2022
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Google wins lawsuit against alleged Russian botnet herders
Judge tells tale of two men, their lawyer, and a ‘willful campaign… to mislead the court’ A New York judge has issued a default judgment against two Russian…
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Notorious Emotet botnet returns after a few months off
And it’s been sending out hundreds of thousands of malicious emails a day The Emotet malware-delivery botnet is back after a short hiatus, quickly ramping up the number…
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API abuses and attacks create new challenges for retailers
Imperva releases The State of Security Within eCommerce 2022 report, a 12-month analysis by Imperva Threat Research of cybersecurity threats targeting the retail industry. Retail industry cybersecurity threats…
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FBI: Russian hacktivists achieve only ‘limited’ DDoS success
OK, so you’ve got a botnet. That don’t impress me much Pro-Russia hacktivists’ recent spate of network-flooding bot traffic aimed at US critical infrastructure targets, while annoying, have…
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US Treasury thwarts DDoS attack from Russian Killnet group
Yet another pathetic ‘stunt’ from pro-Kremlin criminals The US Treasury Department has thwarted a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that officials attributed to Russian hacktivist group Killnet.…
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High-severity OpenSSL vulnerabilities fixed (CVE-2022-3602, CVE-2022-3786)
Version 3.0.7 of the popular OpenSSL cryptographic library is out, with fixes for CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786, two high-severity buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the punycode decoder that could lead…
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Akamai Prolexic enhancements increase protection against rising DDoS threats
Akamai announced a significant evolution of its DDoS protection platform (Prolexic) with a global rollout of new, fully software-defined scrubbing centers, which will extend its dedicated defense capacity…
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Key observations on DDoS attacks in H1 2022
In the first half of 2022, the amount of DDoS attacks increased by 75.6% compared to the second half of 2021, according to new Nexusguard research revealed in…
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Pro-Putin goons claim responsibility for blowing US airport websites offline
How’s that boot taste? Updated Russian miscreants claimed responsibility for knocking more than a dozen US airports’ websites offline on Monday morning in what appeared to be…
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Criminal multitool LilithBot arrives on malware-as-a-service scene
Bespoke botnet up for grabs from outfit praised for, er, customer service A Russia based threat group that set up a malware distribution shop earlier this year is…