Mirai
Zxyel Flaw Powers New Mirai IoT Botnet Strain
BrianKrebs | | CVE-2020-9054, Latest Warnings, Mirai, Mukashi, Palo Alto Networks, Time to Patch, ZyXel, ZyXEL Communications Corp.
In February, hardware maker Zyxel fixed a zero-day vulnerability in its routers and VPN firewall products after KrebsOnSecurity told the company the flaw was being abused by attackers to break into devices ...
DDoS Mitigation Firm Founder Admits to DDoS
BrianKrebs | | BackConnect Security LLC, DDoS-for-hire, Free Software Foundation, Mirai, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Richard Stallman, Tucker Preston, U.S. Justice Department, vDos
A Georgia man who co-founded a service designed to protect companies from crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has pleaded to paying a DDoS-for-hire service to launch attacks against others ...
Hold My Beer Mirai – Spinoff Named ‘LiquorBot’ Incorporates Cryptomining
Liviu Arsene | | cryptocurrency miner, cryptomier, iot, iot cryptocurrency miner, iot cryptominer, IoT Research, LiquorBot, Mirai
The Mirai botnet that made headlines in 2016 for taking out infrastructure through large-scale network attacks has become a reference point in the security industry for the damage that large IoT botnets ...
‘Satori’ IoT Botnet Operator Pleads Guilty
BrianKrebs | | Drake, DYN DDoS, FBI, Kenneth Currin Schuchman, Masuta, Mirai, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Nexus, Nexus Zeta, Okiru, Satori botnet, swatting, TalkTalk hack, Vamp
A 21-year-old man from Vancouver, Wash. has pleaded guilty to federal hacking charges tied to his role in operating the "Satori" botnet, a crime machine powered by hacked Internet of Things (IoT) ...
Imperva Blocks Our Largest DDoS L7/Brute Force Attack Ever (Peaking at 292,000 RPS)
Vitaly Simonovich | | account takeover, Application Security, botnet, DDoS attack, DDoS Mitigation, Internet of things, iot, layer 7 attack, Mirai, requests per second
Imagine you’re a developer building a new web application. You’ve followed all of the security best practices, hired a reputable penetration testing company before launch, and gone through extensive bug fixing to ...
Attackers Are Leveraging Automation
Radware | | Attack Types & Vectors, Automation, botnets, Cyber Security, Cyber-attack, cyberattack, Cybersecurity, iot, Malware, Mirai
Cybercriminals are weaponizing automation and machine learning to create increasingly evasive attack vectors, and the internet of things (IoT) has proven to be the catalyst driving this trend. IoT is the birthplace ...
Courts Hand Down Hard Jail Time for DDoS
BrianKrebs | | bbc, Cellcom, Daniel Kaye, ddos, DDoS-for-hire, GovRAT, Haaretz, Lonestar, Martin Gottesfeld, Mirai, National Crime Agency, Ne'er-Do-Well News
Seldom do people responsible for launching crippling cyberattacks face justice, but increasingly courts around the world are making examples of the few who do get busted for such crimes. On Friday, a ...
British Hacker-for-Hire Goes to Prison for Liberian Telecom, Deutsche Telekom Mirai Attack
The British professional hacker behind the 2016 Mirai attack on Lonestar, Liberia’s largest telecom company, was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison, announced the UK National Crime Agency. Daniel ...
USB Threats to Cybersecurity of Industrial Facilities
Industrial facilities cybersecurity is very critical for the national security of every state and comes once more into focus following the recent Honeywell’s Industrial USB Threat Report. With increasing pressure to limit ...
Six ‘Lessons Learned’ For Mitigating DDoS Attacks
Eliyah Havemann | | Allot Secure, ddos, DDoS attacks, DDoS must haves, DDoS Protection, memcash, Mirai, mitigating, Network Security, what to look for in a DDoS solution
The world of DDoS is dynamic and evolving. So, when considering the most important features that a DDoS Mitigation should have, it’s always worth examining them in light of recent trends and ...