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Here’s how anyone with $20 can hire an IoT botnet to blast out a week-long DDoS attack

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 27, 2018

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks continue to erupt all across the Internet showing not the faintest hint of leveling off, much less declining, any time soon. Related video: How DDoS attacks leverage the Internet’s DNA. DDoS attacks are evolving to become more diverse. GitHub’s logo. But that’s not all.

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Webroot

MARCH 9, 2021

DNS (Domain Name System) is especially vulnerable. One of the most common methods of infiltration includes internet-based attacks, such as Denial of Service (DoS), Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) and DNS poisoning. However, cybercriminals can also use legal DNS traffic surveillance to their advantage.

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Overview of IoT threats in 2023

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Dark web services: DDoS attacks, botnets, and zero-day IoT vulnerabilities Of all IoT-related services offered on the dark web, DDoS attacks are worth examining first. See translation I’m the world’s best-known DDoS attacker for hire (getting ahead of myself here). Our advantages: 1. Tested, tried.

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Inside Mirai the infamous IoT Botnet: A Retrospective Analysis

Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

distributed Denial of service attacks (DDoS). What’s remarkable about these record-breaking attacks is they were carried out via small, innocuous Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices like home routers, air-quality monitors, and personal surveillance cameras. Mirai represents a turning point for DDoS attacks: IoT botnets are the new norm.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 502 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2024

CISA adds Cleo Harmony, VLTrader, and LexiCom flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog German agency BSI sinkholed a botnet of 30,000 devices infected with BadBox U.S.

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Group-IB presents its annual report on global threats to stability in cyberspace

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The past months have shown that the most dangerous hacks involved DNS hijacking, which helped attackers manipulate DNS records for MITM attacks. If they manage to compromise a telecommunications company, they can then also compromise its customers for surveillance or sabotage purposes.

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Facebook May Have Gotten Hacked, and Maybe It’s Better We Don’t Know

Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

A week after it landed with a curious (and most likely spurious) thud, Zuckerberg’s announcement about a new tack on consumer privacy still has the feel of an unexpected message from some parallel universe where surveillance (commercial and/or spycraft) isn’t the new normal.

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IT threat evolution Q3 2021

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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APT trends report Q1 2022

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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Using CAPTCHA for Compromise: Hackers Flip the Script

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. Initial Infection In October 2024, a retail trade customer encountered a fake CAPTCHA (see Figure 2) hosted at inspyrehomedesign[.]com

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 19, 2021

Source: The Verge) The use of facial recognition for surveillance, or algorithms that manipulate human behaviour, is set to be banned under proposed EU regulations on artificial intelligence. Source: Europol) New information was revealed about how the FBI managed to get into the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone. Source: BBC).

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US authorities track MuddyWater Hacking Group to Iran

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 13, 2022

Supporting the above stated discovery is the latest press statement released by security firm Mandiant that suggests that it has been tracking Seedworm aka MuddyWater since May 2017 and it is into activities such as digital espionage, cyber attacks, Ddos and ransomware spread.

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Here’s how anyone with $20 can hire an IoT botnet to blast out a week-long DDoS attack

Who’s Hacking You?

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IT threat evolution Q3 2021

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Using CAPTCHA for Compromise: Hackers Flip the Script

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US authorities track MuddyWater Hacking Group to Iran

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