Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2018
Security researchers at FortiGuard Labs have discovered a new DDoS-for-hire service called â0x-booter” built with leaked code that implements an easy to use interface. â0x-booterâ first appeared on October 17, 2018, a post published on Facebook advertises over 500 Gbps of power and 20,000 bots. “During our regular monitoring, the FortiGuard Labs team recently discovered a new platform […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 24, 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. Security experts from Sophos Labs have spotted a new piece of Linux malware tracked as Chalubo (ChaCha-Lua-bot) that is targeting IoT devices in an attempt to recruit them into […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 17, 2018
Oracle has just released a security update to prevent 2.3 million servers running the RPCBIND service from being used in amplified DDoS attacks. The flaw was discovered by the Brazilian researcher Mauricio CorrĂȘa, founder of Brazilian security company XLabs. The exploitation of this vulnerability could cause major problems on the Internet. “A proof of concept […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 07, 2018
UK NCA arrested a member of the Apophis Squad hacker group that launched distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against many organizations, including ProtonMail. The U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA) announced the arrest of the 19-year-old George Duke-Cohan from Hertfordshire that was involved in the ProtonMail DDoS attack. The teenager, aka â7R1D3N7,â âDoubleParallaxâ and âoptcz1,âwas arrested on August 31 and is still in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 31, 2018
Security experts from Kaspersky Lab have spotted a new cryptocurrency miner dubbed PowerGhost that can spread leveraging a fileless infection technique. The PowerGhost miner targets large corporate networks, infecting both workstations and servers, it employing multiple fileless techniques to evade detection. “The malware, which we dubbed PowerGhost, is capable of stealthily establishing itself in a system and spreading […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 28, 2018
A massive DDoS attack hit encrypted email provider ProtonMail, experts believe it was powered by Russian hackers. On Wednesday morning, ProtonMail informed customers that its systems were under attack that was causing a delay in the delivery of the messages. Our network is under attack again. No data is breached or lost, but emails will be […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 18, 2018
A New Mexico man admitted being responsible for DDoS attacks against the websites of former employers, business competitors, and public services. John Kelsey Gammell, 55, from New Mexico has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on dozens of organizations and for firearms-related charges. The man used popular ‘services of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 15, 2018
The Danish state rail operator DSB was hit by a massive DDoS cyber attack that paralyzed some operations, including ticketing systems and the communication infrastructure. The Danish state rail operator DSB was hit by an unprecedented DDoS cyber attack, the attack was confirmed on Monday by the company and reported by The Local media outlet. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 25, 2018
The European police have shut down webstresser.org, the world’s biggest DDoS-for-hire service, that allowed crooks to launch over 4 million attacks. An international operation dubbed conducted by the European law enforcement agencies led by the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) and the Dutch Police, with the help of Europol, has taken down the world’s biggest DDoS-for-hire […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 13, 2018
Security researchers at Akamai have discovered a proxy botnet composed of more than 65,000 routers exposed to the Internet via the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol. Crooks have compromised the devices of this multi-purpose proxy botnet to conduct a wide range of malicious activities, including spamming and phishing, click fraud, account takeover and credit card […]
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