About the authors Allan Liska is a Consulting Systems Engineer at FireEye, and Geoffrey Stowe is an Engineering Lead at Palantir Technologies. Inside DNS Security: Defending the Domain Name System DNS security is a topic that rarely comes up, and when it does, it’s usually after an attack or breach disruptive enough to merit a mention in the news. Last year’s DDoS attack against US-based DNS provider Dyn was one of those, but it isn’t … More ?
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Review: DNS Security
Arbor Networks released its 12th Annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report offering direct insights from network and security professionals at global service providers, cloud/hosting and enterprise organizations. The stakes have changed for network and security teams. The threat landscape has been transformed by the emergence of IoT botnets. As IoT devices proliferate across networks, bringing tremendous benefits to businesses and consumers, attackers are able to weaponize them due to inherent security vulnerabilities. The largest DDoS attack … More ?
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Innovation and exploitation fuel DDoS attack landscape
Botnets’ power level over 9,000 thanks to gaping vulnerabilities IoT botnets have transformed the threat landscape, resulting in a big increase in the size of DDoS attacks from 500Gbps in 2015 up to 800Gbps last year.…
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DDoSing has evolved in the vacuum left by IoT’s total absence of security
Necrus botnet wakes up and starts fresh malware-cano Cisco is warning of possible return of a massive ransomware spam campaign after researchers noticed traces of traffic from the hitherto dormant Necrus botnet.…
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Unbreakable Locky ransomware is on the march again
Krebs says he’s fingered author of epic IoT web assault code The author of the massive distributed denial-of-service attack malware Mirai, which ropes infected routers and internet of things devices into remotely controlled armies, is a New Jersey man, according to journo Brian Krebs.…
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Operator of DDoS protection service named as Mirai author
A recent decrease of Locky ransomware infections has been tied with the lack of activity of the Necurs botnet, which is used to deliver the malware directly to potential victims’ email accounts. In fact, most ransomware – and malware in general – is delivered via spam or spoofed emails, but some malware authors also try to make their creation spread by itself. This is the case with the recently discovered Spora ransomware. Spora (meaning “spore” … More ?
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Spora ransomware could become the new Locky
Carbanak: It’s not just a caramel-flavoured choc-trocity. It’s also malware The Carbanak cyber criminal gang is abusing Google’s infrastructure as a conduit for botnet control.…
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‘Beeeellion-dollar’ mastercrooks in hotel, restaurant blitzkrieg
Accelerating cloud adoption is creating increased demand for security application services including WAF, DNSSEC, and DDoS protection, according to F5 Networks. As an increase in application services often requires additional resources, respondents also indicated a shift toward DevOps methodologies to gain operational efficiencies through automation and programmability. This need for scalability replaces speed to market as the prime driver of DevOps adoption. “This past year, not a week went by without some hack or vulnerability … More ?
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How the application landscape is impacting IT organizations
From 5 to 9 December 2016, Europol and law enforcement authorities from Australia, Belgium, France, Hungary, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States carried out a coordinated action targeting users of DDoS tools, leading to 34 arrests and 101 suspects interviewed and cautioned. Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) supported the countries in their efforts to identify suspects in the EU and beyond, mainly young adults under the … More ?
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Law enforcement operation targets users of DDoS tools
Young ‘uns hire tools to hit infrastructure, info systems Law enforcement bods at Europol have arrested 34 users of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) cyber-attack tools and interviewed and cautioned 101 suspects in a global crackdown.…
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DDoS script kiddies are also… actual kiddies, Europol arrests reveal