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New, pernicious criminal acts – emanating from a hotbed of internet-miscreants resident within crime-ridden Nigeria are attacking unemployment systems in multiple US States. Via Brian Kreb’s tremendous reporti… Continue reading United States Secret Service: New Criminal Nigerian Scam Related To Unemployment In US Due To Pandemic
Unlimited operations typically take advantage of weak cybersecurity at smaller banking institutions and allow hackers to make coordinated runs on ATMs. Continue reading FBI Is Reportedly Warning Banks That Hackers Are Planning to Make A Global Run on ATMs
Researchers are tracking a new variant of the Mirai malware after it launched a 54-hour long DDoS attack against a U.S. college. Continue reading New Mirai Variant Carries Out 54-Hour DDoS Attacks
DVR’s, IP-enabled cameras, home cable equipment and many other IOT connected devices are that latest in potent DDoS tools available to attackers. Continue reading IoT Botnets Are The New Normal of DDoS Attacks
An attacker known as Anna-senpai released source code for the Mirai malware, which was used in a 620 Gbps DDoS attack against Krebs on Security. Continue reading Source Code Released for Mirai DDoS Malware
Now it’s official. The particular website that was hit by a record-breaking distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack that we covered a few days ago was that of white-hat security journalist [Brian Krebs]: Krebs on Security.
During the DDOS attack, his site got 600 Gigabits per second of traffic. It didn’t involve amplification or reflection attacks, but rather a distributed network of zombie domestic appliances: routers, IP webcams, and digital video recorders (DVRs). All they did was create HTTP requests for his site, but there were well in excess of 100,000 of these bots.
In the end, [Krebs’] ISP, Akamai, …read more
Continue reading Distributed Censorship or Extortion? The IoT vs Brian Krebs