Bleeping Computer

JANUARY 15, 2022

The number of malware infections on Linux-based IoT (internet of things) devices rose by 35% in 2021 compared to the previous year's numbers. The principal goal was recruiting devices to be part of DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks. [.].

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2021

A massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack shut down Belgiums’ government websites, internal networks were also impacted. A massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack hit most of the Belgium government ’s IT network, according to the media the attack also knocked offline internal systems. Around 7.30

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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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2021

Web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare announced to have mitigated the largest ever volumetric DDoS attack to date. Cloudflare, the web infrastructure and website security company, announced that it has mitigated the largest ever volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack to date. So peaking at 17.2

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2022

Microsoft in November fended off a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in its Azure cloud that officials said was the largest ever recorded, the latest in a wave of record attacks that washed over the IT industry in the second half of 2021. Also read: How to Stop DDoS Attacks: 6 Tips for Fighting DDoS Attacks.

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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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SecureList

JUNE 8, 2022

A router is a gateway from the internet to a home or office — despite being conceived quite the opposite. During 2020 and 2021, more than 500 router vulnerabilities were found. The nvd.nist.gov website presents different figures, but they too show a significant increase in the number of router vulnerabilities found in 2020 and 2021.

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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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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 14, 2022

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks can cripple an organization, a network, or even an entire country, and they show no sign of slowing down. DDoS attacks may only make up a small percentage of security threats, but their consequences can be devastating. According to Imperva Research Labs, DDoS attacks tend to come in waves.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 7, 2022

A Netscout Systems report concluded that the number of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks launched in the first half of this year exceeded six million. The Netscout report was based on statistics collected from internet service providers (ISPs) around the world.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2021

DirtyMoe is a Windows botnet that is rapidly growing, it passed from 10,000 infected systems in 2020 to more than 100,000 in the first half of 2021. The Windows botnet has been active since late 2017, it was mainly used to mine cryptocurrency, but it was also involved in DDoS attacks in 2018. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The Mirai -based Moobot botnet is rapidly spreading by exploiting a critical command injection flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-36260 , in the webserver of several Hikvision products. The Moobot was first documented by Palo Alto Unit 42 researchers in February 2021, the recent attacks demonstrated that its authors are enhancing their malware.

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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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CSO Magazine

MAY 17, 2022

This is clearly seen in their targeting of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers, as highlighted in NETSCOUT’s 2H 2021 Threat Report. Threat actors are continually innovating and rethinking their attack patterns – as well as who they target with attacks. Why target VoIP providers? The short answer is financial gain.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 4, 2021

In two of the intrusions, the attackers made off with the forums’ user databases, including email and Internet addresses and hashed passwords. 27, 2021, a monitoring system detected unauthorized secure shell access to the server and an attempt to dump network traffic. “Our [bitcoin] wallet has been cracked.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In 2021 we witnessed the continuation of the seismic shift in how people work, a change that started at the beginning of the global pandemic. The acceleration of cloud, mobility, and security initiatives proved to be critical for organizations looking to weather the new threats and disruptions.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2022

Tbps distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack targeting an Azure customer. Microsoft announced that its Azure DDoS protection platform has mitigated a record 3.47 The news of the attack was reported in the “ Azure DDoS Protection —2021 Q3 and Q4 DDoS attack trends.” ” reads the report.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

Chaput said the spammers used more than 1,500 Internet addresses across 400 providers to register new accounts, which then followed popular accounts on Mastodon and sent private mentions to the followers of those accounts. Shortly after that, those same servers came under a sustained distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, February 2021. The sudo vulnerability aka CVE-2001-3156 , seemed to go under the radar after it was announced and patches were released on 26th January 2021. Serious Linux Vulnerability.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 9, 2021

On August 3, 2021 a vulnerability that was discovered by Tenable was made public. The vulnerability is listed as CVE-2021-20090. Under the description of CVE-2021-20090 you will find: “a path traversal vulnerability in the web interfaces of Buffalo WSR-2533DHPL2 firmware version <= 1.02 Router firmware. Mitigation.

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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2022

Cisco Talos researchers have uncovered a malware campaign targeting Ukraine’s IT Army , threat actors are using infostealer malware mimicking a DDoS tool called the “Liberator.” Liberator is advertised as a DDoS tool to launch attacks against “Russian propaganda websites.” 35) on port 6666. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 28, 2022

Akamai, which offers one of the largest Content Delivery Networks in the whole of America, has disclosed that it has blocked the world’s largest DDoS attack that took place in a company operating in Eastern Europe. NOTE – In September 2021, Meris Botnet targeted the Yandex search engine in Russia with 21.8 requests per second.

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

They interact with each other through internet handles, paying for services with cryptocurrency. Hackers who are on the lookout for publicly disclosed vulnerabilities (1-days) in internet facing software, such as VPN appliances or email gateways. REvil operators have demanded the highest ransoms in 2021. Access sellers.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2022

Puerto Rico’s Senate announced that is was it by a cyberattack that shut down its internet provider, phone system and official online page. The Senate of Puerto Rico announced this week that it was hit by a major cyberattack that disabled its internet provider, phone system and official online page.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2022

On December 7, 2021, Google announced it was suing two Russian men allegedly responsible for operating the Glupteba botnet, a global malware menace that has infected millions of computers over the past decade. But on Dec. PPI programs) to generate new installations of their malware.”

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

AT&T is working to stop a botnet that has infected at least 5,700 network edge servers inside its networks and appears designed to steal sensitive information and launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Also read: Top Vulnerability Management Tools for 2021. Also read: DDoS Attacks Skyrocket, Kaspersky Researchers Say.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2021

INTERPOL published the African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2021, a report that analyzes evolution of cybercrime in Africa. A new report published by INTERPOL, titled the African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2021 , sheds the light on cybercrime in Africa. SecurityAffairs – hacking, African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2021).

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

We investigated 200 cases for clients in Russia in 2020, and already over 300 in the first nine months of 2021. Many used browsers that they were accustomed to, not browsers of choice, or default browsers set by organizations, such as the Internet Explorer. Then and now: a comparison of how cybercrime groups looked in 2016 vs 2021.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

. “As part of a detailed study of the cyber threat, a study of the received samples of malicious programs was conducted, the peculiarities of the functioning of the management server infrastructure were established, and more than 2,000 affected computers were identified in the Ukrainian segment of the Internet.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2023

Experts warn of a spike in the attacks that between August and October 2022 attempted to exploit a Realtek Jungle SDK RCE (CVE-2021-35394). Palo Alto Networks researchers reported that between August and October 2022 the number of attacks that attempted to exploit a Realtek Jungle SDK RCE ( CVE-2021-35394 ) (CVSS score 9.8)

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Security services and tools include anti-DDoS , SOCaaS , web application firewalls (WAF), data encryption , and more. Also Read: Best Encryption Software & Tools for 2021. Also Read: Cloud Bucket Vulnerability Management in 2021. MarkLogic calls San Carlos, California home, and celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2021.

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CSO Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Companies that do business on the internet or use network connections in any way, shape, or form are vulnerable to cyberattack. According to the 1H 2021 NETSCOUT Threat Intelligence Report , there were nearly 5.4 million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in the first half of 2021.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2024

“On Wednesday , the Frankfurt am Main Public Prosecutor’s Office – Central Office for Combating Internet Crime ( ZIT ) – and the Federal Criminal Police Office ( BKA ) secured the server infrastructure of the global illegal darknet marketplace “Nemesis Market” located in Germany and Lithuania and thus closed it.”

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 20, 2022

Incidents of malware targeting Linux-based Internet of Things (IoT) devices jumped by more than a third in 2021, with three malware families the primary drivers behind the increase. That echoes similar reports that have shown an increase in DDoS attacks worldwide. Also read: Top 8 DDoS Protection Service Providers for 2022.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Threat actors behind a Mirai botnet starts exploiting a critical Azure OMIGOD vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-38647, a few days after Microsoft disclosed them. Below is the list of the OMIGOD flaws: CVE-2021-38647 – Unauthenticated RCE as root (Severity: 9.8) CVE-2021-38648 – Privilege Escalation vulnerability (Severity: 7.8)

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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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