eSecurity Planet

JULY 7, 2023

Mention the acronym DDoS to a web admin and they’ll likely break out in a cold sweat. DDoS, or Distributed Denial of Service attacks, are some of the most malicious and difficult-to-stop network attacks that can be launched against a website or any other DDoS-susceptible service, such as a SaaS platform.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The attack_init function is also discarded, and the ddos attack function is called directly by the command processing function. ssh/authorized_keys file, the attacker can directly log into the remote server without password authentication. During this process, a number of DNS requests are generated.”

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Webroot

MARCH 9, 2021

Pretending to be someone else, these hackers manipulate their victims into opening doors to systems or unwittingly sharing passwords or banking details. DNS (Domain Name System) is especially vulnerable. However, cybercriminals can also use legal DNS traffic surveillance to their advantage. The post Who’s Hacking You?

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Attack vectors There are two main IoT infection routes: brute-forcing weak passwords and exploiting vulnerabilities in network services. A successful password cracking enables hackers to execute arbitrary commands on a device and inject malware. Unfortunately, users tend to leave these passwords unchanged. Our advantages: 1.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 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. “Recently, a new infection vector that cracks Windows machines through SMB password brute force is on the rise” reads the analysis published by AVAST.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches. 583% increase in Kerberoasting [password hash cracking] attacks. 64% of managers and higher admit to poor password practices.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines. As we’ll see in a moment, Salomon is now behind bars, in part because he helped to rob dozens of small businesses in the United States using some of those same harvested passwords.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

.” The analysis of the bot revealed that it supports seven functions: reverse shell, self-uninstall, gather process’ network information, gather Bot information, execute system commands, run encrypted files specified in URLs, DDoS attack, etc.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The botnet was created to launch DDoS attacks and to insert advertisements in the legitimate HTTP traffic of the victims, most of which are in China (96%). Qihoo 360’s Netlab Cybersecurity researchers discovered a huge botnet, tracked as Pink, that already infected over 1.6 million devices.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2021

The Mozi botnet was spotted by security experts from 360 Netlab, at the time of its discovered it was actively targeting Netgear, D-Link, and Huawei routers by probing for weak Telnet passwords to compromise them. According to the researchers, in the last months of 2019, the botnet was mainly involved in DDoS attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Antivirus Software WiFi 6 Routers Virtual Private Networks Password Managers Email Security Software Web Application Firewall Bot Management Software. DNS leak protection Kill switch No log policy. Password Managers. Users can store, generate, and edit passwords for both online websites and local applications.

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

distributed Denial of service attacks (DDoS). Mirai represents a turning point for DDoS attacks: IoT botnets are the new norm. OVH DDoS attack. At that time, It was propelled in the spotlight when it was used to carry massive DDoS attacks against. Krebs on Security. via massive. Krebs on Security attack. August 2016.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Security experts from Sophos Labs have spotted a new piece of IoT malware tracked as Chalubo that is attempting to recruit devices into a botnet used to launch DDoS attacks. Researchers noticed that the majority of code in bot is new, the authors focused on their own Lua handling for launching DoS attacks with DNS, UDP, and SYN flavours.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2022

An attacker can trigger the flaw by supplying carefully crafted username and/or password as base64 encoded strings inside the fields aa and ab of the login page. Leak of the sensitive data stored on the router (keys, administrative passwords, etc.)

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

DNS filtering. The next technology you need to prevent cyberattacks is a DNS filter. But first, a little bit about what DNS (domain name system) is. Every time a customer types in your web address, their computer makes a request to a DNS server. The DNS server, in turn, tells the computer where to go. says Zamani.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Duke-Cohan sentenced to three years in prison due to false bomb threats and DDoS. Hackers defaced Linux.org with DNS hijack. Which are the worst passwords for 2018? A new Mac malware combines a backdoor and a crypto-miner. Expert devised a new WiFi hack that works on WPA/WPA2. WordPress version 5.0.1 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The Mozi botnet was spotted by security experts from 360 Netlab, at the time of its discovered it was actively targeting Netgear, D-Link, and Huawei routers by probing for weak Telnet passwords to compromise them. According to the researchers, in the last months of 2019, the botnet was mainly involved in DDoS attacks.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

An SSL can secure credit card transactions, usernames and passwords from being stolen by hackers. Her customers can create and log in to their accounts using unique usernames and passwords. Cybercriminals used a DDoS attack to bring down Julia’s website. To prevent a DDoS attack, a web application firewall must be used.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2019

A new DDoS technique abuses HTML5 Hyperlink Audit Ping in massive attacks. Analyzing OilRigs malware that uses DNS Tunneling. Facebook admitted to have stored millions of Instagram users passwords in plaintext. Romanian duo convicted of fraud Scheme infecting 400,000 computers. Whatsapp, Instagram, Facebook down worldwide.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

DNS attacks : DNS cache poisoning, or hijacking, redirects a legitimate site’s DNS address and takes users to a malicious site when they attempt to navigate to that webpage. DoS and DDoS attacks DDoS attacks can make your public-facing applications and websites inaccessible, causing massive revenue loss.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 14, 2023

Malicious bots can be used to carry out a range of cyber threats like account takeovers and DDoS attacks, so bot protection is an increasingly important defense for web-facing assets. Bot protection products can also help prevent DDoS attacks. Limited customization options for smaller businesses.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Some of the most common attacks cybercriminals use to breach higher education institutions are hacking, malware and DDoS attacks. The cybercriminal behind the attack compromised the students’ usernames and passwords , which were used to access the school’s network. Protect Your Campus from DDoS Attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Server: Provides powerful computing and storage in local, cloud, and data center networks to run services (Active Directory, DNS, email, databases, apps). These controls include: Active Directory (AD): Manages users, groups, and passwords as a fundamental access control for an organization and the basis for most other security tools.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Organizations can help prevent their computers from becoming part of a botnet by installing anti-malware software, using firewalls , keeping software up-to-date, and forcing users to use strong passwords. Always change the default passwords for any IoT devices you install before extended use. Examples of Botnet Malware Attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 8, 2021

Leaving default keys and passwords as is. Further Reading: DDoS and SQL Injection Prevention and More. Here are some of the most popular: How to Prevent DDoS Attacks and Tips for Fighting DDoS Attacks. How to Prevent DNS Attacks. Running unwanted services on the system. How To Prevent Security Misconfigurations.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Policies typically will be written documents that detail the requirements that will be enforced, such as password complexity. Minimum User Access Controls Active Directory: The smallest organizations might only worry about device access, otherwise known as the login credentials (username/password).

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

These types of vulnerabilities are frequently used to launch other attacks, such as DDoS and cross-site scripting attacks. Change user passwords to hijack accounts. A CSRF attack was recently used to seize all control of a Brazilian bank’s DNS settings for over five hours. Transfer funds from one account to another.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

In this simple environment network security followed a simple protocol: Authenticate the user : using a computer login (username + password) Check the user’s permissions: using Active Directory or a similar Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Enable communication with authorized network resources (servers, printers, etc.)

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

Subsequently, DDoS attacks hit several government websites. In July 2021, we reported the previously unknown Tomiris Golang backdoor , deployed against government organizations within a CIS country through DNS hijacking. We exposed similarities between DarkHalo’s SunShuttle backdoor and the Tomiris implant.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Q4 2021 saw the appearance of several new DDoS botnets. A zombie network, named Abcbot by researchers, first hit the radar in July, but at the time it was little more than a simple scanner attacking Linux systems by brute-forcing weak passwords and exploiting known vulnerabilities. In some cases, DNS amplification was also used.

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Digital Shadows

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The actor leveraged a malicious website that impersonated CloudFlare, a widely used distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection platform, to enhance the attack’s credibility. Disabling Password Saving in Browsers: Implement strict network policies or Group Policy Objects (GPOs) to prevent web browsers from saving passwords.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 24, 2023

A cloud workload protection platform (CWPP) shields cloud workloads from a range of threats like malware, ransomware, DDoS attacks, cloud misconfigurations, insider threats, and data breaches. Data is collected in near real time, which allows GuardDuty to detect threats quickly.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

Yet the list of features and plugins advertised for this RAT includes functionality that goes significantly beyond what one might see in a traditional remote administration tool, such as DDoS-for-hire capabilities, and the ability to disable the light indicator on webcams so as not to alert the target that the RAT is active. “It

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

In June, more than six months after DarkHalo had gone dark, we observed the DNS hijacking of multiple government zones of a CIS member state that allowed the attacker to redirect traffic from government mail servers to computers under their control – probably achieved by obtaining credentials to the control panel of the victims’ registrar.

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Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

Hundreds of millions of user passwords left exposed to Facebook employees: News recently broke that Facebook left the passwords of between 200 million and 600 million users unencrypted and available to the company’s 20,000 employees going back as far as 2012.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Kevin Holvoet of the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB) said Russian-sponsored attacks in recent months against Ukraine and other targets have included: DDoS attacks on government, military, finance and communications. “Many logs age like milk,” he said, adding, “looking at you DNS logs.”

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The former threatened files accessible from the internet over SMB protocol and protected by a weak account password. Most of the network threats detected in Q3 2022 were again attacks associated with brute-forcing passwords for Microsoft SQL Server, RDP, and other services. Attacks via web resources.

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