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). RPS, which is 2.7

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Q3 2021 brought two new DDoS attack vectors, potentially posing a serious threat, including for major web resources. ris , a new botnet capable of carrying out powerful DDoS attacks. For instance, a DDoS attack on a Cloudflare customer (attributed to M?ris) We won't let our #DDoS stop us doing what we love!

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In this 2019 post from Cracked, a forum moderator told the author of the post (Buddie) that the owner of the RDP service was the founder of Nulled, a.k.a. to , and vDOS , a DDoS-for-hire service that was shut down in 2016 after its founders were arrested. “Finndev.” ” Image: Ke-la.com. lol and nulled[.]it.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Dutch police warn customers of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) website of stopping using the service to avoid prosecution. Dutch police warn customers of a booter service, abused to carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, of to stop using it to avoid prosecution. by carrying out DDoS attacks on March 19.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 30, 2021

Is your organization prepared to mitigate Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against mission-critical cloud-based applications? A DDoS attack is a cyber attack that uses bots to flood the targeted server or application with junk traffic, exhausting its resources and disrupting service for real human users. Source: Testbytes.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Anonymous Sudan launched a DDoS attack against Telegram after the company suspended the account of the group. The hacker collective Anonymous Sudan (aka Storm-1359) has launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Telegram in retaliation for the suspension of their primary account.

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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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Krebs on Security

MAY 28, 2020

The United Kingdom’s anti-cybercrime agency is running online ads aimed at young people who search the Web for services that enable computer crimes, specifically trojan horse programs and DDoS-for-hire services. Source: Booting the Booters, 2019. “This is all about showing people there are other paths they can take.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2020

The FBI issued an alert last week warning about the discovery of new network protocols that have been exploited to launch large-scale DDoS attacks. The Federal Bureau of Investigation sent an alert last week warning about large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that abused new network protocols. continues the report.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2020

The dark web marketplace Empire Market has been down for at least 3 days, two of the possible reasons, an exit scam or a prolonged DDoS attack. The popular dark web site Empire Market has been down for at least 60 hours, it hasn’t been down for so long since 2019. DDoS attack or exit scam? " Wait… "maybe"!? .

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2019

The flaw exploited in the attacks, tracked as CVE-2019-3396 , is a server-side template injection vulnerability that resides in the Widget Connector macro in Confluence Server. Threat actors leverage the vulnerability to install denial of service (DDoS) malware and crypto-currency miners, and to remotely execute code.

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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. Netis WF2419: CVE-2019-19356 , a Remote Code Execution (RCE) issue through the tracert diagnostic tool because caused by the lack of user input sanitizing.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 27, 2025

Tamoian, a native Russian who left the country in 2019, is the founder of the cyber investigation platform malfors.com. .” The results of a search at DuckDuckGo on Mar. 27, 2025 for “Freedom of Russia legion” shows the first result returned is a phishing domain. world and rusvolcorps[.]ru

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Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Most of the targets in 2019 were in the gaming and gambling industries, says security company Imperva.

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Dark Reading

MAY 1, 2019

Analysis of two high-volume DDoS attacks show they're becoming more difficult to remediate with changes to port and address strategies.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 18, 2022

China has emerged as a top nation to host the highest number of Distributed Denial of Service (DDos) attacks in recent past and is also a leading nation to launch modern cyber warfare. Interestingly, US stood at the second position in the list of nations hosting DdoS attacks.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. Image: SentinelOne.com.

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Dark Reading

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The number of DDoS attacks affecting educational resources was far higher between February and June 2020 compared with 2019.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2018

2018 was the year of the Internet of Things (IoT), massive attacks and various botnets hit smart devices, These are 5 IoT Security Predictions for 2019. 2019 will continue these trends but at a faster pace. Upcoming government standardization efforts will continue to increase substantially in 2019. About the author: Matt Burke.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

million servers running the RPCBIND service from being used in amplified DDoS attacks. The data showed that a DDoS attack was in progress, coming from port 111 of several servers, all from other countries. It was on Tuesday, October 16, 2019 at 5:00 p.m., Securi ty Affairs – Oracle, DDoS). Brasília time, 1:00 p.m.

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Peer-to-peer botnets, TCP reflection attacks, and increased activity on Sundays are three DDoS attack trends from last quarter.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In a matter of minutes, a distributed denial-of-service — or DDoS — attack can bring your website traffic to a grinding halt. DDoS attacks are growing in both size and frequency. Major attacks saw a 967% increase between the first quarter of 2018 and the first quarter of 2019. Why Is a DDoS Attack Destructive?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Researchers from Radware reported that massive TCP SYN-ACK DDoS reflection attacks hit Amazon, SoftLayer and telecom infrastructure in the last month. Researchers from Radware are warning of a wave of TCP SYN-ACK DDoS reflection attacks that in the last 30 days hit Amazon, SoftLayer and telecom infrastructure. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

biz which explain in intricate detail flaws found in high-profile malware tools whose authors have used his service in the past, including; the Black Energy DDoS bot administration panel; malware loading panels tied to the Smoke and Andromeda bot loaders; the RMS and Spyadmin trojans; and a popular loan scan script. ESTRANGED BEDFELLOWS.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 15, 2021

And even a record-breaking year in Distributed Denial of Service ( DDoS ) attacks might have been expected as it follows the upward trend over the years. But the sheer number of attacks, their size, and a new big player in the field of DDoS extortion may raise some surprised eyebrows. The records. New methods. Lazarus Bear Armada.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2024

Kivimäki initially gained notoriety as a self-professed member of the Lizard Squad , a mainly low-skilled hacker group that specialized in DDoS attacks. Investigators later found Vastaamo had originally been hacked in 2018 and again in 2019, but that Tapio never told anyone about the intrusions until ransom_man began his extortion spree.

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Threatpost

DECEMBER 23, 2019

From more widescale, powerful distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, to privacy issues in children's connected toys, here are the top IoT disasters in 2019.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

L inear eMerge E3 smart building access systems designed by N ortek Security & Control (NSC) are affected by a severe vulnerability (CVE-2019-7256) that has yet to be fixed and attackers are actively scanning the internet for vulnerable devices. CVE-2019-7256 is actively being exploited by DDoS botnet operators.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 30, 2020

According to Bloomberg Law, the test was the subject of a DDoS attack. The orchestrators are using NetWalker, a form of ransomware that emerged in 2019 and is designed specifically to target larger networks, like those for companies and organizations.".

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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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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Vaughn is alleged to have been a key member of the Apophis Squad , a gang of ne’er-do-wells who made bomb threats against thousands of schools and launched distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Web sites — including KrebsOnSecurity on multiple occasions. The DDoS-for-hire service run by Apophis Squad listed their members.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

DDoS attacks of all sorts were up by triple-digit percentages, with smaller volume attacks growing most rapidly.

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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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Dark Reading

JUNE 30, 2020

The shift to remote work and heavy reliance on online services has driven an increase in attacks intended to overwhelm ISPs.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2024

The China-linked threat actors Muddling Meerkat are manipulating DNS to probe networks globally since 2019. Infoblox researchers observed China-linked threat actors Muddling Meerkat using sophisticated DNS activities since 2019 to bypass traditional security measures and probe networks worldwide.

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