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Record breaking HTTPS DDoS attack

June 15, 2022 admin ampnode.com, cybercrime, downthem.org, https ddos, IoT botnet, reflection amplification attack, tls

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 15:25:28 +0000

The number and power of DDoS attacks keep growing at an incredible rate year over year. Recently a new HTTPS DDoS attack record was broken.

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A week in security (October 1 – 7)

October 8, 2018 admin adobe, Android, anti-swatting, BlockChain, bring your own security, byos, Chrome Extension, Fake Fortnite, Fortnite, hack the marine corps, IoT, IoT botnet, Lojack, national cybersecurity awareness month, ncsam, not botnet, password manager, phishing, phishing campaign, RDP, recap, rip attacks, SC Magazine, Security world, SWATting, Torii, voice phishing, vulnerabilities, Week in security, weekly blog roundup, ZDNet

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2018 16:31:56 +0000

A roundup of the security news from October 1–7 including National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, LoJack, fileless malware, and BYOS.

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Mirai IoT Botnet Co-Authors Plead Guilty

December 13, 2017 admin A Little Sunshine, Akamai, anna-senpai, bitcoin, Breadcrumbs, click fraud, Dalton Norman, Daniel Kaye, exfocus, google, IoT botnet, Josiah White, justice department, Minecraft, Mirai, Ne'er-Do-Well News, OG_Richard_Stallman, ogexfocus, OVH, Paras Jha, Project Shield, Rutgers University DDoS

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 16:23:18 +0000

The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday unsealed the guilty pleas of two men first identified in January 2017 by KrebsOnSecurity as the likely co-authors of Mirai, a malware strain that remotely enslaves so-called “Internet of Things” devices such as security cameras, routers, and digital video recorders for use in large scale attacks designed to knock Web sites and entire networks offline (including multiple major attacks against this site).