Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2022

LockBit ransomware gang claims to have hacked the IT giant Entrust and started leaking the stolen files. The Lockbit ransomware gang claimed to have hacked the company and is threatening to leak the stolen files. Curiously, the LockBit ransomware’s Tor leak sites were unreacheable due to a DDoS attack. Entrust Corp.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2022

Pro-Ukraine hackers are using Docker images to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a dozen Russian and Belarusian websites. The DDoS attacks also targeted three Lithuanian media websites. SecurityAffairs – hacking, domain name system). To nominate, please visit:? Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Recently the leak of a collection of files apparently stolen from the Chinese government hacking contractor, I-Soon, exposed Chinese hacking capabilities. Recently someone has leaked on GitHub [ 1 , 2 ] a collection of files apparently stolen from the Chinese hacking firm, I-Soon.

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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. The botnet supports multiple DDoS attacks, including UDP, HTTP Flood, UDP Plain, and TCP SYN. ” reads the analysis published by Fortinet. ” concludes the analysis.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2022

At this point, it has become cliché to say that nothing in 2022 turned out the way we expected. Similarly, at the beginning of February 2022, we noticed a huge spike in the amount of activity related to Gamaredon C&C servers. Taking sides: professional ransomware groups, hacktivists, and DDoS attacks.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2024

A 26-year-old Finnish man was sentenced to more than six years in prison today after being convicted of hacking into an online psychotherapy clinic, leaking tens of thousands of patient therapy records, and attempting to extort the clinic and patients. After being charged with the attack in October 2022, Kivimäki fled the country.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Fortinet researchers discovered new samples of RapperBot used to build a botnet to launch Distributed DDoS attacks against game servers. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researchers have discovered new samples of the RapperBot malware that are being used to build a DDoS botnet to target game servers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, RapperBot).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Akamai announced to have recently blocked a new record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. On Monday, September 12, 2022, Akamai mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever that hit one of its European customers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, hacking). The malicious traffic peaked at 704.8

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Cybersecurity company Imperva announced to have mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack with a total of over 25.3 Cybersecurity firm Imperva mitigated a DDoS attack with over 25.3 billion requests on June 27, 2022. “On June 27, 2022, Imperva mitigated a single attack with over 25.3 billion requests.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2022

Threat actors compromised WordPress sites to deploy a script that was used to launch DDoS attacks, when they are visited, on Ukrainian websites. MalwareHunterTeam researchers discovered the malicious script on a compromised WordPress site, when the users were visiting the website the script launched a DDoS attack against ten Ukrainian sites.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 29, 2022

What are DDOS attack tools? DDOS attacks are cyber- attacks targeted at rendering certain computers, network systems and servers non-functional. The post 16 Best DDOS Attack Tools in 2022 appeared first on Wallarm. The post Best of 2022: 16 Best DDOS Attack Tools in 2022 appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 11, 2022

On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin approved troops to begin moving into Ukraine-controlled territory. The post IronNet’s March Threat Intelligence Brief 2022 appeared first on Security Boulevard. IronNet is continuously monitoring the Russian-Ukraine conflict and tracking the updates here. .

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The largest and oldest bank in Russia Sberbank faced the record-breaking DDoS attack that reached 1 million RPS. Sberbank , the Russian banking and financial services giant, announced that it was recently hit by a record-breaking distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that reached 1 million RPS.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2022

A massive DDoS attack took down Finnish government websites while Ukrainian President Zelenskyy addressed Finland’s members of parliament (MPs). StandWithUkraine [link] — MFA Finland (@Ulkoministerio) April 8, 2022. link] — Puolustusministeriö (@DefenceFinland) April 8, 2022. SecurityAffairs – hacking, APT28).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Cloudflare mitigated a record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) that reached 71 Million requests per second. Cloudflare announced it has mitigated a record hyper-volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at over 71 million requests per second (RPS). “This was a weekend of record-breaking DDoS attacks.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

A notorious hacker convicted of perpetrating tens of thousands of cybercrimes, Kivimäki had been in hiding since October 2022, when he failed to show up in court and Finland issued an international warrant for his arrest. The DDoS-for-hire service allegedly operated by Kivimäki in 2012. Kivimäki was 15 years old at the time.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2023

DoJ announced the seizure of 13 new domains associated with DDoS-for-hire platforms as part of Operation PowerOFF. Justice Department announced the seizure of 13 domains linked to DDoS-for-hire services as part of a coordinated international law enforcement effort known as Operation PowerOFF. com, ragebooter(.)com, com, downthem(.)org

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2022

The largest HTTPS DDoS attack recently mitigated by Cloudflare was launched by the Mantis botnet. In June 2022, DDoS mitigation firm Cloudflare announced it has mitigated the largest HTTPS DDoS attack that was launched by a botnet they have called Mantis. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Mantis). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2022

A series of DDoS attacks launched by Russian hacktivists are targeting several Romanian government websites. The Romanian national cyber security and incident response team, DNSC, warns of a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeting government websites. The attacks have started on April 29, 2022, at 04:00.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2023

Akamai has mitigated the largest DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack ever, which peaked at 900.1 Akamai reported that on February 23, 2023, at 10:22 UTC, it mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever. The record-breaking DDoS was launched against a Prolexic customer in Asia-Pacific (APAC). gigabits per second.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Cloudflare, a web performance and security company, revealed the news in its latest ‘DDoS Threat Report’ that included insights and trends that are being followed in the distributed denial of service attacks threat landscape in 2022. Russian Killnet Hacking group, funded by the Kremlin, is suspected of the incident.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2023

Polish police, as part of the international law enforcement operation PowerOFF, dismantled a DDoS-for-hire service that has been active since at least 2013. An international operation codenamed PowerOff led to the shutdown of a DDoS-for-hire service that has been active since at least 2013. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Pro-Russia hacker group Killnet launched a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on NATO servers, including the NATO Special Operations Headquarters (NSHQ) website. Pro-Russia hacker group Killnet launched a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on NATO sites, including the NATO Special Operations Headquarters (NSHQ) website.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2022

Ukraine CERT-UA warns of ongoing DDoS attacks targeting pro-Ukraine sites and the government web portal. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Ukraine). The post Ongoing DDoS attacks from compromised sites hit Ukraine appeared first on Security Affairs. ” reads the advisory of the Ukraine CERT-UA. To nominate, please visit:?

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2023

A DDoS botnet dubbed AndoryuBot has been observed exploiting an RCE, tracked as CVE-2023-25717, in Ruckus access points. The activity is associated with a known DDoS botnet tracked as AndoryuBot that first appeared in February 2023. The bot supports multiple DDoS attack techniques and uses SOCKS5 proxies for C2 communications.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2023

Researchers spotted a new botnet dubbed Dark Frost that is used to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the gaming industry. Researchers from Akamai discovered a new botnet called Dark Frost that was employed in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Gbps through a UDP flood attack. We are in the final!

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2022

Cloudflare has mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 15.3 Cloudflare announced to have mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 15.3 million request-per-second (RPS), which is one of the largest HTTPS DDoS attacks blocked by the company.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Known ransomware attacks by gang, August 2022. LockBit has been the most active ransomware threat for all of 2022 and it is impossible to imagine there isn't a team of FBI agents somewhere plotting its demise. Known ransomware attacks by gang, between March 2022 and August 2022. The future of ransomware.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

IT threat evolution in Q1 2022. IT threat evolution in Q1 2022. IT threat evolution in Q1 2022. Subsequently, DDoS attacks hit some government websites. Lapsus$ group hacks Okta. Number of unique domains using the TOP 10 phishing kits, August 2021 — January 2022 ( download ). Non-mobile statistics.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Finally, we will make some forecasts about financial attacks in 2022. If not ransomware, then DDoS or possibly both. Botnet operators use infected devices to carry out DDoS attacks or mine cryptocurrency. Cybercriminals also found a host of new tools for amplifying DDoS attacks. Forecasts for 2022.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2022

Undersecretary for Digital Transformation Luukas Ilves announced that Estonia was hit by the most extensive wave of DDoS attacks it has faced since 2007. The DDoS attacks targeted both public institutions and the private sector. Attempted DDoS attacks targeted both public institutions and the private sector. (1/4)

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2023

“FortiGuard Labs encountered recent samples of a DDoS -as-a-service botnet calling itself Condi. The malware compromises the devices to build a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet. ” reads the report published by Fortinet. ” The CVE-2023-1389 flaw exploited by the bot is a command injection vulnerability.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2022

Upon compromising the IP camera, an attacker can also use the hacked device to access internal networks posing a risk to the infrastructure that use the devices. Since its public disclosure, two exploits for CVE-2021-36260 were publicly released, in October 2021 and in February 2022 respectively. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

Shortly after that, those same servers came under a sustained distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Chaput said whoever was behind the DDoS was definitely not using point-and-click DDoS tools, like a booter or stresser service. In May 2020, Zipper told another Lolzteam member that quot[.]pw pw was their domain.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In the last few days massive DDoS attacks have taken offline numerous websites of Russian government entities, including the Duma and Ministry of Defense. Doemela_X) February 27, 2022. Ukraine pic.twitter.com/BkorZYUW9L — IT Army of Ukraine (@ITarmyUA) February 28, 2022. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Anonymous).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2023

The report covers incidents in aviation, maritime, railway, and road transport industries between January 2021 and October 2022. During the reporting period, ransomware was the most prominent threat against the sector in 2022. The researchers pointed out that the ransomware attacks doubled compared to the previous year.

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