Lithuania , Norway, and Latvia. In October 2022, another wave of attacks targeted tens of Moldovan institutions with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

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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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DDOS DNS Advertising Engineering 51

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. In March 2020, the collective of hacktivists called “ Digital Revolution ” claimed to have hacked a subcontractor to the Russian FSB. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Fronton botnet).

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DDOS Media Hacking Engineering 115

Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2022

Thousands of satellite internet users across Europe were disconnected from the internet by a cyber-event, experts suspect a cyber attack. Around one-third of 40,000 subscribers of the bigblu satellite internet service in Europe, in Germany, France, Hungary, Greece, Italy and Poland, were impacted by the same cyber event.

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Internet Internet Cyber Attacks DDOS 102

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Microsoft announced that a botnet dubbed MCCrash is launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against private Minecraft servers. Microsoft spotted a cross-platform botnet, tracked as MCCrash, which has been designed to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against private Minecraft servers. ark—event[.]net

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DDOS IoT Malware Internet 90

Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2022

This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russia invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. March 11 – Anonymous hacked Roskomnadzor agency revealing Russian disinformation. March 10 – Crooks target Ukraine’s IT Army with a tainted DDoS tool. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Ukraine).

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Hacking DDOS Phishing Malware 87

Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2023

The vulnerability was first reported to ZDI during the Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 event. Working exploits for LAN and WAN interface accesses were respectively reported by Team Viettel and Qrious Security. This can be used to launch a Valve Source Engine (VSE) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against game servers.”

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DDOS Engineering Firmware Architecture 91

Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

ransom Dragon Breath APT uses double-dip DLL sideloading strategy International Press Cybercrime San Bernardino County pays $1.1-million ransom Dragon Breath APT uses double-dip DLL sideloading strategy International Press Cybercrime San Bernardino County pays $1.1-million

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Data breaches DDOS Artificial Intelligence Ransomware 89

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russia invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. February 19 – White House and UK Gov attribute DDoS attacks on Ukraine to Russia’s GRU. The White House has linked the recent DDoS attacks against Ukraine ‘s banks and defense agencies to Russia’s GRU.

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DDOS Banking Phishing Ransomware 89

Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2022

This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russia invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. March 5 – Anonymous #OpRussia Thousands of sites hacked, data leaks and more. March 4 – These are the sources of DDoS attacks against Russia, local NCCC warns. Pierluigi Paganini.

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DDOS Ransomware Government Phishing 89

Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2022

This post provides a timeline of the events related to Russia invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. Below is the timeline of the events related to the ongoing Russia invasion that occurred in the previous weeks: May 14 – The LEGION collective calls to action to attack the final of the Eurovision song contest.

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DDOS Hacking Government Malware 93

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Confirmed: A significant internet outage has been registered in Tehran, #Iran with real time network data showing connectivity at 67% of ordinary levels; the incident comes amid protests over the death of Mahsa Amini and may affect coverage of events on the ground pic.twitter.com/a8fjaaLoYG — NetBlocks (@netblocks) September 16, 2022.

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Internet Internet Hacking Government 134

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This is the 11th edition of the annual report and analyzes events that took place between July 2022 and July 2023. During the reporting period, key findings include: DDoS and ransomware rank the highest among the prime threats, with social engineering, data related threats, information manipulation, supply chain, and malware following.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2020

The IT giant pointed out that major events like elections and COVID-19 represent opportunities for threat actors. This week, 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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Google TAG). election.

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DDOS Phishing Advertising Accountability 89

Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2022

RapperBot has limited DDoS capabilities, it was designed to target ARM, MIPS, SPARC, and x86 architectures. “In conjunction, it adds the root user account every hour by writing the following script to “/etc/cron.hourly/0” in the event that other users (or botnets) attempt to remove their account from the victim system.”

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IoT Malware Passwords Authentication 137

Daniel Miessler

MAY 19, 2020

A security event that compromises the integrity, confidentiality or availability of an information asset. 45% of breaches involved Hacking. Errors were causal events in 22% of breaches. Hacking, social, and malware have fallen the most. Hacking types and vectors. Top tactics utilized. My analysis.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2022

This sudden surge in attacks is due to the geopolitical events of the current Russian – Ukraine conflict.” Below is the timeline of recent cyber incidents on critical infrastructure: On February 25, 2022, a group that uses the Twitter handle @ LiteMods reported a DDOS attack on Russian energy giant Gazprom. We are legion.

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Risk Hacking Cyber Attacks Financial Services 94

Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2022

Please vote for Security Affairs as the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS Vote for me in the sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog” and others of your choice. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IoT DNS Antivirus DDOS 83

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The list of exposed APIs: Event API: enables communication and information sharing between software programs or services. Amongst the several APIs exposed, the most sensitive is the Oauth token endpoint, which might grant access to all the production APIs of BMW Kun Exclusive.

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Risk Identity Theft Data breaches Accountability 101

Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2021

HTTP flooding is a kind of DDoS attack in which the attacker sends a large number of HTTP requests to the targeted server to overwhelm it. UDP flooding is a type of DDoS attack in which an attacker sends several UDP packets to the victim server as a means of exhausting it. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Mirai). HTTP flooding module.

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Malware DDOS IoT Firmware 122

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

This dollar amount is scary enough, but we also need to add on the consequences of other incidents such as business email compromise (BEC) , distributed denial of service (DDoS) , or even something as mundane as severed internet access. We need to regularly update our documentation on a quarterly, annual, or event-driven schedule.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 29, 2022

IoT devices could be used like botnets so as to execute DDoS attacks. . . Ambiguity about cyber security threats, legal responsibilities, and unexpected events is exacerbated for IT security professionals who don’t understand where resources are positioned, how well they are handled, or whether they are susceptible. . .

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Cyber Risk Software Risk IoT 122

Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

Tbps DDoS attack, the largest ever, which surpassed the previous record of 1.7 Amazon announced it has mitigated the largest ever DDoS attack of 2.3 This is approximately 44% larger than any network volumetric event previously detected on AWS.” The 99th percentile event in Q1 2020 was 43 Gbps.”

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DDOS Advertising Internet Internet 118

eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Incident Response is a systematic method for addressing and managing security incidents in organizations, focused on minimizing and investigating the impact of events and restoring normal operations. Social engineering attacks: These involve manipulating individuals to gain unauthorized access to sensitive information or systems.

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Software Data breaches DDOS Ransomware 86

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Cyber Security Spending: Global cyber security spending is projected to reach $172 billion in 2024, reflecting the increasing prioritization of cyber security by businesses and governments worldwide. Recent Security Events Recent cyber security events have highlighted the persistent and evolving nature of online threats.

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Social Engineering Cyber Insurance Cyber Attacks IoT 125

Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Verizon’s 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) [1], an industry publication that analyzes cybersecurity incident and data breach event data from around the world, found that over 99% of all events fall into one of eight major categories: Patterns over time in cybersecurity incidents. Do those perceptions reflect reality?

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Cybersecurity Social Engineering Data breaches Engineering 106

ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

It’s about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. He’s been around the hacking scene since the late 1990s, he knows a few people, and he has contributed a lot to the industry. He started hacking in the 1990s. I hope you’ll stick around. CLEMENS: My name is Daniel Clemens.

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Hacking Media InfoSec Internet 40

Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Verizon’s 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) [1], an industry publication that analyzes cybersecurity incident and data breach event data from around the world, found that over 99% of all events fall into one of eight major categories: Patterns over time in cybersecurity incidents. Do those perceptions reflect reality?

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Cybersecurity Social Engineering Data breaches Engineering 52

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 25, 2022

Dancho Danchev’s “A Qualitative and Technical Collection OSINT-Enriched Analysis of the Iranian Hacking Scene Through the Prism of the Infamous Ashiyane Digital Security Team” Report – [PDF]. Dancho Danchev’s “Astalavista Security Group – Investment Proposal” Presentation – A Photos Compilation.

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Cybercrime Hacking Scams Ransomware 96

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

This is the 10 th edition of the annual report and analyzes events that took place between July 2021 and July 2022. Threats against availability: Largest Denial of Service (DDoS) attack ever was launched in Europe in July 2022; Internet: destruction of infrastructure, outages and rerouting of internet traffic. Pierluigi Paganini.

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