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MY TAKE: Why DDoS weapons will proliferate with the expansion of IoT and the coming of 5G

The Last Watchdog

Related: IoT botnets now available for economical DDoS blasts. The author of Mirai used a sledgehammer to kill a fly: the DDoS bombardment was so large that it also wiped out Dyn , a UK-based internet performance vendor. Today, the potential for so-called DNS reflective attacks has become pervasive. A10 Networks’ report found 6.3

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Overview of IoT threats in 2023

SecureList

IoT devices (routers, cameras, NAS boxes, and smart home components) multiply every year. The first-ever large-scale malware attacks on IoT devices were recorded back in 2008, and their number has only been growing ever since. Telnet, the overwhelmingly popular unencrypted IoT text protocol, is the main target of brute-forcing.

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Here’s how anyone with $20 can hire an IoT botnet to blast out a week-long DDoS attack

The Last Watchdog

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks continue to erupt all across the Internet showing not the faintest hint of leveling off, much less declining, any time soon. Related video: How DDoS attacks leverage the Internet’s DNA. This is borne out by Akamai Technologies’ Summer 2018 Internet Security/Web Attack Report.

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FBI, CISA alert warns of imminent ransomware attacks on healthcare sector

Security Affairs

In early 2019, researchers spotted a new TrickBot backdoor framework dubbed Anchor that was using the anchor_dns tool for abusing the DNS protocol for C2 communications. ransomware, that was first spotted in late 2017 and was available for sale on the open market as of August 2018.

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Startup that maps adversaries’ IT infrastructure lands $16 million in funding

SC Magazine

HYAS offers threat intelligence services , but the company’s calling card revolves around two tools, called Insight and Protect, that pull around 3 billion data points about adversary infrastructure every day from various sources on the internet and third-party data brokers.

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7 Best Attack Surface Management Software for 2024

eSecurity Planet

per year Tenable Tenable One, an exposure management platform Identifies assets using DNS records, IP addresses, and ASN, and provides over 180 metadata fields Tenable Attack Surface Management, Add-on for Splunk ISO/IEC 27001/27002 $5,290 – $15,076.50 Pricing is dependent on the quantity of Internet-facing assets.

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Penetration Testing vs. Vulnerability Testing

eSecurity Planet

Internet of Things (IoT) devices connected to the network, such as security cameras, TVs, etc. Critical applications and internal processes, such as Active Directory (AD) ; Domain Name System (DNS) ; and accounting, banking, or operations management software. Network accessible storage (NAS) devices. Individual computers.