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. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Researchers from Radware reported that massive TCP SYN-ACK DDoS reflection attacks hit Amazon, SoftLayer and telecom infrastructure in the last month. Researchers from Radware are warning of a wave of TCP SYN-ACK DDoS reflection attacks that in the last 30 days hit Amazon, SoftLayer and telecom infrastructure. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2025

Its primary focus is on defense, technology, and telecommunications sectors in the US and Asia. While UNC3886 previously focused their operations on network edge devices, this activity demonstrated theyre also targeting internal networking infrastructure, such as Internet Service Provider (ISP) routers.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2019

The British hacker Daniel Kaye (29) has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for the 2016 attack that took down telecommunications services in Liberia. An employee of the rival firm Cellcom paid Kaye to carry out a DDoS attack on the Liberian phone and internet provider Lonestar. SecurityAffairs – Liberia, DDoS).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2019

.” Javier Jara, undersecretary of the electronic government department of the telecommunications ministry, confirmed that groups linked to Julian Assange launched “volumetric attacks” that blocked access to the internet.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

. “This service enables an entire suite of activities, including scalable exploitation of bots, vulnerability and exploit management, remote management of C2 infrastructure, file uploads and downloads, remote command execution, and the ability to tailor IoT-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks at-scale.”

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Exposing the Internet of Things (IoT) Universe. Hackers can spread malware via IoT networks, disrupt supply chains in development, and use a fleet of routers as an IoT botnet to launch a DDoS attack. Also Read: Cloudflare Fended Off Mirai Botnet DDoS Attack. NTIA and CISA: Memos from the Feds What is 5G? How is 5G Different?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2020

The experts found 71 malicious Android applications that were connecting to the same C2 server having an IP address linked to the Syrian Telecommunications Establishment (STE). STE was used by the notorious Syria-linked APT group tracked as Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) to host its C2 infrastructure. ” continues the expert.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 14, 2023

The group is notorious for its highly sophisticated and persistent attacks on a diverse range of industries, including state and local governments, telecommunications, and defense. The group has also been implicated in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against U.S. presidential election.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The new “ Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2019/2020 ” report describes attacks on various industries and critical infrastructure facilities, as well as campaigns aimed at destabilization of the Internet in certain countries. Internet destabilization at state level. The telecommunications sector: Are providers ready for 5G?

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

Expanding attack surfaces require additional skills to secure, maintain, and monitor an ever-expanding environment of assets such as mobile, cloud, and the internet of things (IoT). Telecommunications MSSPs such as Verizon satisfy these needs and provide the financial security of a large corporate partner for equally large customers.

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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. Access sellers. Idea #3: Cybercriminals are criminals.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 14, 2020

The adoption of emerging technologies like 5G will fuel the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) that’s often built with only a few security controls and therefore creating a larger attack surface that enterprises have to deal with., Believe it or not, the fifth generation of wireless technology is already here.

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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. Started in 1987, the telecommunications provider has become a multinational technology whale. For customers looking to bundle, Huawei offers vulnerability scanning , WAFs, and advanced DDoS protection.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2021

Larger organizations most targeted by advanced persistent threats (APTs) like enterprises and government agencies, financial services, energy, and telecommunications make up Kaspersky EDR’s clientele. Read our overview and analysis of Akamai’s DDoS Mitigation Solution. Runner up: Trend Micro Vision One.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks cause problems for organizations of all sizes. To fight DDoS attacks, organizations and teams need to implement the three standard phases for any IT threat: preparation, reaction, and recovery. To skip ahead, click on the links: What is a DDoS Attack? Types of DDoS Attacks.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2020

Justice Department today criminally charged a Canadian and a Northern Ireland man for allegedly conspiring to build botnets that enslaved hundreds of thousands of routers and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices for use in large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. telecommunications provider TalkTalk.

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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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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

For many years, Ika held a key position at one of Russia’s largest Internet service providers, and his (mostly glowing) reputation as a reliable provider of web hosting to the Russian cybercrime community gave him an encyclopedic knowledge about nearly every major player in that scene at the time. Shefel was born on May 28, 1986.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2022

According to the same article, another such attack took place in the late 1990s when the American military attacked a Serbian telecommunications network. The Viasat “cyberevent” On the 24 th of February , Europeans who relied on the ViaSat-owned “ KA-SAT ” satellite faced major Internet access disruptions.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Many of these messages were attempts to recruit people who could be hired to deploy a piece of malware that enslaved host machines in an Internet of Things (IoT) botnet. On BreachForums, Kiberphant0m has sold the source code to “ Shi-Bot ,” a custom Linux DDoS botnet based on the Mirai malware. ” On Nov.

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