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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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.

DDOS 113

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-4034 , has “been hiding in plain sight” for more than 12 years and infects all versions of polkit’s pkexec since it was first developed in 2009, Bharat Jogi, director of vulnerability and threat research at Qualys, wrote in a blog post.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 14, 2022

Phishing attacks, vulnerability exploits, DDoS attacks, and much more threaten your company’s Macs at any time — and if any of them are successful, it could cost your business millions in lost productivity and information theft. And it’s not just malware you have to worry about with your Mac endpoints.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Security services and tools include anti-DDoS , SOCaaS , web application firewalls (WAF), data encryption , and more. For customers looking to bundle, Huawei offers vulnerability scanning , WAFs, and advanced DDoS protection. The DBSS database audit supports eight database types including MySQL, Oracle, and SQL Server.

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Firewall Encryption Computers and Electronics Software 122

eSecurity Planet

JULY 28, 2021

DDoS: Overwhelming the Network. In the age-old denial of service (DDoS) attack, a fleet of attacker devices can overwhelm an organization’s web server, thus blocking access to legitimate users. Starting with Bitcoin (BTC) in 2009, it’s the on and off again hype of cryptocurrency that’s led the blockchain technology movement.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

This includes Active Directory for identity and access management, Windows Defender, Azure cloud security services such as Security Center, Key Vault, Azure DDoS Protection, Azure Information Protection and Application Gateway for protecting Web applications. Founded: 2009. Imperva (WAF, database security, threat intelligence, DDoS ).

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2021

Since 2009, Okta has been a thought leader in the access, authentication, and authorization space. For NGFWs, Akamai’s Kona Site Defender can deflect the most significant DDoS attacks , maintain performance during attacks, and pre-define application-layer controls. Identity and access management (IAM): Okta.

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Network Security Firewall Software Technology 118

eSecurity Planet

MAY 6, 2021

With two options to choose from, the Web Application Protector (WAP) offers DDoS protection , bot management, and is pre-configured to detect the latest threats. Cloudflare is a web infrastructure and cybersecurity company founded in 2009 and located in San Francisco, California. Cloudflare WAF. Read our in-depth review of Imperva WAF.

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Firewall DDOS Marketing Technology 52

ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 5, 2021

That would make this denial of service attack roughly twice as powerful as any similar previously recorded DDoS attack at the time. That said, there would not be any DDoS attack, and the targets, say, on the other hand, if you lock the traffic from the c&c server, you might not be infected. terabits per second.

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IoT DDOS Malware Internet 52

The Security Ledger

JANUARY 23, 2024

Niels Provos, Head of Security Efficacy at Lacework Niels’ subsequent work included a stint as the Head of Security at payments startup Stripe.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

Wazawaka spent his early days on Exploit and other forums selling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that could knock websites offline for about USD $80 a day. That last domain was originally registered in 2009 to a Mikhail P. “Come, rob, and get dough! Matveyev , in Abakan, Khakassia.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 27, 2022

NOTE: I took these screenshots circa 2009. Back in 2009 there was a major speculation that Russia indeed launched a massive DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against Georgia which was in fact true. The post Who DDoS-ed Georgia/Bobbear.co.uk and a Multitude of Russian Homosexual Sites in 2009? bstatus.php.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In the past, the country has been credibly blamed or proven responsible for several cyberattacks against Ukraine and its surrounding neighbors, including DDoS attacks in Estonia in 2007, Georgia in 2008, and Kyrgyzstan in 2009.

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Cybersecurity Ransomware Malware Government 104

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! A federal grand jury indicts Albert Gonzalez and two Russian accomplices in 2009. He is arrested and sentenced to 20 months in prison.

Cybercrime 135

Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135

Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2022

Sandworm Team : Active since at least 2009, this APT is another group associated with Russia’s GRU, and has even collaborated directly with APT28. Their attacks are becoming better catered towards each victim as they go, and their success appears to indicate further high-value target hunting on large enterprises in the future.

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