IoT Botnets Fuel DDoS Attacks – Are You Prepared?

While data breaches and ransomware are still considered among the more significant concern for businesses, the threats sometimes come from a direction we weren’t expecting. Cybercriminals use botnets for various malicious purposes, most significantly for DDoS attacks against targets. The most...

Vulnerabilities & Threats that Matter 18 – 24th July

Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 497 11 2 Worldwide 6 33 For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary The third week of July 2022 witnessed the discovery of 497 vulnerabilities out of...

The 8220 Cryptomining Gang massively expands Cloud Botnets

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The 8220 gang has significantly expanded their cloud bot armies around the world, targeting AWS, Azure, GCP, Alitun, and QCloud cloud service hosts. The group is being detected using a new version of the IRC...

Record breaking HTTPS DDoS attack

Last week, Cloudflare blocked the largest HTTPS DDoS attack on record. The attack amassed some 26 million requests per second rps. The previous record for a HTTPS DDoS attack was 15.3 million rps. The attack targeted an unnamed Cloudflare customer and originated mostly from Cloud Service Provider...

“Multiple adversaries” exploiting Confluence vulnerability, warns Microsoft

Microsoft has warned that "multiple adversaries and nation-state actors" are making use of the recent Atlassian Confluence RCE vulnerability. A fix is now available for CVE-2022-26134. It is essential users of Confluence address the patching issue immediately. Confluence vulnerability: Background...

Massive increase in XorDDoS Linux malware in last six months

Microsoft says its recorded a massive increase in XorDDoS activity 254 percent in the last six months. XorDDoS, a Linux Trojan known for its modularity and stealth, was first discovered in 2014 by the white hat research group, MalwareMustDie MMD. MMD believed the Linux Trojan originated in China...

Rise in XorDdos: A deeper look at the stealthy DDoS malware targeting Linux devices

In the last six months, we observed a 254% increase in activity from a Linux trojan called XorDdos. First discovered in 2014 by the research group MalwareMustDie, XorDdos was named after its denial-of-service-related activities on Linux endpoints and servers as well as its usage of XOR-based...

Rise in XorDdos: A deeper look at the stealthy DDoS malware targeting Linux devices

In the last six months, we observed a 254% increase in activity from a Linux trojan called XorDdos. First discovered in 2014 by the research group MalwareMustDie, XorDdos was named after its denial-of-service-related activities on Linux endpoints and servers as well as its usage of XOR-based...

Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity

Artificial Intelligence AI and Machine Learning ML are essentials in modern cybersecurity. Both can automated the process of analyzing internet content and categorize it while identifying and mitigating threats such as malware, ransomware, phishing and botnets. AI and ML technologies are constant...

In China and Japan, Malicious Botnets Surge Amidst Holiday Ecommerce Traffic

Akamai data shows that in the days leading up to and including Lunar New Year, the activity of malicious bots increased 15% in China over the previous month. While a similar surge occurs during the high-traffic seen at the end-of-year holidays in EMEA and the U.S. — China and Japan present a...

SafeDNS: Cloud-based Internet Security and Web Filtering Solution for MSPs

Remote workplace trend is getting the upper hand in 2022. A recent survey by IWG the International Workplace Group determined that 70% of the world's professionals work remotely at least one day a week, with 53% based outside their workplace at least half of the week. Taking this into...

DDoS attacks in Q4 2021

News roundup Q4 2021 saw the appearance of several new DDoS botnets. A zombie network, named Abcbot by researchers, first hit the radar in July, but at the time it was little more than a simple scanner attacking Linux systems by brute-forcing weak passwords and exploiting known vulnerabilities. I...

Beware of the Attacks of Zombie Botnet

By Owais Sultan Cyberattacks and security threats can take many forms, but zombie botnets are particularly malicious and can often go… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Beware of the Attacks of Zombie Botnet...

Microsoft Sees Rampant Log4j Exploit Attempts, Testing

No surprise here: The holidays bought no Log4Shell relief. Threat actors vigorously launched exploit attempts and testing during the last weeks of December, Microsoft said on Monday, in the latest update to its landing page and guidance around the flaws in Apache’s Log4j logging library. “We have...

Detecting Evasive Malware on IoT Devices Using Electromagnetic Emanations

Cybersecurity researchers have proposed a novel approach that harnesses electromagnetic field emanations from the Internet of Things IoT devices as a side-channel to glean precise knowledge about the different kinds of malware targeting the embedded systems, even in scenarios where obfuscation...

IoT SAFE — An Innovative Way to Secure IoT

By the end of 2021, there will be 12 billion connected IoT devices, and by 2025, that number will rise to 27 billion. All these devices will be connected to the internet and will send useful data that will make industries, medicine, and cars more intelligent and more efficient. However, will all...

Where the Latest Log4Shell Attacks Are Coming From

Cybersecurity professionals across the world have been scrambling to shore up their systems against a critical remote code-execution RCE flaw CVE-2021-44228 in the Apache Log4j tool, discovered just days ago. Now under active exploit, the “Log4Shell” bug allows complete server takeover. Researche...

Attackers Will Flock to Crypto Wallets, Linux in 2022: Podcast

Ransomware is on the rise, and attackers are massing in never-before-seen numbers, lining up to find victims. Could the new year possibly get any worse? According to FortiGuard Labs, the answer is yes. According to its 2022 predictions, upcoming threats will target an expanding attack surface,...

Digging Deeper – An In-Depth Analysis of a Fast Flux Network

Fast Flux is a DNS technique used by botnets to hide various types of malicious activities, such as phishing, web proxying, malware delivery, and malware communication, behind an ever-changing network of compromised hosts acting as proxies. The Fast Flux network concept was first introduced in...

How to Exploit SQL Server Using Registry Keys

At the Imperva Research Labs we have the chance to scrutinize various security situations. In this blog, we will take a closer look at database security on SQL Server. One routine approach that security practitioners employ to protect databases is deploying honeypots and waiting for bad actors to...