Feb 15, 2024 Stefano Silvestri Approfondimenti, Attacchi, Campagne malware, Malware, News, RSS, Scenario 0 Le botnet sono reti di computer infetti controllati da un attaccante, detto “botmaster”. Si formano quando i dispositivi vengono infettati da del malware, spesso attraverso email di phishing o download dannosi. Una volta infetti, i computer diventano dei “bot” controllabili a ..
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reader comments 27 with Miscreants are actively exploiting two new zero-day vulnerabilities to wrangle routers and video recorders into a hostile botnet used in distributed denial-of-service attacks, researchers from networking firm Akamai said Thursday. Both of the vulnerabilities, which were previously unknown to their manufacturers and to the security research community at large, allow for ..
Arkose Labs has analyzed and reported on tens of billions of bot attacks from January through September 2023, collected via the Arkose Labs Global Intelligence Network. Bots are automated processes acting out over the internet. Some perform useful purposes, such as indexing the internet; but the majority are Bad Bots designed for malicious ends. Bad ..
The US government on Tuesday announced the takedown of the IPStorm botnet and the guilty plea of a man who created and operated the cybercrime service. According to the Justice Department, the FBI dismantled the infrastructure associated with the IPStorm malware, as well as the proxy network powered by the IPStorm botnet. The malware was ..
Attackers are targeting MySQL servers and Docker hosts to plant malware capable of launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, according to a warning from researchers at the AhnLab Security Emergency Response Center. According to AhnLab, attacks targeting MySQL on Windows have increased in frequency with vulnerable MySQL servers infected with ‘Ddostf’, a DDoS-capable botnet of Chinese ..
Nov 08, 2023 Marina Londei Approfondimenti, Attacchi, Minacce, RSS 0 Il fenomeno dei bot malevoli non si arresta: secondo la nuova ricerca di Barracuda Networks, fornitore di soluzioni di sicurezza cloud-first, nel primo semestre del 2023 questi bot hanno generato il 30% del traffico totale su internet, col Nord America che ha generato il 72% ..
The recent shutdown of the Mozi botnet is believed to be the work of its operators, who may have been forced to kill their creation by Chinese authorities. This is a theory from cybersecurity firm ESET, whose researchers recently discovered a kill switch suggesting that the takedown was deliberate. Mozi emerged in September 2019 and ..
Ott 31, 2023 Marina Londei Approfondimenti, Attacchi, Campagne malware, In evidenza, RSS 0 Secondo l’ultimo DDoS threat report di Cloudflare, nelle ultime settimane gli attacchi Distributed Denial of Service sono aumentati in maniera significativa. L’indagine, relativa al terzo quarto del 2023, ha evidenziato la presenza di centinaia di attacchi DDoS ipervolumetrici che hanno congestionato le ..
Ott 11, 2023 Marina Londei Attacchi, News, RSS, Vulnerabilità 0 IZ1H9, una campagna DDoS già nota basata sul malware Mirai, ha esteso il suo arsenale di payload per colpire nuovi modelli di router e renderli parte della botnet. Tra le nuove vittime ci sono anche i dispositivi D-Link, i router wireless Netis, i dispositivi Zyxel, ..
A variant of the Mirai botnet has recently updated its arsenal of tools with 13 exploits targeting vulnerabilities in IoT devices from D-Link, TP-Link, Zyxel, and various other manufactures, Fortinet reports. Tracked as IZ1H9 and first discovered in August 2018, this Mirai variant is one of the most active, exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities in IoT devices ..