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Short Bytes: Your smart devices aren’t as smart as you think. After Mirai botnet, another similar malware named Rakos is here to compromise your IoT security. Rakos exploits the weak passwords and targets the SSH ports. Only time will tell if Rakos can turn out to be another massive threat like Mirai botnet. In case […]
If you’re the type of person who stays updated on internet security and DDoS attack trends, you probably right skip along without a second thought when the possibility of unwittingly being part of a botnet is raised. After all, if you’re the type of person who stays abreast of these issues, there’s no way your […]
Young hackers are creating quite a lot of trouble for the US cyber security agencies lately. To eradicate the threat, a multinational operation was carried out by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Europol for capturing young, impatient hackers. During the operation, a science student of Indian origin was also arrested. According to reports, the […]
In 2016, there have been a rise in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Internet giants as well as small business. The attack on Dyn DNS that forced Twitter, PayPal, NYT and others to go offline is one good example, thanks to unprotected Internet of Things (IoT) devices and botnets like Mirai and Bashlite. To tackle these growing threats companies are looking for a permanent […]
Security experts from CloudFlare observed a new botnet that emerged in the wild and it could be dangerous as its predecessor Mirai. Which is the most dreaded botnet in the current threat landscape? The Mirai botnet of course, it was used by threat actors in the wild to power massive DDoS attack, such as the […]
A way to relaxed Your Facebook or Gmail accounts From Hackers? Social Media is a tool in each unmarried man or woman’s hand to percentage his/her feeling and idea to the world. but in case your social media account will hacked? Then in which to move? a way to get better that account? And by […]
Mirai botnet has already created enough disruption at high-profile organizations and with its new version, we can expect it to exploit the already vulnerable IoT devices with a lot more zeal and intensity. The new version of Mirai bonnet has already claimed a victim, which is the German Deutsche Telekom. In a statement, the company […]
This is indeed shocking that now malicious cyber-criminals are providing DDoS hire services to fellow hackers and ambitious scammers. Hackers going by the handle of Popopret and BestBuy (the same hacker was also selling Terrorist database on the darknet) are offering a DDoS-for-hire service where they are renting our Mirai botnet comprising of around 400,000 […]
The European Commission servers were forced to go offline for hours on Thursday after suffering a series of large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The Commission confirmed there was no data breach and also claimed that there was no service interruption but one staff member revealed they couldn’t access the Internet for hours after the attack. […]
The Internet of Things has become more of a joke lately because of the never ending styles of exploitation that these poor devices are being subjected to by malicious cybercriminals and hackers. It is now widely believed that the IoT devices are seriously prone to cyber attacks as their various inherent vulnerabilities make them easy […]
It looks like Mirai malware DDoS botnet is here to stay — Hackers are currently using Mirai to shut down the Internet in an African country Liberia. Mirai malware is very dangerous of all the malware currently plaguing the internet because it converts Internet of Things (IoT) devices into botnets and later utilizes them for […]
Short Bytes: Botnet 14, a Mirai botnet, has knocked offline the internet of an entire country. Over the week, Botnet 14 targetted Liberia, a little-known African country, and sent its internet systems offline multiple times. Security researcher Kevin Beaumont, who was one the first people to spot the attack, has said that “these attacks appear to […]
Mirai botnet played a vital role in Dyn DDoS attack – Researchers believe the attack was up to 1.2 Tbps Last week HackRead reported the involvement of Mirai botnet in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Dyn DNS, an Internet performance management company. Now, experts have also revealed that Mirai played a major role during […]
Short Bytes: According to a new report, massive IoT botnets are available for sale on TOR-based underground markets. For $7,500, one can get a botnet of 100,000 hacked devices, which is enough to DDoS any major online website or service. A wide range of IoT devices in these botnets are affeced by Mirai malware. Over […]
If you thought darknet is all about drugs, ransomware or stolen data think again — Hackers are selling DDoS botnet on the darknet which means it’s now a business. Last Friday was a huge setback for various web services including Twitter, Paypal etc. Nevertheless, it has recently been discovered that a group of hackers is […]
The DDoS attack on Dyn’s server was not only massive but highly sophisticated and came from millions of hacked IP addresses. By now you should be aware of what happened with Dyn’s DNS servers two days ago when Internet was almost taken down by a series of massive DDoS attacks. Several IT security companies already discovered Mirai […]
The DDoS attack on Dyn DNS was carried out using Mirai malware botnet — Mirai is a DDoS nightmare turning Internet of things (IoT) into a botnet of things. Yesterday’s DDoS attack on Dyn’s DNS was like an earthquake that was felt worldwide when the top and most visited sites on the Internet went offline for hours. Although […]
Short Bytes: Security researcher MalwareTech has created a live map that shows the attacks of Mirai botnet all around the world. Mirai botnet is responsible for one of the most powerful DDoS attacks ever seen in recent times. In a blog post, the researcher also stresses the need to replace default passwords of IoT devices […]
Thousands of Hacked Cameras, DVRs and IoT devices responsible for Biggest DDoS Attacks till date. Previously we informed you that KrebsOnSecurity, a security news blog, went offline for over a day due to a 665 Gbps distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. This attack is being touted as the biggest and record-breaking attack so far. […]
Everyone want to hack someone’s account to get access to it. Let hack accounts passwords 1.Password hashes: Passwords that we type in your computer operating systems are stored on the disc in the form of hashes. These hashes are not in clear text, to access these hashes root/sysadmin are required. In windows operating system these […]
There’s something fishy about this botnet. Social media and advertising fraud investigations firm Sadbottrue has discovered a botnet of three million Twitter accounts, along with two smaller botnets of 100,000 bots each, which they suspect to be behind online services that sell or rent Twitter followers. Selling Twitter followers is a lucrative business, even if Twitter […]