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Ukraine Nabs Suspect in 773M Password ?Megabreach?

Krebs on Security

In January 2019, dozens of media outlets raised the alarm about a new “megabreach” involving the release of some 773 million stolen usernames and passwords that was breathlessly labeled “the largest collection of stolen data in history.” By far the most important passwords are those protecting our email inbox(es).

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Anonymous Sudan launched a DDoS attack against Telegram

Security Affairs

Anonymous Sudan launched a DDoS attack against Telegram after the company suspended the account of the group. The hacker collective Anonymous Sudan (aka Storm-1359) has launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Telegram in retaliation for the suspension of their primary account.

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Know more about YO-YO DDoS Attacks

CyberSecurity Insiders

All these days we have been discussing Distributed Denial of Service attacks aka Ddos attacks and the massive amounts of fake traffic they create to network disruptions in corporate and government networks. But Yo-Yo DDoS Attack is different and seems to be an innovative way to attack public cloud infrastructures.

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Linux Servers Hacked to Launch DDoS Attacks and Mine Monero Cryptocurrency

Heimadal Security

Threat actors brute-forced Linux SSH servers to deploy Tsunami DDoS bot, ShellBot, log cleaners, privilege escalation tools, and an XMRig (Monero) coin miner. Hackers port scanned for publicly exposed Linux SSH servers and brute-forced username-password pairs to log in to the server.

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Cloudflare: Mirai Botnet Launched Record-Breaking DDoS Attack

eSecurity Planet

Cloudflare last month fought off a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by a botnet that was bombarding 17.2 The attack was almost three times larger than any previous attack that Cloudflare is aware of, according to Omar Yoachimik, product manager for DDoS protection at Cloudflare. DDoS Attacks on the Rise.

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WordPress sites hacked with fake Cloudflare DDoS alerts pushing malware

Bleeping Computer

WordPress sites are being hacked to display fake Cloudflare DDoS protection pages to distribute malware that installs the NetSupport RAT and the RaccoonStealer password-stealing Trojan. [.].

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New evolving Abcbot DDoS botnet targets Linux systems

Security Affairs

Qihoo 360’s Netlab detailed a new evolving DDoS botnet called Abcbot with wormable capabilities that targets Linux systems. Researchers from Qihoo 360’s Netlab security team have spotted a new botnet, tracked as Abcbot, that targets Linux systems to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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