Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2024

An attacker can exploit the flaw to bypass protections for a previous vulnerability, CVE-2012-1823, using specific character sequences. Akamai researchers also observed threat actors behind the DDoS botnet Muhstik exploiting this vulnerability. The bot also connects to the command and control domain p.findmeatthe[.]top,

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, in 2010 Spamdot and its spam affiliate program Spamit were hacked, and its user database shows Sal and Icamis often accessed the forum from the same Internet address — usually from Cherepovets , an industrial town situated approximately 230 miles north of Moscow. And there were many good reasons to support this conclusion.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The seizure notice appearing on the homepage this week of more than a dozen popular “booter” or “stresser” DDoS-for-hire Web sites. Investigators say Bukoski’s booter service was among the longest running services targeted by the FBI, operating since at least 2012. bullstresser[.]net. critical-boot[.]com.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Infiltrating a cybercriminal operation can provide valuable data about different types of malicious activities, including DDoS attacks , malware distribution, and more. They went on to state that they usually dealt with such intruders by carrying out DDoS attacks against them. How we found the IRC botnet. Testing, backdoors, and money.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Below is the list of vulnerabilities exploited by V3G4: CVE-2012-4869 : FreePBX Elastix Remote Command Execution Vulnerability Gitorious Remote Command Execution Vulnerability CVE-2014-9727 : FRITZ!Box ” concludes the report. “Therefore, it is highly recommended that patches and updates are applied when possible.”

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Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

Hundreds of millions of user passwords left exposed to Facebook employees: News recently broke that Facebook left the passwords of between 200 million and 600 million users unencrypted and available to the company’s 20,000 employees going back as far as 2012. This article originally appeared on Inc.com.

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

distributed Denial of service attacks (DDoS). Mirai represents a turning point for DDoS attacks: IoT botnets are the new norm. Behind the scenes, many of these turns occurred as various hacking groups fought to control and exploit IoT devices for drastically different motives. OVH DDoS attack. Krebs on Security.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

The Outlaw Hacking Group is back, malware researchers from Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab have uncovered a new botnet that is targeting European organizations. The Linux malware is the well-known “ Shellbot ”, it is a crimetool belonging to the arsenal of a threat actor tracked as the “Outlaw Hacking Group. ”. Introduction. Technical Analysis.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The Adwind RAT was first discovered early 2012, the experts dubbed it Frutas RAT and later it was identified with other names, Unrecom RAT (February 2014), AlienSpy (October 2014), and recently JSocket RAT (June 2015). DDoS attacks, brute-forcing attacks).

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 19, 2021

For example, alerts produced by one firewall under a DDoS attack can easily dwarf the number of alerts generated from a single exploit that hits hundreds of organizations. Simply looking at the raw numbers in this case would give the false impression that DDoS attacks have a far greater impact across the base of organizations.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2019

Necurs botnet is currently the second largest spam botnet , it has been active since at least 2012 and was involved in massive campaigns spreading malware such as the Locky ransomware , the Scarab ransomware , and the Dridex banking Trojan. SecurityAffairs – Necurs botnet, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Compare that to 2012 when the UAE ranked fifth in the Global Cybersecurity Index. Email Hack Scams Dubai-based Exhibition Firms Client Roster Cheers Exhibition, a Dubai-based firm, was targeted in an elaborate phishing attack that took control of its email services and phished its client roster.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

FLASHBACK The new clues about Rescator’s identity came into focus when I revisited the reporting around an April 2013 story here that identified the author of the OSX Flashback Trojan , an early malware strain that quickly spread to more than 650,000 Mac computers worldwide in 2012. “Good afternoon,” r-fac1 wrote on Dec.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Blaauw said sometime between 2012 and 2013, Xennt purchased the bunker in Traben-Trarbach, Germany — a much more modern structure that was built in 1997. Kamphuis was later arrested in Spain on the DDoS attack charges. Image: Blaauw. in The Netherlands. in The Netherlands.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

What makes Iran's military hacking methods a significant threat? In the digital world, bad actors are using social engineering methods to hack on behalf of the Iranian government, even threatening the 2020 U.S. The DDoS nation-state hackers. Iran's cyber warfare operations are not typically covered as extensively as some others.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1834 — French Telegraph System — A pair of thieves hack the French Telegraph System and steal financial market information, effectively conducting the world’s first cyberattack. 1870 — Switchboard Hack — A teenager hired as a switchboard operator is able to disconnect and redirect calls and use the line for personal usage. .

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