Tagged: botnets

DDoS attacks in Q4 2021 0

DDoS attacks in Q4 2021

News roundup Q4 2021 saw the appearance of several new DDoS botnets. A zombie network, named Abcbot by researchers, first hit the radar in July, but at the time it was little more than...

DDoS attacks in Q3 2021 0

DDoS attacks in Q3 2021

News overview Q3 2021 brought two new DDoS attack vectors, potentially posing a serious threat, including for major web resources. A team of researchers from the University of Maryland and the University of Colorado...

DDoS attacks in Q2 2021 0

DDoS attacks in Q2 2021

News overview In terms of big news, Q2 2021 was relatively calm, but not completely eventless. For example, April saw the active distribution of a new DDoS botnet called Simps — the name under which it...

DDoS attacks in Q1 2021 0

DDoS attacks in Q1 2021

News overview Q1 2021 saw the appearance of two new botnets. News broke in January of the FreakOut malware, which attacks Linux devices. Cybercriminals exploited several critical vulnerabilities in programs installed on victim devices,...

DDoS attacks in Q4 2020 0

DDoS attacks in Q4 2020

News overview Cybercriminals are constantly on the lookout for means and methods to make attacks more destructive. In Q4 2020, Citrix ADC (application delivery controller) devices became one such tool, when perpetrators abused their DTLS...

The chronicles of Emotet 0

The chronicles of Emotet

More than six years have passed since the banking Trojan Emotet was first detected. During this time it has repeatedly mutated, changed direction, acquired partners, picked up modules, and generally been the cause of...

ddos-attacks-in-q2-2020 0

ddos-attacks-in-q2-2020

News overview Q3 was relatively calm from a DDoS perspective. There were no headline innovations, although cybercriminals did continue to master techniques and develop malware already familiar to us from the last reporting period....