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Newly Published Exploit Code Used to Spread Mirai Variant

27

Nov

2017

Qihoo 360 Netlab researchers reported on Friday that they are tracking an uptick in botnet activity associated with a variant of Mirai. Targeted are ports 23 and 2323 on internet-connected devices made by ZyXEL Communications that are using default admin/CentryL1nk and admin/QwestM0dem telnet credentials. Read More

Category Malware Vulnerabilities Written by Threatpost 0 Comments

Are massive cyberattacks the new normal?

06

Jul

2017

When domain name system services supplier Dyn got hit with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack last October, waves of traffic overwhelmed the company’s network and disrupted access to the internet for large swathes of the United States and Europe. The Dyn perpetrators had successfully orchestrated one of the biggest-ever DDoS attacks.

Category Cyber-crime Threats & Malware Written by Csoonline 0 Comments

DDOS attacks in Q1 2017

11

May

2017

Thanks to IoT botnets, DDoS attacks have finally turned from something of a novelty into an everyday occurrence. According to the A10 Networks survey, this year the ‘DDoS of Things’ (DoT) has reached critical mass – in each attack, hundreds of thousands of devices connected to the Internet are being leveraged.

Category Malware Network security Written by Securelist 0 Comments

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