CSO Magazine

APRIL 25, 2022

Larry Pesce remembers the day when the distributed denial of service (DDoS) threat landscape changed dramatically. It was late fall in 2016 when a fellow researcher joined him at the InGuardians lab, where he is director of research. To read this article in full, please click here

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks cause problems for organizations of all sizes. To fight DDoS attacks, organizations and teams need to implement the three standard phases for any IT threat: preparation, reaction, and recovery. To skip ahead, click on the links: What is a DDoS Attack? Types of DDoS Attacks.

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Tech Republic Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Akamai recently released its State of the Internet and Security Report for Q3 2016, detailing the rise of certain threats and the overall security landscape.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2021

Cloudflare last month fought off a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by a botnet that was bombarding 17.2 million requests per second (rps) at one of the internet infrastructure company’s customers in the financial services space. DDoS Attacks on the Rise. That prediction proved correct.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This group has targeted WADA in the past, specifically during the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. One presumes the Olympics network is sufficiently protected against the more pedestrian DDoS attacks and the like, but who knows? The most recent Fancy Bear leak exposed details about a Canadian pole vaulter's positive results for cocaine.

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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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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

. “Size does not matter – all levels of users are under the radar of law enforcement, be it a gamer booting out the competition out of a game, or a high-level hacker carrying out DDoS attacks against commercial targets for financial gain,” Europol officials warned.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 25, 2022

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a type of cyberattack in which multiple compromised systems are used to target a single system, usually with the goal of overwhelming its resources and making it unavailable to its users. See also: How to Stop DDoS Attacks: Prevention & Response. terabits per second.

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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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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 26, 2018

million in restitution for repeatedly using Mirai to take down Internet services at Rutgers University , his former alma mater. 2016 attack that sidelined this Web site for nearly four days. At the time, Jha was president and co-founder of ProTraf Solutions , a DDoS mitigation firm that provided just such a service.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2019

Usatyuk developed and operated other DDoS-for-hire services with a co-conspirator between August 2015 and November 2017. The list of illegal DDoS-for-hire services operated by the man includes ExoStress.in (“ ExoStresser ”), QuezStresser.com, Betabooter.com (“ Betabooter ”), Databooter.com, Instabooter.com, Polystress.com, and Zstress.net.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A Mirai-based DDoS botnet tracked as IZ1H9 has added thirteen new exploits to target routers from different vendors, including D-Link, Zyxel, and TP-Link. Below is the list of exploit payloads added to the bot: D-Link: CVE-2015-1187 , CVE-2016-20017 , CVE-2020-25506 , and CVE-2021-45382. ” concludes the analysis.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Back in 2016, the primary focus of our expert was on major cybergangs that targeted financial institutions, banks in particular. Many used browsers that they were accustomed to, not browsers of choice, or default browsers set by organizations, such as the Internet Explorer. The year 2016 saw banks in Russia hacked one after another.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 23, 2021

Security firm Cloudflare successfully detected and mitigated a DDoS attack that peaked at 17.2 Omer Yoachimik, Product Manager of Cloudflare's DDoS Protection Service, discusses the scale of the attack: "For perspective on how large this attack was: Cloudflare serves over 25 million HTTP requests per second on average.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

has pleaded guilty to federal hacking charges tied to his role in operating the “ Satori ” botnet, a crime machine powered by hacked Internet of Things (IoT) devices that was built to conduct massive denial-of-service attacks targeting Internet service providers, online gaming platforms and Web hosting companies.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 13, 2021

According to a research carried out by Maryland based Cybersecurity firm Tenable, hackers are targeting millions of home routers to add them to the Mirai botnet radar that is used to launch DDoS Cyber attack campaigns. Mirai is a kind of malware that turns connected devices into remotely controlled devices called Bots.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 9, 2021

The list of affected devices include some of today’s biggest router vendors and internet service providers, such as ASUS, Orange, Vodafone, Telstra, Verizon, Deutsche Telekom, and British Telecom. Mirai is the name of the malware behind one of the most active and well-known Internet-of-Things (IoT) botnets. Mitigation.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 15, 2023

These include ransomware targeting backend servers, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, destructive malware, and even weaponizing charging stations to deploy malware. Notably, in 2016, Nissan suspended a remote telematics system in its all-electric hatchback, the Leaf, due to a vulnerability in the NissanConnect app’s server.

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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. The company states that the attacker can exploit the flaw only if he has access to the device network or the device has direct interface with the Internet. Moobot is a DDoS botnet that supports multiple attack methods.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

Malware researchers at Trend Micro have discovered a new version of the Mirai Internet of Things (IoT) botnet that includes an exploit for the CVE-2020-10173 vulnerability impacting Comtrend routers. Experts believe that vulnerability impacting Comtrend routers will likely be exploited by other DDoS botnets.

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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.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

New government rules coupled with industry standards meant to give formal shape to the Internet of Things (IoT) are rapidly quickening around the globe. The Mirai botnet, initially discovered in October 2016 , infected Internet-connected routers, cameras and digital video recorders at scale. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2018

What do we do with a company that regularly pumps metric tons of virtual toxic sludge onto the Internet and yet refuses to clean up their act? Another option: open a browser and navigate to the local Internet address of your device. A rendering of Xiongmai’s center in Hangzhou, China. Source: xiongmaitech.com.

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

This post provides a retrospective analysis of Mirai — the infamous Internet-of-Things botnet that took down major websites via massive distributed denial-of-service using hundreds of thousands of compromised Internet-Of-Things devices. At its peak in September 2016, Mirai temporarily crippled several high-profile services such as.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2020

Fbot is one of the Mirai’s variants, and Mirai is the Linux malware that originally has been detected in August 2016 by the same team who wrote the last analysis mentioned above. This wave is a significant timeline as a technology step-up for DDoS botnet and IoT malware development.

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SecureList

JUNE 8, 2022

A router is a gateway from the internet to a home or office — despite being conceived quite the opposite. In early 2022, for instance, a security researcher effectively cut off the whole North Korea from the internet by exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities in critical routers and other network equipment.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

NEROWOLFE A search on the ICQ number 669316 at Intel 471 shows that in April 2011, a user by the name NeroWolfe joined the Russian cybercrime forum Zloy using the email address d.horoshev@gmail.com , and from an Internet address in Voronezh, RU. “Installing SpyEYE, ZeuS, any DDoS and spam admin panels,” NeroWolfe wrote.

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Elie

AUGUST 18, 2017

The Mirai botnet, composed primarily of embedded and IoT devices, took the Internet by storm in late 2016 when it overwhelmed several high-profile targets with massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

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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’re relatively easy to take down and there are far larger botnets powered by newer technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT). How we found the IRC botnet.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

There’s a lot of buzz going around in many online communities concerning the recent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks the world has witnessed. In Part One we’re going to look at the differences between a denial of service (DoS) and a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Photo credit US Army Spc.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) researchers discovered a new variant of the Zerobot botnet (aka ZeroStresser) that was improved with the capabilities to target more Internet of Things (IoT) devices. com) with links to the bot was among the 48 domains associated with DDoS-for-hire services seized by the FBI in December.

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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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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

A 20-year-old from Vancouver, Washington was indicted last week on federal hacking charges and for allegedly operating the “ Satori ” botnet, a malware strain unleashed last year that infected hundreds of thousands of wireless routers and other “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices. Nexus Zeta allegedly a.k.a

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Dark web services: DDoS attacks, botnets, and zero-day IoT vulnerabilities Of all IoT-related services offered on the dark web, DDoS attacks are worth examining first. See translation I’m the world’s best-known DDoS attacker for hire (getting ahead of myself here). Our advantages: 1. Tested, tried.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 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 malware implements the same encryption scheme characteristic of Mirai, it is also able to scan for vulnerable devices and launch HTTP Flood DDoS attacks.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2019

We’re in,” Dr. John Brule said on March 29, 1994 , when the Philippine Internet had just been born. The Philippines has a bad track record of threats against press freedom with 85 documented cases of intimidation and 12 journalists killed during President Rodrigo Duterte regime (June 2016 – present). That is where we found him.

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