Krebs on Security

JANUARY 20, 2020

A Georgia man who co-founded a service designed to protect companies from crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has pleaded to paying a DDoS-for-hire service to launch attacks against others. Tucker Preston , 22, of Macon, Ga., ” Preston declined to comment for this story.

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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. This browser attack chain, popular in 2016, is no longer possible. System administrators that take care of physical networks are no longer needed — with cloud services management being an easy task.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

In July 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published a story identifying a Toronto man as the author of the Orcus RAT , a software product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. This week, Canadian authorities criminally charged him with orchestrating an international malware scheme.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

2011 said he was a system administrator and C++ coder. “Installing SpyEYE, ZeuS, any DDoS and spam admin panels,” NeroWolfe wrote. NeroWolfe seems to have abandoned all of his forum accounts sometime in 2016. In November 2016, an exploit[.]ru “P.S.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 23, 2019

But the energy sector also underpins our emergency and response systems, our hospitals and healthcare, our schools, our businesses, and virtually everything we do as a society. Disruptions to Ukraine’s power system in 2015 and 2016 were attributed to a cyberattack and led to power outages affecting hundreds of thousands of people.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

New research reveals that websites experience 63 attacks per day , per website on average–this is an upsurge from the reported 22 attacks per day in 2016. Network security is typically managed by a network administrator or system administrator who keeps an eye on unauthorized access, modification, and exploitation to the network.

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