Pierluigi Paganini
January 21, 2017
Cisco Security Team has noticed traces of traffic from the dormant Necurs botnet and they are warning of a possible new massive ransomware spam campaign. Security researchers at Cisco Security Team have noticed traces of traffic from the dormant Necurs botnet and they are warning of a possible new massive ransomware spam campaign. “The research […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 28, 2016
Just before Christmas a massive DDoS attack powered by a new botnet dubbed Leet Botnet hit the network of the firm Imperva. Security experts from the firm Imperva observed a massive attack against the company network on the morning of Dec. 21. The massive DDoS attack reached 650 Gbps, according to the researchers it was powered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 04, 2016
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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 27, 2016
The hackers Popopret and BestBuy are offering a DDoS-for-hire service leveraging a Mirai botnet composed of around 400,000 compromised devices. We have written a lot about the Mirai botnet after the clamorous attacks against the Dyn DNS service and the OVH hosting, it is a dangerous threat that was designed to target IoT devices that could be used to power massive DDoS […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2016
The popular security expert Robert Graham, CEO of Errata Security, has explained how the Mirai botnet could hack a security camera in a few seconds. The recent string of attacks powered with the Mirai botnet has demonstrated to the security industry the potential effects of DDoS attacks on the global Internet backbone. Experts who investigated […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 29, 2016
Security researchers have found vulnerabilities in the source code of the Mirai botnet and devised a method to hack back it. The Mirai botnet, this name is familiar to security experts due to the massive DDoS attack that it powered against the Dyn DNS service a few days ago. The Mirai malware was first spotted […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2016
Massive DDoS attacks caused broadband outages to StarHub customers,it is the first time that Singapore has experienced such an attack on its infrastructure. StarHub in Singapore is the latest victim of a massive DDoS attacks powered with compromised IoT devices against its DNS infrastructure. It seems that hackers used kit owned by its customers, the company mitigated […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 24, 2016
The security firm RSA revealed to have discovered in early October, hackers advertising access to a huge IoT botnet on an underground criminal forum. Last week, a massive DDoS attack against the Dyn DNS service, one of the most authoritative domain name system (DNS), caused an extended Internet outage. A large portion of internet users was not able to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 22, 2016
NewWorldHackers & Anonymous powered the massive DDoS attack against the Dyn DNS service that caused a serious Internet outage for many netizens. The cyber attacks against the Dyn DNS service that affected a huge portion of Internet users in the US is monopolizing the media. IT security experts have no doubts, hackers powered the massive DDoS attack […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 22, 2016
A massive DDoS attack targeted the Dyn DNS service and caused an extended Internet outage. How the attackers powered the attack? Yesterday a massive DDoS attack targeted the DNS service of the Dyn company, one of the most authoritative domain name system (DNS) provider, and caused an extended Internet outage. A large portion of Internet users was not able […]
