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New DDoS attacks misuse NetBIOS name server, RPC portmap, and Sentinel licensing servers

29

Oct

2015

Akamai has observed three new reflection DDoS attacks in recent months: NetBIOS name server reflection, RPC portmap reflection, and Sentinel reflection. In a reflection DDoS attack, also called a DrDoS attack, there are three types of participants: the attacker, victim servers that act as unwitting accomplices, and the attacker’s target. The attacker sends a simple […]

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Bitcoin Mining Malware

23

Aug

2011

For those unfamiliar, Bitcoin is a digital P2P currency (here’s a more detailed video explanation if interested) – people interact with it using locally or hosted “wallet” software. It should not come as much of a surprise that malware has been designed to target abuse of this digital currency the same as any other (e.g., […]

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Bitcoin mining with Trojan.Badminer

16

Aug

2011

Bitcoins have been in the news in recent months and there has been much discussion on them, as part of public discourse. In terms of how bitcoins are being targeted by malware, we’ve seen past attempts by Trojan.Cointbitminer to “mine” bitcoins on compromised computers, using up precious CPU cycles in the process. We’ve even seen […]

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