Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2019

” The AESDDoS malware is active since at least since 2014 and it was used to build large DDoS botnet. launching DDoS attacker, mining cryptocurrency, etc.). The malware could allow the attackers to launch several types of DDoS attacks, including SYN, LSYN, UDP, UDPS, and TCP flood. ” states the report.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

“There was an uncontrolled resource consumption and out-of-memory (OOM) vulnerability that could have been easily exploited in a denial-of-service (DoS/DDoS) attack against many Bitcoin, Litecoin, Namecoin and Decred nodes by any other network participant.” Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2020

DDoS attack or exit scam? Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Experts pointed out that the bot doesn’t contain any offensive features, such as the ability to launch DDoS attacks or to mine cryptocurrency, a circumstance that suggests the malware is under development. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” concludes the post.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2020

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The three men, Josiah White (21) of Washington, Pennsylvania; Paras Jha (22), of Fanwood, New Jersey, and Dalton Norman (22), of Metairie, Louisiana , pleaded guilty in December 2017 to developing and running the dreaded Mirai botnet that was involved in several massive DDoS attacks. ” continues the press release. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, has estimated that cryptocurrency exchanges suffered a total loss of $882 million due to targeted attacks in 2017 and in the first three quarters of 2018. At the beginning of 2018 hackers’ interest in cryptocurrency exchanges ramped up.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2020

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2018

Analysis of the code indicates that it could be used as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) platform if enough devices are compromised. Since it appears to be killing Monero mining processes, the compromised devices could be retasked to mine cryptocurrency for a different group. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Security researchers at Cisco Talos are warning of a spike in attacks on unsecured Elasticsearch clusters to drop cryptocurrency miners. and lower) to compromise them and install the malicious code the exploit the CVE-2014-3120 and CVE-2015-1427 vulnerabilities. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

Pavel Vrublevsky , founder of the Russian payment technology firm ChronoPay and the antagonist in my 2014 book “ Spam Nation ,” was arrested in Moscow this month and charged with fraud. Inferno Pay, a cryptocurrency and payment API allegedly operated by the ChronoPay CEO. In 2013, Vrublevsky was sentenced to 2.5

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

. “More and more exploits are being weaponized by cybercriminals, and infected devices are used to steal personal data and mine cryptocurrencies, on top of traditional DDoS attacks. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” concludes Kaspersky.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 28, 2021

Since blockchain’s arrival, cryptocurrency has framed the technology as permissionless, or a public blockchain. 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. Chronicled.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2020

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Group-IB assisted Paxful, an international peer-to-peer cryptocurrency marketplace, in countering web-bot and social engineering attacks. They are a big headache for eCommerce businesses today, with cybercriminals using them to steal money, brute-force user credentials or carry out DDoS attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Experts warn of spike in TCP DDoS reflection attacks targeting Amazon, SoftLayer and telco infrastructure. DDoS-for-Hire Services operator sentenced to 13 months in prison. Two men arrested for stealing $550,000 in cryptocurrency with Sim Swapping. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

DDoS attacks from rivals are common, so several domains working together keeps things ticking over. We’ve noted the gradual emergence of Bitcoin ATMs in scams previously; here, cryptocurrency ATMs are more popular as a payment method to SSNDOB than other dubious online services.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

. “Unlike the aforementioned IoT botnets, this one tries to be more stealthy and persistent once the device is compromised, and it does not (yet) do the usual stuff a botnet does like DDOS , attacking all the devices connected to the internet, or, of course, mining cryptocurrencies.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Bad actors can also take over unsecured printers and incorporate them into botnets in order to perform DDoS attacks , send spam, and more. Or they can simply use these printers to mine cryptocurrency, ramping up their victims’ electricity bills in the process. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

DDoS attack, cryptocurrency miner, data harvesting). One of the first attacks against QNAP is dated back 2014, at the time security experts at Sans Institute discovered a worm that exploits the popular Shellshock flaw to compromise QNAP systems in the wild. Load new modules implementing new features from the C2 servers.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

The first version spotted by TrendMicro includes a DDoS script that could be used by botmaster to set-up DDoS for-hire service offered on the dark web. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2018

In 2014 it reached the pinnacle of success, becoming the fourth largest botnet in the world. DDoS attacks, ransomware-based campaigns, cryptocurrency mining campaigns). In 2015, Europol partnering with several private technology firms announced the takedown of the Ramnit C2 infrastructure.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 2, 2024

CMD_MINER or CMD_EMPTY0x271ERequests a cryptocurrency miner executable from the server. For example, in SmokeLoader version 2014, the bot ID was generated from the computer name and volume information using a custom algorithm that combined CRC32 and XOR. If BOT_OPT is 1, the attack was executed successfully.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Rescator, advertising a new batch of cards stolen in a 2014 breach at P.F. Investigators would later determine that a variant of the malware used in the Target breach was used in 2014 to steal 56 million payment cards from Home Depot customers. Chang’s. Pavel Vrublevsky’s former Facebook profile photo. WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2023

Lolek Hosted is a bulletproof hosting service provider used to facilitate the distribution of information-stealing malware, and also to launch DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks, manage fictitious online shops, manage botnet servers and distribute spam messages worldwide. A joint operation conducted by European and U.S.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2019

In 2014, the personal records of some 40 million Target shoppers, including names and credit card numbers, were stolen by hackers. DDoS Attacks Will Become More Common. In the third quarter of 2018, DDoS attacks increased in frequency by 71 percent over the previous quarter. Cryptocurrency Will Either Come of Age or Crumble.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2018

“Thousands of Instagram followers, Facebook likes, YouTube views and Twitter retweets are available for a small amount of cryptocurrency on the dark web. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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