Monthly Archives: November 2023

Leader of pro-Russia DDoS crew Killnet ‘unmasked’ by Russian state media

Also: NXP China attack, Australia can’t deliver on ransom payment ban (yet), and Justin Sun’s very bad month Infosec in Brief Cybercriminals working out of Russia go to great lengths to conceal their real identities, and you won’t ever find the state trying to unmask them either – as long as they keep supplying the attacks on Axis nations. It’s the reason why we found it so amusing that of all the ways the identity of an organized cybercrime gang leader could be revealed, it was Russian state media that may have recently outed someone of note.…

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Leader of pro-Russia DDoS crew Killnet ‘unmasked’ by Russian state media

Mirai we go again: Zero-day flaws see routers and cameras co-opted into botnet

Akamai sounds the alarm – won’t name the vendors yet, but there is a fix coming Akamai has uncovered two zero-day bugs capable of remote code execution, both being exploited to distribute the Mirai malware and built a botnet army for distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.…

Mirai malware infects routers and cameras for new botnet

Akamai sounds the alarm – won’t name the manufacturers yet Akamai has uncovered two zero-day bugs capable of remote code execution, both being exploited to distribute the Mirai malware and built a botnet army for distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.…

Russian national pleads guilty to building now-dismantled IPStorm proxy botnet

23K nodes earned operator more than $500K – and now perhaps jail time The FBI says it has dismantled another botnet after collaring its operator, who admitted hijacking tens of thousands of machines around the world to create his network of obedient nodes.…

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NETSCOUT releases Adaptive DDoS Protection for AED

NETSCOUT launched Adaptive DDoS Protection for Arbor Edge Defense (AED) to protect ISPs and enterprises from DNS water torture attacks. According to the NETSCOUT DDoS Threat Intelligence Report, Domain Name System (DNS) water torture attacks increased 353% in the first six months of 2023, overwhelming Authoritative DNS server resources and bringing down critical DNS services. DNS water torture DDoS attacks have been around since 1997, yet many organizations still struggle to efficiently identify and mitigate … More ? The post NETSCOUT releases Adaptive DDoS Protection for AED appeared first on Help Net Security .

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Mozi botnet murder mystery: China or criminal operators behind the kill switch?

Middle Kingdom or self-immolation – there are a couple of theories The Mozi botnet has all but disappeared according to security folks who first noticed the prolific network’s slowdown and then uncovered a kill switch for the IoT system. But they still have one unanswered question: “Who killed Mozi?”…

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