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A powerful DDoS attack hit Hungarian banks and telecoms services

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Hungarian financial institutions and telecommunications infrastructure were hit by a powerful DDoS attack originating from servers in Russia, China and Vietnam. A powerful DDoS attack hit some Hungarian banking and telecommunication services that briefly disrupted them. ” reported the Reuters agency. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Akamai mitigated the largest ever PPS DDoS attack

Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2020

Akamai announced to have mitigated a record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that hit a European bank. Akamai revealed that a bank in Europe was hit by a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked a record 809 million packets per second (PPS). SecurityAffairs – hacking, DDoS). Pierluigi Paganini.

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AWS mitigated largest DDoS attack ever of 2.3 Tbps

Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

Tbps DDoS attack, the largest ever, which surpassed the previous record of 1.7 Amazon announced it has mitigated the largest ever DDoS attack of 2.3 ” The report didn’t name the target of the DDoS attack, AWS experts only revealed that the magnitude was obtained with CLDAP reflection attack. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Silence Hacking Crew threatens Australian banks of DDoS attacks

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

DDoS extortionists are blackmailing Australian banks asking for payments of large sums in Monero cryptocurrency threatening DDoS attacks. Cybercriminals are threatening Australian banks of DDoS attacks if they will not pay large sums in Monero cryptocurrency. SecurityAffairs – hacking, DDoS). Pierluigi Paganini.

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German encrypted email service Tutanota suffers DDoS attacks

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The popular encrypted email service Tutanota was hit with a series of DDoS attacks this week targeting its website fist and its DNS providers later. Encrypted email service, Tutanota suffered a series of DDoS attacks that initially targeted the website and later its DNS providers. ” reads a blog post published by Tutanota.

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Google mitigated a 2.54 Tbps DDoS attack in 2017, the largest DDoS ever seen

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The Google Cloud team revealed that in September 2017 it has mitigated DDoS attack that reached 2.54 Tbps, the largest DDoS attack of ever. The Google Cloud team revealed that back in September 2017 it has mitigated a powerful DDoS attack that clocked at 2.54 Tbps DDoS attack mitigated by Amazon’s AWS in February.

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Experts warn of surge in DDoS attacks targeting education institutions

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Experts warn of a surge in the DDoS attacks against education institutions and the academic industry across the world. The DDoS attacks are causing severe issues to the targeted education institutions such as temporarily takedown of the network and online classes. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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For the second time in a few days, Greek Government websites hit by DDoS attacks

Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2020

The Greek government announced that a DDoS cyber attack hit the official state websites of the prime minister, the national police and fire service and several important ministries. “[A denial-of-service or DDoS attack] led to the malfunction of certain websites.” said Government spokesman Stelios Petsas. Pierluigi Paganini.

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New XORDDoS, Kaiji DDoS botnet variants target Docker servers

Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2020

Operators behind XORDDoS and Kaiji DDoS botnets recently started targeting Docker servers exposed online, Trend Micro warns. Trend Micro researchers reported that operators behind XORDDoS and Kaiji DDoS botnets recently started targeting Docker servers exposed online. Use security tools to scan and secure containers.

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Enemybot, a new DDoS botnet appears in the threat landscape

Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2022

Enemybot is a DDoS botnet that targeted several routers and web servers by exploiting known vulnerabilities. Researchers from Fortinet discovered a new DDoS botnet, tracked as Enemybot, that has targeted several routers and web servers by exploiting known vulnerabilities. Upon installing the threat, the bot drops a file in /tmp/.pwned

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Massive DDoS attack brought down 25% Iranian Internet connectivity

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

ICT ministry officials confirmed that the Digital Fortress system repelled a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. A spokesperson for Iran’s Telecommunication Infrastructure Company, confirmed via Twitter that a DDoS attack had been “normalized” with the “intervention of the Dzhafa Shield.”

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New Lucifer DDoS botnet targets Windows systems with multiple exploits

Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2020

Upon infecting a system the bot turns it into a cryptomining client and could use it to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The malware author named the bot Satan DDoS, but Palo Alto Network’s Unit42 researchers dubbed it Lucifer because there’s another malware with the same name, the Satan Ransomware.

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Hoaxcalls Botnet expands the target list and adds new DDoS capabilities

Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2020

The Hoaxcalls IoT botnet expanded the list of targeted devices and has added new distributed denial of service (DDoS) capabilities. The botnet was initially designed to launch DDoS attacks using UDP, DNS and HEX floods. Experts also noticed that the new variant implements 16 new DDoS capabilities. ” Radware concludes.

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Developer of DDoS Mirai based botnets sentenced to prison

Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2020

A man accused to have developed distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnets based on the Mirai botnet was sentenced to 13 months in federal prison. Schuchman compromised hundreds of thousands of IoT devices, including home routers and IP cameras, to create multiple DDoS IoT botnets that he rented to carry out the attacks.

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New Zealand stock exchange (NZX) halted 2 days by DDoS attack

Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

New Zealand’s stock exchange (NZX) confirmed it was hit by a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack from abroad that knocked it offline two days. The DDoS attack impacted traders, anyway financial or personal information of the users was not accessed. Pierluigi Paganini.

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T-Mobile suffered a major outage in the US allegedly caused by a massive DDoS attack

Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2020

Wireless carrier T-Mobile suffered a major outage in the United States, that impacted service at other carriers, due to a “massive” DDoS attack. Wireless carrier T-Mobile suffered a massive DDoS attack that caused a major outage in the United States that impacted service at other carriers due to a “massive” DDoS attack.

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SANDMAN AND FINEPROXY BEHIND THE DDOS ATTACKS AGAINST TIMETV.LIVE

Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

Timetv.live is the latest Azeri news site targeted by Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks launched by Sandman threat actor, the attack took place on March 21, 2020. Just like many other DDoS attacks we have seen in the past against Azeri media, the attacker monitors the success of the floods using the HostTracker service.

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DDoS-for-Hire Services operator sentenced to 13 months in prison

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

the administrator of DDoS-for-hire services was sentenced to 13 months in prison, and additional three years of supervised release. Usatyuk , a man that was operating several DDoS-for-hire services was sentenced to 13 months in prison, and additional three years of supervised release. Sergiy P. , hours of network downtime.

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Massive DDos attack hit Telegram, company says most of junk traffic is from China

Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2019

Encrypted messaging service Telegram was hit by a major DDoS attack apparently originated from China, likely linked to the ongoing political unrest in Hong Kong. We’re currently experiencing a powerful DDoS attack, Telegram users in the Americas and some users from other countries may experience connection issues. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Dutch police shut down bulletproof service hosting tens of DDoS botnets

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Dutch police seized a bulletproof hosting service in a major takedown, the infrastructure was used by tens of IoT botnets involved in DDoS attacks. The servers were hosted at an unnamed data center in Amsterdam, it was used by tens of IoT botnets involved in DDoS attacks worldwide. ” continues the statement. Pierluigi Paganini.

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China used the Great Cannon DDoS Tool against forum used by Hong Kong protestors

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2019

China is accused to have used the “Great Cannon” DDoS tool to launch attacks against LIHKG , a forum used by Hong Kong residents to organize protests. The last time the Great Cannon was used by the Chinese authorities was in 2017 when it was involved in DDoS attacks on the Mingjingnews.com site, a US-based Chinese media outlet.

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Dark Frost Botnet targets the gaming sector with powerful DDoS

Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2023

Researchers spotted a new botnet dubbed Dark Frost that is used to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the gaming industry. Researchers from Akamai discovered a new botnet called Dark Frost that was employed in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Gbps through a UDP flood attack.

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Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

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HinataBot, a new Go-Based DDoS botnet in the threat landscape

Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2023

A new Golang-based DDoS botnet, tracked as HinataBot, targets routers and servers by exploiting known vulnerabilities. Akamai researchers spotted a new DDoS Golang-based botnet, dubbed HinataBot, which has been observed exploiting known flaws to compromise routers and servers.

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DDoS Attack on Amazon Web Services caused intermittently outage

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2019

This week Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a major distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that made it unavailable for some customers. This week, threat actors launched a massive DDoS attack against Amazon Web Services (AWS) causing the inability of some customers to access their AWS S3 buckets. SecurityAffairs – Amazon, DDoS).

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Hacker who disrupted Sony gaming gets a 27-months jail sentence

Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2019

Austin Thompson (23) from Utah, the hacker who carried out massive DDoS attacks on Sony, EA, and Steam gets a 27-months prison sentence. The hacker who brought offline with massive DDoS attacks online gaming networks between December 2013 and January 2014 has been sentenced to 27 months in prison. SecurityAffairs – Sony, DDoS).

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 270

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JUNE 28, 2020

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 282

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

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Bot list with Telnet credentials for more than 500,000 servers and IoT devices leaked online

Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2020

According to ZDNet that first published the news, the list was leaked on a popular hacking forum by the operator of a DDoS booter service. “As ZDNet understands, the list was published online by the maintainer of a DDoS-for-hire (DDoS booter ) service.” ” reported ZDNet. ” reported ZDNet.

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The Mystery of Fbot

Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2020

This article explains what we have learned about the Fbot traced back from the year of 2014. This wave is a significant timeline as a technology step-up for DDoS botnet and IoT malware development. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. The background before Fbot Mirai variant.

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Google warned users of 33,015 nation-state attacks since January

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2020

This week, the Google Cloud team revealed that in September 2017 it has mitigated DDoS attack that reached 2.54 Tbps, the largest DDoS attack of ever. 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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Wikipedia suffered intermittent outages as a result of a malicious attack

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The popular free online encyclopedia Wikipedia was not reachable following what it has described as a “malicious attack” Popular online reference website Wikipedia went down in several countries after the server of the Wikimedia Foundation that host it were hit by a “massive” Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.

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FBI arrested a Russian national for recruiting employee of US firm to plant malware

Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2020

Firstly, the malware appears to be an external DDoS attack. This attack occupies the company’s computer security staff and conceals the second attack.” ” The crooks were planning to launch a DDoS attack as a diversionary tactic, then to exfiltrate the data. ” complete the reason. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Crooks exploit exposed Docker APIs to build AESDDoS botnet

Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2019

” The AESDDoS malware is active since at least since 2014 and it was used to build large DDoS botnet. ” The malware also collects system information and send it back to the C2, depending on the specific hardware configuration the attackers can choose which kind of activity to carry out (i.e. Pierluigi Paganini.

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New Ttint IoT botnet exploits two zero-days in Tenda routers

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Unlike other IoT DDoS botnets, Ttint implements 12 remote access functions such as Socket5 proxy for router devices, tampering with router firewall and DNS settings, executing remote custom system commands. . ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” concludes the report.

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Creator of multiple IoT botnets, including Satori, pleaded guilty

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Kenneth Currin Schuchman (21) from Vancouver, Washington pleaded guilty to creating and operating multiple DDoS IoT botnet , including Satori. Kenneth Currin Schuchman (21) from Vancouver, Washington, aka Nexus Zeta, pleaded guilty to creating and operating multiple DDoS IoT botnets. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IP-in-IP flaw affects devices from Cisco and other vendors

Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2020

An unauthenticated attacker can route network traffic through a vulnerable device, which may lead to reflective DDoS, information leak and bypass of network access controls,” reads the advisory published by the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC). Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Roboto, a new P2P botnet targets Linux Webmin servers

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

.” The analysis of the bot revealed that it supports seven functions: reverse shell, self-uninstall, gather process’ network information, gather Bot information, execute system commands, run encrypted files specified in URLs, DDoS attack, etc. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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EnemyBot malware adds new exploits to target CMS servers and Android devices

Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2022

The botnet was first discovered by Fortinet in March, the DDoS botnet targeted several routers and web servers by exploiting known vulnerabilities. The researchers attribute the botnet to the cybercrime group Keksec which focuses on DDoS-based extortion. The botnet targets multiple architectures, including arm, bsd, x64, and x86.

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Mozi Botnet is responsible for most of the IoT Traffic

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The Mozi botnet was spotted by security experts from 360 Netlab, at the time of its discovered it was actively targeting Netgear, D-Link, and Huawei routers by probing for weak Telnet passwords to compromise them. According to the researchers, in the last months of 2019, the botnet was mainly involved in DDoS attacks.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 269

Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2020

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Dark web Grey Market still down, users speculate possible Exit Scam

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Some users speculate that several black marketplaces, including the Grey Market, were hit by powerful DDoS attacks. Anyway, a market administrator familiar with the ongoing DDoS attacks, told Darknetlive that Grey Market had used the ongoing DDOS attack as an excuse for fraudulent activity. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs –.

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Hackers targeted the US Census Bureau network, DHS report warns

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2020

” In the past, the US Census has been hit by attacks, such as hacks and DDoS attacks during a 2018 test of census systems attributed to Russia-linked hackers and a 2015 hack attributed to the Anonymous collective. ” This HTA annual report provides information of threats targeting the US to government and private sector partners.

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New Mirai variant includes exploit for a flaw in Comtrend Routers

Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

Experts believe that vulnerability impacting Comtrend routers will likely be exploited by other DDoS botnets. This flaw is exploited along other security vulnerabilities impacting routers, IP cameras, and other IoT devices. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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A powerful DDoS attack hit Hungarian banks and telecoms services

Akamai mitigated the largest ever PPS DDoS attack

Trending Sources

AWS mitigated largest DDoS attack ever of 2.3 Tbps

Silence Hacking Crew threatens Australian banks of DDoS attacks

German encrypted email service Tutanota suffers DDoS attacks

Google mitigated a 2.54 Tbps DDoS attack in 2017, the largest DDoS ever seen

Experts warn of surge in DDoS attacks targeting education institutions

For the second time in a few days, Greek Government websites hit by DDoS attacks

New XORDDoS, Kaiji DDoS botnet variants target Docker servers

Enemybot, a new DDoS botnet appears in the threat landscape

Massive DDoS attack brought down 25% Iranian Internet connectivity

New Lucifer DDoS botnet targets Windows systems with multiple exploits

Hoaxcalls Botnet expands the target list and adds new DDoS capabilities

Developer of DDoS Mirai based botnets sentenced to prison

New Zealand stock exchange (NZX) halted 2 days by DDoS attack

T-Mobile suffered a major outage in the US allegedly caused by a massive DDoS attack

SANDMAN AND FINEPROXY BEHIND THE DDOS ATTACKS AGAINST TIMETV.LIVE

DDoS-for-Hire Services operator sentenced to 13 months in prison

Massive DDos attack hit Telegram, company says most of junk traffic is from China

Dutch police shut down bulletproof service hosting tens of DDoS botnets

China used the Great Cannon DDoS Tool against forum used by Hong Kong protestors

Dark Frost Botnet targets the gaming sector with powerful DDoS

Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

HinataBot, a new Go-Based DDoS botnet in the threat landscape

DDoS Attack on Amazon Web Services caused intermittently outage

Hacker who disrupted Sony gaming gets a 27-months jail sentence

Security Affairs newsletter Round 270

Security Affairs newsletter Round 282

Bot list with Telnet credentials for more than 500,000 servers and IoT devices leaked online

The Mystery of Fbot

Google warned users of 33,015 nation-state attacks since January

Wikipedia suffered intermittent outages as a result of a malicious attack

FBI arrested a Russian national for recruiting employee of US firm to plant malware

Crooks exploit exposed Docker APIs to build AESDDoS botnet

New Ttint IoT botnet exploits two zero-days in Tenda routers

Creator of multiple IoT botnets, including Satori, pleaded guilty

IP-in-IP flaw affects devices from Cisco and other vendors

Roboto, a new P2P botnet targets Linux Webmin servers

EnemyBot malware adds new exploits to target CMS servers and Android devices

Mozi Botnet is responsible for most of the IoT Traffic

Security Affairs newsletter Round 269

Dark web Grey Market still down, users speculate possible Exit Scam

Hackers targeted the US Census Bureau network, DHS report warns

New Mirai variant includes exploit for a flaw in Comtrend Routers

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