Feds Disrupt IoT Botnets Behind Huge DDoS Attacks

The U.S. Justice Department joined authorities in Canada and Germany in dismantling the online infrastructure behind four highly disruptive botnets that compromised more than three million Internet of Things IoT devices, such as routers and web cameras. The feds say the four botnets -- named Aisu...

⚡ Weekly Recap: Zero-Day Exploits, Developer Malware, IoT Botnets, and AI-Powered Scams

What do a source code editor, a smart billboard, and a web server have in common? They've all become launchpads for attacks—because cybercriminals are rethinking what counts as "infrastructure." Instead of chasing high-value targets directly, threat actors are now quietly taking over the...

Port scan attacks: Protecting your business from RDP attacks and Mirai botnets

Compromised IP addresses and domains--otherwise legitimate sites that are exploited by hackers without the owner's knowledge--are frequently utilized to conduct port scanning attacks. Port scanning involves systematically scanning a computer network for open ports, which can then be exploited by...

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...

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...

New Charges, Sentencing in Satori IoT Botnet Conspiracy

The U.S. Justice Department today charged a Canadian and a Northern Ireland man for allegedly conspiring to build botnets that enslaved hundreds of thousands of routers and other Internet of Things IoT devices for use in large-scale distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks. In addition, a...

IoT Security Challenges in a 5G Era: Expert Advice

When it comes to what we can expect with 5G mobile networks, they promise a more IoT friendly ecosystem, with vast improvements over the current capabilities of the 4G. Providing ultra low-latency and exponentially faster throughput along with sensors that will boast a 10-year battery life 5G pav...

Malwarebytes’ 2019 security predictions

Every year, we at Malwarebytes Labs like to stare into our crystal ball and foretell the future of malware. Okay, maybe we don't have a crystal ball, but we do have years and years of experience in observing trends and sensing shifts in patterns. When it comes to security, though, we can only kno...

DDoS Attacks Get Bigger, Smarter and More Diverse

Distributed denial of service attacks, bent on taking websites offline by overwhelming domains or specific application infrastructure with massive traffic flows, continue to pose a major challenge to businesses of all stripes. Being knocked offline impacts revenue, customer service and basic...

Code Used in Zero Day Huawei Router Attack Made Public

Exploit code used in the Mirai malware variant called Satori, which was used to attack hundreds of thousands of Huawei routers over the past several weeks, is now public. Researchers warn the code will quickly become a commodity and be leveraged in DDoS attacks via botnets such as Reaper or...

Trump's Top Cybersecurity Boss Talks Priorities

BOSTON–Citing Mirai and WannaCry as recent examples, Rob Joyce, special assistant to the president and cyber security coordinator for the White House, said the global landscape of cyber threats can’t be ignored and the U.S. needs to sharpen its defenses when it comes to fending off attacks. “If y...

On IoT Botnets, Ransomware, and More

Mike Mimoso, Tom Spring, and Chris Brook recap 2016’s biggest news stories, including the proliferation of IoT botnets, the rise of ransomware, the FBI vs. Apple battle, Yahoo, and a rash of old password breaches. Download: Threatpost2016YearinReview.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Four New Normals for 2017

Let’s not talk about cybersecurity predictions for 2017. Let’s talk instead about new normals, things that have ceased to be novel because, well, they happen all the time and everywhere. Let’s concede that things such as greedy ransomware, imposing IOT botnets, high-profile bug bounties and...

Lawmakers Asking What ISPs Can Do About DDoS Attacks

IoT botnets and DDoS attacks have prominent lawmakers asking government agencies some probing questions about what can be done. Sen. Mark Warner D-VA on Tuesday sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission—as well as the Federal Trade Commission and Homeland Security—querying among othe...

On IoT Botnets, StrongPity, and Nuclear Power Plant 'Disruptions'

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the nuclear power plant ‘disruption,’ the StrongPity APT group, and the proliferation of IoT botnets. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapOctober142016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

IoT Botnets Are The New Normal of DDoS Attacks

If you’ve been on the wrong end of what passes for a modern-day DDoS attack, you’re well familiar with the firepower of the almighty DVR. That’s right, the innocuous set-top box responsible for the posterity of your Game of Thrones seasons 1-6 is behind some of the biggest swarming attacks agains...

Source Code Released for Mirai DDoS Malware

The dangers of haphazardly connecting embedded devices to the Internet have manifested themselves in mammoth distributed denial-of-service attacks, in particular one two weeks ago against security journalist Brian Krebs’ website that peaked at better than 620 Gbps. The situation worsened over the...