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Oh cool, tech service prices are plummeting. And by tech services, we mean botnet rentals and stolen credit cards
Supply and demand in action Crime has never been cheaper to pull off, so long as you’re not particular about quality.…
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What’s trending on the underground market?
Trust has eroded among criminal interactions, causing a switch to e-commerce platforms and communication using Discord, which both increase user anonymization, Trend Micro reveals. Popular underground goods and…
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NXNSAttack technique can be abused for large-scale DDoS attacks
New vulnerability in DNS server software can be leveraged for DDoS attacks with an 1620x amplification factor. A team of academics from Israel has disclosed today details about…
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Are you Ready for These 26 Different Types of DDoS Attacks?
The scourge of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has been a major concern for businesses and governments for more than two decades. First reported in 1996, this is a…
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Client-side web security
To address attacks such as XSS, Magecart and other card skimming exploits found in modern eCommerce environments, the use of client-side web security methods is beginning to emerge…
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DDoS in the Time of COVID-19: Attacks and Raids
There is no escaping it. COVID-19 is dominating headlines and has impacted virtually every corner of the world. Like most people at this point, I’m 30 days into…
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Average bandwidth of DDoS attacks increasing, APIs and applications under attack
The volume and complexity of attacks continued to grow in the first quarter of 2020, according to Link11. There has been an increasing number of high-volume attacks in…
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You’re a botnet, you;ve got a zero-day, so where do you go? After fiber, because that’s where the bandwidth is
Two-step attack seen on core systems Researchers are warning owners of fiber routers to keep a close eye on their gear and check for firmware updates following the…
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Dutch Police Shut Down 15 DDoS-for-Hire Services
Dutch law enforcement has shut down 15 DDoS-for-hire services that were used to run cyberattacks aimed at knocking websites and networks offline. Although they did not reveal the…
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Are your MS SQL servers part of a cryptomining botnet? Check now!
For the last two years or so, attackers have been infecting and reinfecting poorly secured MS SQL servers, booting other criminals’ malware from them and exploiting their compute…