Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

An investigation into the history of these communities shows their apparent co-founders quite openly operate an Internet service provider and a pair of e-commerce platforms catering to buyers and sellers on both forums. to , and vDOS , a DDoS-for-hire service that was shut down in 2016 after its founders were arrested. “Finndev.”

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

One of many tweets from the attention-starved Apophis Squad, which launched multiple DDoS attacks against KrebsOnsecurity and Protonmail over the past few months. ” The DDoS-for-hire service run by Apophis Squad listed their members. Duke-Cohan — a.k.a.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 14, 2022

A 33-year-old Illinois man was sentenced to two years in prison today following his conviction last year for operating services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against hundreds of thousands of Internet users and websites. The user interface for Downthem[.]org. Charles, Ill.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 20, 2021

On the Cloudflare blog , the American web infrastructure behemoth that provides content delivery network (CDN) and DDoS mitigation services reports that it detected and mitigated a 17.2 million request-per-second (rps) DDoS attack. The target of this enormous DDoS attack was a customer of Cloudflare in the financial sector.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Q4 2021 saw the appearance of several new DDoS botnets. In October, the botnet was upgraded with DDoS functionality. This is further evidence that the same botnets are often used for mining and DDoS. Once on the device, Moobot waits for a command from the C2 server before launching a DDoS attack.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In December, Canada’s Laurentian University reported a DDoS attack. Educational institutions are recommended to use anti-DDoS solutions and strong firewall settings, and partner up with ISPs. In early October, a DDoS attack was reported by the PUBG Mobile team. But it dealt with the problem in a matter of minutes.

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SecureList

AUGUST 3, 2022

Politically-motivated cyberattacks dominated the DDoS landscape in the second quarter of 2022 just as they did in the previous reporting period. The pro-Russian hacktivists Killnet, which first surfaced in January 2022, claimed responsibility for DDoS attacks on the websites of various European organizations from April through June.

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SecureList

MAY 10, 2021

Botnet operators use infected devices to carry out DDoS attacks or mine cryptocurrency. In Q1 2021, cybercriminals also found a host of new tools for amplifying DDoS attacks. RDP servers listening on UDP port 3389 were used to amplify DDoS attacks. The vendor released a patch when they learned about the problem.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2021

For example, April saw the active distribution of a new DDoS botnet called Simps — the name under which it introduced itself to owners of infected devices. The malware creators promoted their brainchild on a specially set-up YouTube channel and Discord server, where they discussed DDoS attacks.

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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

MAY 22, 2023

Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. Chaput said that at one point last week the volume of bot accounts being registered for the crypto spam campaign started overwhelming the servers that handle new signups at Mastodon.social.

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IT Security Guru

JANUARY 3, 2024

Swarming or DDoS attacks pose a threat to streamers. Multiple devices flooding your internet connection with traffic can cause slowdowns or crashes. A reliable VPN provider always maintains a DDoS-protected server. link] What’s a DDoS attack? Cybercriminals utilize botnets to launch DDoS attacks.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In Q3 2022, DDoS attacks were, more often than not, it seemed, politically motivated. As before, most news was focused on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, but other high-profile events also affected the DDoS landscape this quarter. The attackers stated on Telegram that they were “testing a new DDoS method.”

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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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SecureList

APRIL 25, 2022

The DDoS landscape in Q1 2022 was shaped by the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine: a significant part of all DDoS-related news concerned these countries. In mid-January, the website of Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko was hit by a DDoS attack, and the websites of a number of Ukrainian ministries were defaced. News overview.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Malware is one of the biggest threats businesses face, and with nearly a third of all malware coming through the internet and email, businesses and consumers alike need ways to protect themselves. This guide covers the major categories of internet security suites and includes a few of the top options for each. Antivirus Software.

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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. For example, search in Google for the terms “booter” or “stresser” from a U.K. FLATTENING THE CURVE.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2025

” The botnet size enables diverse attacks, from DDoS to phishing, spreading malware via SOCKS proxies, and amplifying C2 operations while masking attackers’ identities. “This DNS misconfiguration could have been done by accident, or as a malicious modification by a threat actor with access to the domains registrar account.

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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. Once the circumstances became clear, the admin assumed that THEORETICALLY, all the forum’s accounts could have been compromised (the probability is low, but it is there).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 12, 2023

StormWall , a premier cybersecurity firm specializing in the defense of websites, networks, and online services from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, has published an in-depth report on the DDoS landscape during the first quarter of 2023. of DDoS attacks targeting the application layer (L7), 11.7% in Q1 2022 to 6.4%

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

Timetv.live is the latest Azeri news site targeted by Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks launched by Sandman threat actor, the attack took place on March 21, 2020. Just like many other DDoS attacks we have seen in the past against Azeri media, the attacker monitors the success of the floods using the HostTracker service.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

A Pennsylvania man who operated one of the Internet’s longest-running online attack-for-hire or “booter” services was sentenced to five years probation today. While getting busted on account of ordering a pizza online might sound like a bone-headed or rookie mistake for a cybercriminal, it is hardly unprecedented.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A financial cybercrime group calling itself the Disneyland Team has been making liberal use of visually confusing phishing domains that spoof popular bank brands using Punycode , an Internet standard that allows web browsers to render domain names with non-Latin alphabets like Cyrillic.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

DDoS and Web Application Attacks Retailers also face threats to their infrastructure - websites and apps - that could disrupt their business operations, leading to loss of sales and customer trust. The 2024 Imperva DDoS Threat Landscape Report shows that the first half of this year saw 111% more DDoS attacks than the same period in 2023.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2024

The Mexican Drug Cartels Want You Casio: Notice of Partial Service Outage and Information Leak Caused by Ransomware Attack He founded a “startup” to access sanctioned Russian websites: the cyber police of Khmelnytskyi region exposed the hacker Hacked ‘AI Girlfriend’ Data Shows Prompts Describing Child Sexual Abuse Malware Over 300,000!

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

Other Privnote phishing domains that also phoned home to the same Internet address as pirwnote[.]com com is currently selling security cameras made by the Chinese manufacturer Hikvision , via an Internet address based in Hong Kong. Searching DomainTools for domains that include both of these terms reveals pirwnote[.]com.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The Internet of Things is the now-accepted term to describe countless home products that connect to the internet so that they can be controlled and monitored from a mobile app or from a web browser on your computer. In February, a Swiss newspaper article included an anecdote about a Distributed Denial-of-Service attack, or DDoS attack.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, in 2010 Spamdot and its spam affiliate program Spamit were hacked, and its user database shows Sal and Icamis often accessed the forum from the same Internet address — usually from Cherepovets , an industrial town situated approximately 230 miles north of Moscow. bank accounts. w s, icamis[.]ru ru , and icamis[.]biz.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 18, 2022

He just wants the networking firm to come clean by deleting 20% of BOT accounts it owns and uses for marketing practices. It means in simple words that Musk, who owns Starlink Satellite Internet services, has to pay the said amount if he cannot pay the firm the promised amount or backs out of the transaction for any reason.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 29, 2022

NetBlocks is a global Internet monitor based in London. It uses “diffscans”, which map the IP address space of a country in real time, and show Internet connectivity levels and corresponding outages. A tried and tested method to disrupt communications is to overload the network(s) with a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.

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Bleeping Computer

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The Robin Banks phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform is back in action with infrastructure hosted by a Russian internet company that offers protection against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. [.].

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2023

A flaw in the Service Location Protocol (SLP), tracked as CVE-2023-29552, can allow to carry out powerful DDoS attacks. impacting the Service Location Protocol ( SLP ) can be exploited by threat actors to conduct powerful volumetric DDoS attacks. A high-severity security vulnerability (CVE-2023-29552, CVSS score: 8.6)

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Today, EDR is relied upon to detect and respond to phishing, account takeovers, BEC attacks, business logic hacks, ransomware campaigns and DDoS bombardments across an organization’s environment. Hand: In any significantly complex system, there will inevitably be edge and corner cases that we just can’t account for.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

If you have doubts, check it out–go directly to your account or to the source, which you should always independently verify, if the communication refers to anything service or finance related. You go online and you can’t access your cloud account, or you can’t find data stored on a device or in a specific service.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

According to Constella, this email address was used in 2010 to register an account for a Dmitry Yurievich Khoroshev from Voronezh, Russia at the hosting provider firstvds.ru. “Installing SpyEYE, ZeuS, any DDoS and spam admin panels,” NeroWolfe wrote. DomainTools reports that stairwell.ru Image: Shutterstock. “P.S.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 16, 2024

To make matters worse, geopolitical tensions are driving a dramatic increase in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. In its 2024 DDoS Threat Landscape Report , Imperva revealed a 111% increase in the attacks it mitigated from H1 2023 to 2024. The modern internet's interconnected nature also threatens data security.

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