IoT Botnet DDoS Attacks Threaten Global Telecom Networks, Nokia

By Waqas The surge in malicious activity, initially observed during the Russia-Ukraine conflict, has now spread to various regions globally, as revealed in the NOKIA Threat Intelligence Report 2023. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: IoT Botnet DDoS Attacks Threaten Global...

Active Mirai Botnet Variant Exploiting Zyxel Devices for DDoS Attacks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has added a recently patched critical security flaw in Zyxel gear to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2023-28771 CVSS score: 9.8, the issue relates to a command...

Dark Frost Botnet Launches Devastating DDoS Attacks on Gaming Industry

A new botnet called Dark Frost has been observed launching distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks against the gaming industry. "The Dark Frost botnet, modeled after Gafgyt, QBot, Mirai, and other malware strains, has expanded to encompass hundreds of compromised devices," Akamai security...

Actors, Threats and Vulnerabilities 08 to 14 May 2023

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForce Labs recently made several significant discoveries related to cybersecurity threats. Over the past week, identified a total of nine attacks that were executed. Additionally, HiveForce Labs identified four different...

New AndoryuBot Malware Exploits Ruckus Wireless Flaw for DDoS Attacks

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary AndoryuBot targets critical Ruckus Wireless Admin panel vulnerability to infect Wi-Fi access points for use in DDoS attacks, malware supports 12 DDoS attack modes and is marketed through YouTube videos. ...

Why Attackers Target the Government Industry

Key Takeaways: Government sites are full of information attackers want, so it’s crucial to defend them properly. DDoS is an easy tool for attackers to use to disrupt government sites, which can have far-reaching consequences, as we saw early in the Russia-Ukraine war. Remote code execution RCE...

Feds Take Down 13 More DDoS-for-Hire Services

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI this week seized 13 domain names connected to "booter" services that let paying customers launch crippling distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks. Ten of the domains are reincarnations of DDoS-for-hire services the FBI seized in December 2022, when...

New SLP Vulnerability Could Let Attackers Launch 2200x Powerful DDoS Attacks

Details have emerged about a high-severity security vulnerability impacting Service Location Protocol SLP that could be weaponized to launch volumetric denial-of-service attacks against targets. "Attackers exploiting this vulnerability could leverage vulnerable instances to launch massive...

Uncommon infection methods—part 2

Introduction Although ransomware is still a hot topic on which we will keep on publishing, we also investigate and publish about other threats. Recently we explored the topic of infection methods, including malvertising and malicious downloads. In this blog post, we provide excerpts from the rece...

Cacti, Realtek, and IBM Aspera Faspex Vulnerabilities Under Active Exploitation

Critical security flaws in Cacti, Realtek, and IBM Aspera Faspex are being exploited by various threat actors in hacks targeting unpatched systems. This entails the abuse of CVE-2022-46169 CVSS score: 9.8 and CVE-2021-35394 CVSS score: 9.8 to deliver MooBot and ShellBot aka PerlBot, Fortinet...

UK Sets Up Fake Booter Sites To Muddy DDoS Market

The United Kingdoms National Crime Agency NCA has been busy setting up phony DDoS-for-hire websites that seek to collect information on users, remind them that launching DDoS attacks is illegal, and generally increase the level of paranoia for people looking to hire such services. The warning...

New ShellBot DDoS Malware Variants Targeting Poorly Managed Linux Servers

Poorly managed Linux SSH servers are being targeted as part of a new campaign that deploys different variants of a malware called ShellBot. "ShellBot, also known as PerlBot, is a DDoS Bot malware developed in Perl and characteristically uses IRC protocol to communicate with the C&C server," AhnLa...

Threat Actors Using Go-based HinataBot to launch DDoS Attacks

By Deeba Ahmed HinataBot can launch Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks reaching 3.3 TBPS. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Threat Actors Using Go-based HinataBot to launch DDoS Attacks...

KillNet and affiliate hacktivist groups targeting healthcare with DDoS attacks

In the last year, geopolitical tension has led to an uptick of reported cybercrime events fueled by hacktivist groups. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA published an advisory to warn organizations about these attacks and teamed with the FBI on a distributed...

KillNet and affiliate hacktivist groups targeting healthcare with DDoS attacks

In the last year, geopolitical tension has led to an uptick of reported cybercrime events fueled by hacktivist groups. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA published an advisory to warn organizations about these attacks and teamed with the FBI on a distributed...

New GoLang-Based HinataBot Exploiting Router and Server Flaws for DDoS Attacks

A new Golang-based botnet dubbed HinataBot has been observed to leverage known flaws to compromise routers and servers and use them to stage distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks. "The malware binaries appear to have been named by the malware author after a character from the popular anime...

CISA's KEV Catalog Updated with 3 New Flaws Threatening IT Management Systems

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has added three security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilities is below - CVE-2022-35914 CVSS score: 9.8 - Teclib GLPI Remote Code Execution...

Advanced Persistent Threat Groups Behind DDoS Attacks on Danish Hospitals

On Sunday 26 February the websites of several Danish hospitals were taken offline after being hit by Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks claimed by a group calling themselves ‘Anonymous Sudan’. According to reports on Twitter patient care was unaffected by the attacks and the sites were ba...

New Cryptojacking Campaign Leverages Misconfigured Redis Database Servers

Misconfigured Redis database servers are the target of a novel cryptojacking campaign that leverages a legitimate and open source command-line file transfer service to implement its attack. "Underpinning this campaign was the use of transfer.sh," Cado Security said in a report shared with The...

Why Attackers Target the Healthcare Industry

Key Takeaways: Personal health information PHI is an incredibly valuable category of personal data. When compromised and sold on the dark web, this data can be sold for thousands of dollars. Healthcare is a valuable target to attackers, including the group Killnet, which targeted healthcare sites...