Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Several media reported that three million electric toothbrushes were compromised and recruited into a DDoS botnet. The Swiss newspaper Aargauer Zeitung first published the news of a DDoS attack, carried out on January 30, that involved three million compromised electric toothbrushes. Is it true? What the f is wrong with you people????

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2022

Cyble researchers discovered a new remote access trojan (RAT) named Borat capable of conducting DDoS and ransomware attacks. Unlike other RATs, the Borat RAT provides Ransomware and DDOS services to attackers expanding their capabilities. DDOS – This module is used to perform a DDOS attack. ” concludes Cyble.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 11, 2021

Security researchers are tracking new DDoS extortion activity by threat actor group Fancy Lazarus. Learn 12 tips for effectively presenting cybersecurity to the board and 6 steps for building a robust incident response plan. Sign up for CSO newsletters. ].

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SecureWorld News

JULY 17, 2024

The event not only showcases athletic prowess but also presents a significant challenge for cybersecurity professionals. These could range from DDoS attacks to more subtle tactics like phishing and ransomware. Evaluate threat scenarios: Consider various threat scenarios, including DDoS attacks, phishing campaigns, and insider threats.

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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. The only work experience Dobbs listed on his resume was as a freelance developer from 2013 to the present day. For at least a decade until late last year, Dobbs openly operated IPStresser[.]com Image: john-dobbs.github.io.

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The Hacker News

MARCH 2, 2022

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks leveraging a new amplification technique called TCP Middlebox Reflection have been detected for the first time in the wild, six months after the novel attack mechanism was presented in theory.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

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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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Most of these are long-standing stratagems, but as they evolve in lockstep with technological advancements, it's worth scrutinizing them through the lens of the present-day IT landscape. During a DDoS attack, the network becomes swamped with malicious bot traffic, making it either significantly slower for normal use, or completely unusable.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

When they roused him and asked for identification, the 6′ 3″ blonde, green-eyed man presented an ID that stated he was of Romanian nationality. Kivimäki initially gained notoriety as a self-professed member of the Lizard Squad , a mainly low-skilled hacker group that specialized in DDoS attacks.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Group-IB’s annual report was presented at CyberCrimeCon 2019 international Threat Hunting and Intelligence conference in Singapore. Such threats, including traffic manipulation and DDoS attacks, will become much more frequent and effective due to the large number of insecure devices connected and wide bandwidth.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

DDoS and Web Application Attacks Retailers also face threats to their infrastructure - websites and apps - that could disrupt their business operations, leading to loss of sales and customer trust. The 2024 Imperva DDoS Threat Landscape Report shows that the first half of this year saw 111% more DDoS attacks than the same period in 2023.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

If we hadn't been careful about how we managed the origin infrastructure, we would have built a literal DDoS machine. We presently run on a Basic instance, which means we're talking about a 19x increase in price just to unlock that ability.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 15, 2023

In an increasingly interconnected world, the evolution of the automotive industry presents an exciting yet daunting prospect. What used to be a focus on physical safety has now shifted to cybersecurity due to the widened attack surface that connected cars present.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 29, 2022

Financial problems have also presented challenges for network operators. It’s not yet known whether Ukrtelecom—a telephone, internet and mobile provider—was hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack or a deeper, more sophisticated intrusion. Communications.

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IT Security Guru

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attacks: These disrupt services, causing significant downtime for governments and industries. Economic Espionage and Intellectual Property Theft As economies become increasingly knowledge-driven, economic espionage and intellectual property (IP) theft present growing threats to national security.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 18, 2024

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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SecureWorld News

JUNE 13, 2023

Over the past year, IoT botnet Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have skyrocketed, with the number of insecure IoT devices involved in botnet-driven attacks rising from approximately 200,000 to a staggering 1 million devices. However, this threat has since expanded globally, affecting various parts of the world.

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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. see Figure 8). Conclusion.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Mirai ultimately was used to carry out massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. IoT botnets today continue to carry out DDoS attacks and also routinely get deployed to distribute Banking Trojan malware as well as to carry out Man In The Middle (MITM) attacks. This is not just all up to the company.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 5, 2021

Present and former employee service and confidentiality contracts were also stolen in the digital attack, making the issue seriously. A Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDoS) is a kind of cyber attack where hacker/s targets the web servers with fake traffic, thus disrupting the entire network because of traffic overload.

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Heimadal Security

DECEMBER 7, 2022

VTB Bank, Russia’s second-largest financial institution, stated that it is experiencing the biggest cyberattack in its history after a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack caused its website and mobile apps to go down.

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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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Notice Bored

AUGUST 27, 2020

Under assault from a sustained DDoS attack, its web servers have crumpled and fallen in an untidy heap again today, the fourth day of embarrassing and costly disruption. DDoS attacks are generally not sophisticated hacks but crude overloads caused by sending vast volumes of data to overwhelm the servers.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

” 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.

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SecureList

JUNE 8, 2022

The nvd.nist.gov website presents different figures, but they too show a significant increase in the number of router vulnerabilities found in 2020 and 2021. The Mirai botnet was originally designed for large-scale DDoS attacks on Minecraft servers, and was later employed to attack other resources. Researchers named the botnet Meris.

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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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Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2022

There is also ample evidence to suggest that Glupteba may have spawned Meris , a massive botnet of hacked Internet of Things (IoT) devices that surfaced in September 2021 and was responsible for some of the largest and most disruptive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks the Internet has ever seen. But on Dec.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2021

ZHtrap propagates using four vulnerabilities, experts pointed out that the botnet mainly used to conduct DDoS attacks and scanning activities, while integrating some backdoor features. Experts noticed that that the bot borrows some implementations of the Matryosh DDoS botnet.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2021

” “In order not to wait for the upcoming Apple presentations, today we, the REvil group, will provide data on the upcoming releases of the company so beloved by many.” ” reads a statement published by the REvil gang. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2019

Experts observed attacks against WePresent WiPG-1000 Wireless Presentation systems and LG Supersign TVs, both families of devices intended for use within business environments. “In particular, Unit 42 found this new variant targeting WePresent WiPG-1000 Wireless Presentation systems, and in LG Supersign TVs.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

. “This class of cybercrime activity threat may evade detection because it is less likely than a crypto-miner to be noticed by the owner, and it is unlikely to warrant the volume of abuse complaints that internet-wide brute-forcing and DDoS-based botnets typically draw,” Lumen’s Black Lotus researchers wrote.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

CISA adds SonicWall SonicOS and Palo Alto PAN-OS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Juniper Networks fixed a critical flaw in Session Smart Routers China-linked APT group Winnti targets Japanese organizations since March 2024 Xerox VersaLink C7025 Multifunction printer flaws may expose Windows Active Directory credentials to attackers (..)

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 6, 2021

Report released by the firm says that the discovered flaw is actually an amalgamation of 5 different flaws that are present on the Dell BIOS Utility Driver called DBUtil and has been in place since 2009.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 20, 2022

The primary goal of all this malware is to compromise the devices and systems, pull them into a botnet and use them for distributed denial-of-services (DDoS) attacks, Maganu wrote. That echoes similar reports that have shown an increase in DDoS attacks worldwide. Also read: Top 8 DDoS Protection Service Providers for 2022.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2019

The Philippines has a bad track record of threats against press freedom with 85 documented cases of intimidation and 12 journalists killed during President Rodrigo Duterte regime (June 2016 – present). P4p3r had resources to rent Virtual Private Servers, Virtual Private Networks, private botnets and DDoS services to attack sites.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Uptycs researchers have observed attacks related to miners, DDOS malware and some variants of ransomware actively leveraging LogforShell flaw in log4j. So far we have observed attacks related to coinminers, DDOS malware and some variants of ransomware actively leveraging this vulnerability. DDoS botnet payloads.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 24, 2024

However, they also present substantial cybersecurity risks. However, they also present substantial cybersecurity risks. This was made apparent during the UEFA EURO 2024 competition when a DDoS attack disrupted Poland’s opening game live streaming. The Tokyo 2020 Olympics had an international audience of around 3.05

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