Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2021

TrickBot operators are back and expand the distribution channels with partnership with cybercrime affiliates. The gang support other cybercrime groups such as known Hive0105, Hive0106 (aka TA551 or Shathak), and Hive0107, supporting them in expanding their malware campaigns. ” reads the post published by IBM X-Force.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 26, 2018

According to sentencing memo submitted by government prosecutors, in his freshman and sophomore years at Rutgers Jha used a collection of hacked devices to launch at least four distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the university’s networks. 2016 attack that sidelined this Web site for nearly four days.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Three men who admitted to being the authors of the Mirai botnet avoided the jail after helping the FBI in other cybercrime investigations. I’m following the evolution of Mirai botnet since MalwareMustDie shared with me the findings of its investigation in August 2016. The trio will continue to offer their support to the feds.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2022

Operators behind the Mirai-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet Beastmode (aka B3astmode) added exploits for Totolink routers. The Mirai -based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet Beastmode (aka B3astmode) now includes exploits for Totolink routers. CVE-2017-17215 targets Huawei HG532 routers.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

These botnets, networks of compromised devices, can perform attacks without the user realizing it, overwhelming networks, spreading spam, and even launching DDoS attacks. Warding off zombies : Regularly update device firmware, patch IoT devices, and monitor for unusual traffic patterns.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2018

million in compensation for DDoS attacks against the systems of Rutgers University. million in compensation for DDoS attacks against the systems of Rutgers University. In September, Jha and two accomplices admitted to be the authors of the infamous botnet and avoided the jail after helping feds in another cybercrime investigations.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The expert pointed out that every firmware developed since 2016 has been tested and found to be vulnerable. It tries to drop a downloader that exhibits infection behavior and that also executes Moobot, which is a DDoS botnet based on Mirai.” Moobot is a DDoS botnet that supports multiple attack methods.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2019

The British hacker Daniel Kaye (29) has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for the 2016 attack that took down telecommunications services in Liberia. An employee of the rival firm Cellcom paid Kaye to carry out a DDoS attack on the Liberian phone and internet provider Lonestar. SecurityAffairs – Liberia, DDoS).

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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. Upon installing the threat, the bot drops a file in /tmp/.pwned

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In September 2016, Yahoo confirmed it was the victim of one of the largest cybersecurity breaches in history. Students Pay for Cybercrime. Take it from Rutgers University, which experienced six DDoS attacks in 2015 – one of which lasted as long as five days. suffered from a massive cyberattack in March 2016.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

com) with links to the bot was among the 48 domains associated with DDoS-for-hire services seized by the FBI in December. The most recent variant spotted by Microsoft spreads by exploiting vulnerabilities in Apache and Apache Spark ( CVE-2021-42013 and CVE-2022-33891 respectively) and also supports new DDoS attack capabilities.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Of course, we should note that the opposite is also possible: for instance, starting in June 2016, but most notably since September 2016 all the way to December 2016, the Turla group intensified their satellite-based C&C registrations tenfold compared to its 2015 average.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 3, 2021

DDoS attacks are an issue. The official BlackLivesMatter (BLM) website has been repeatedly targeted by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks following its registration in late 2014. Cyberattacks increase after major racial incidents.

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Responsible Cyber

APRIL 8, 2020

According to a 2016 survey conducted by Ponemon Institute, 22% of businesses blamed cyberattacks on insiders. As cybercrime has become well-funded and increasingly sophisticated, phishing remains one of the most effective methods used by criminals to introduce malware into businesses. DDoS Attacks. Phishing and Spear Phishing.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Cyber security measures ensure this data is safeguarded against breaches, fraud, hacking, and other forms of cybercrime. Banks can minimize the financial risks associated with cybercrime by investing in advanced cyber security solutions. These attacks overwhelmed their online banking platforms, causing significant service disruptions.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

Mirai malware first appeared in the wild in 2016 when the expert MalwareMustDie discovered it in massive attacks aimed at Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The new samples also use a new “TCP SYN” DDoS attack option called “attack_method_ovh.” ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2019

The popular expert unixfreaxjp analyzed a new China ELF DDoS’er malware tracked as “Linux/DDoSMan” that evolves from the Elknot malware to deliver new ELF bot. The code seems inspired from multiple source code of China basis DDoS client, like Elknot. Figure 2: The C2 software for Linux DDoS.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The consequences of which are not only born by companies who are the primary targets of cybercrime. The first wave of attacks began around 2016, just as IoT transitioned from the realms of science fiction to viable reality. Your home systems are more vulnerable than you think. The first IoT casualties?

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 4, 2022

According to a report from McAfee Enterprise and FireEye titled, "Cybercrime in a Pandemic World: The Impact of COVID-19," 81% of global organizations have experienced increased cyberthreats, and 79% experienced downtime from an attack during a peak season. Before leakware came doxware, which was popular in 2016 and 2017.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2023

The Mirai botnet, discovered back in 2016, is still active today. The list of targeted devices includes routers, DVRs, access control systems, and Solar power generation monitoring systems. The researchers observed two campaigns, respectively in March and June. . “The widespread adoption of IoT devices has become a ubiquitous trend.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2022

There is also ample evidence to suggest that Glupteba may have spawned Meris , a massive botnet of hacked Internet of Things (IoT) devices that surfaced in September 2021 and was responsible for some of the largest and most disruptive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks the Internet has ever seen. But on Dec. 7,” Kilmer said.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

. · Firefox DoS issue crashes the browser and sometimes the Windows OS. · Akamai Report: Credential stuffing attacks are a growing threat. · Bitcoin Core Team fixes a critical DDoS flaw in wallet software. · SHEIN Data breach affected 6.42 Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2021

For example, April saw the active distribution of a new DDoS botnet called Simps — the name under which it introduced itself to owners of infected devices. The malware creators promoted their brainchild on a specially set-up YouTube channel and Discord server, where they discussed DDoS attacks.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2019

Statistics from 2016 showed that the average cost per compromised retail record was $172. It also tops the list of annual cybercrime costs at about $18 million. But, the expenses climb dramatically for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In December, Canada’s Laurentian University reported a DDoS attack. Educational institutions are recommended to use anti-DDoS solutions and strong firewall settings, and partner up with ISPs. In early October, a DDoS attack was reported by the PUBG Mobile team. But it dealt with the problem in a matter of minutes.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

We attribute the campaign, named SnatchCrypto, to the BlueNoroff APT group, the threat actor behind the 2016 attack on Bangladesh’s central bank. Subsequently, DDoS attacks hit some government websites. The campaign has two goals: gathering information and stealing cryptocurrency. Lapsus$ group hacks Okta.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

As first detailed by KrebsOnSecurity in July 2016 , Orcus is the brainchild of John “Armada” Rezvesz , a Toronto resident who until recently maintained and sold the RAT under the company name Orcus Technologies. An advertisement for Orcus RAT. In an “official press release” posted to pastebin.com on Mar. 2017 analysis of the RAT.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

CISA adds Oracle, SugarCRM bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog GoAnywhere MFT zero-day flaw actively exploited CERT-FR warns of a new wave of ransomware attacks targeting VMware ESXi servers Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare, Florida, has taken IT systems offline after cyberattack Exploitation attempts for Oracle E-Business Suite flaw (..)

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The evolution of Iran's cybercrime objectives. The DDoS nation-state hackers. These men perpetrated distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in a coordinated effort to cause disruption in American financial institutions. And this face-off continues: "The U.S. and Israel. Department of the Treasury.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In July 2001, the Code Red Worm attempted to subject the entire Internet to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Eventually, the infected computers were all directed to attempt a DDoS specifically on whitehouse.gov, though the White House managed to sidestep the assault. Welcome to [link] Hacked By Chinese!”.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2020

Justice Department today criminally charged a Canadian and a Northern Ireland man for allegedly conspiring to build botnets that enslaved hundreds of thousands of routers and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices for use in large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. — pleaded guilty in Sept.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

German authorities said Friday they’d arrested seven people and were investigating six more in connection with the raid of a Dark Web hosting operation that allegedly supported multiple child porn, cybercrime and drug markets with hundreds of servers buried inside a heavily fortified military bunker.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Sergei Mikhailov , formerly deputy chief of Russia’s top anti-cybercrime unit, was sentenced today to 22 years in prison. In 2013, Vrublevsky was convicted of hiring his most-trusted spammer and malware writer to launch a crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against one of his company’s chief competitors.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2024

EastWind campaign targets Russian organizations with sophisticated backdoors Microsoft found OpenVPN bugs that can be chained to achieve RCE and LPE Foreign nation-state actors hacked Donald Trump’s campaign Malware ADT disclosed a data breach that impacted more than 30,000 customers International Press – Newsletter Cybercrime Hackers leak 2.7

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

Hackers started using the internet to commit cybercrimes, such as stealing credit card numbers and personal information. 2000s As digitization opened up new avenues for exploits, the early 2000s marked a continuation of the rise of both computer hacking and cybercrime that began in the 1990s.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

We can learn a lot from the cybercrime of the past…the history of cybercrime is a glimpse into what we can expect in the future. In the past 18 months, we’ve experienced the beginning of an era that has seen cybersecurity and cybercrime at the center of it all. Dateline Cybercrime . Robert Herjavec.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Ahead of the 2018 US midterm elections , sellers are flooding the cybercrime underground markets with data from voter databases. “Some of the hackers and hacking teams “offer to target government entities for the purposes of database manipulation, economic/corporate espionage, DDoS attacks, and botnet rentals.”

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