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The cyber attacks targeting the energy sector in Denmark last year may not have had the involvement of the Russia-linked Sandworm hacking group, new findings from Forescout show. The intrusions, which targeted around 22 Danish energy organizations in May 2023, occurred in two distinct waves, one which exploited a security flaw in Zyxel firewall (CVE-2023-28771) […]
Web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare disclosed this week that it halted a 2.5 Tbps distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack launched by a Mirai botnet. Characterizing it as a “multi-vector attack consisting of UDP and TCP floods,” researcher Omer Yoachimik said the DDoS attack targeted the Minecraft server Wynncraft in Q3 2022. “The entire 2.5 Tbps […]
A variant of the Mirai botnet known as MooBot is co-opting vulnerable D-Link devices into an army of denial-of-service bots by taking advantage of multiple exploits. “If the devices are compromised, they will be fully controlled by attackers, who could utilize those devices to conduct further attacks such as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks,” Palo Alto […]
Kenneth Currin Schuchman, who is also known as Nexus Zeta from Vancouver, Canada, is the creator of deadly Mirai and Qbot-based botnet, has sentenced to 13 months in prison for hiring and promoting the Mirai and Qbot-based DDoS botnets utilized in DDoS attacks against targets from all over the world. Rather than Mirai, Kenneth Currin […]
In exchange for less severe penalties, the three hackers are collaborating with the federal authorities Three young hackers, who had been sentenced last year to help create and spread the well-known Mirai botnet, are now helping the FBI to investigate other “complex” cybercrime cases in exchange for less severe penalties, as reported by specialists in ethical hacking. […]
A new Variant called “OMG” currently evolving to abuse the IoT Devices and turns it into a Proxy server by adding new techniques that will be later used for various Malicious activities. Deep observation reveals that it mainly used to earn more money by compromising many IoT Devices. One of the main ways to earn […]
The US federal authorities detained two hackers who pleaded guilty to computer crime charges for the creation and distribution of the Mirai botnet network that has paralyzed some of the most important and most popular sites in the world with the launch of massive DDoS attacks last year. According to documents released in federal court, […]
Short Bytes: The pace of WannaCry ransomware was slowed down by an accidental kill switch. Now, the notorious hackers are trying to reignite the ransomware. They are trying to do so by DDoSing the kill switch domains using botnets made of Mirai malware. Marcus Hutchins, who discovered kill switch, says that these DDoS attacks don’t seem to […]
Internet-connected devices in your home or office will be vulnerable to botnets and other attacks, if you don’t change the original login credentials. The number of internet-connected devices has risen as the IoT has become a greater presence in homes and workplaces. However, in the rush to get involved in the trend, some device manufacturers […]
Short Bytes: The infamous Mirai botnet malware has finally entered the world of Microsoft Windows. An antivirus firm recently discovered a new variant of Mirai, which is now named Trojan.Mirai.1. The trojan uses Windows devices to increase Mirai’s botnet army by infecting Linux-based IoT devices. Notably, Mirai was the chief player in some of the biggest DDoS […]
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 […]