Three million electric toothbrushes were reportedly used for disruptive DDoS attacks, but cybersecurity experts questioned the claims.
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Hitron DVR Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Exploited by InfectedSlurs Botnet
Akamai flags six zero-day vulnerabilities in Hitron DVRs exploited to ensnare devices in the InfectedSlurs botnet.
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Cloud Server Abuse Leads to Huge Spike in Botnet Scanning
Netscout sees over one million IPs conducting reconnaissance scanning on the web due to increase in use of cheap or free cloud servers.
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CISA Warns of FXC Router, QNAP NVR Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild
CISA released ICS advisories for FXC router and QNAP NRV flaws and added them to its known exploited vulnerabilities catalog.
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Every “Thing” Everywhere All at Once
Every asset in an organization’s inventory that is not accounted for and protected is a potential attack vector that an attacker can use to gain access or move undetected.
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Bad Bots Account for 73% of Internet Traffic: Analysis
The top five categories of Bad Bot attacks are fake account creation, account takeovers, scraping, account management, and in-product abuse.
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US Announces IPStorm Botnet Takedown and Its Creator’s Guilty Plea
US government announces the takedown of the IPStorm proxy service botnet and the guilty plea of its creator, a Russian/Moldovan national.
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MySQL Servers, Docker Hosts Infected With DDoS Malware
Researchers warn attackers are targeting MySQL servers and Docker hosts to plant malware capable of launching distributed DDoS attacks.
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Mozi Botnet Likely Killed by Its Creators
The recent shutdown of the Mozi botnet is believed to have been carried out by its creators, possibly forced by Chinese authorities.
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Mirai Variant IZ1H9 Adds 13 Exploits to Arsenal
A Mirai botnet variant tracked as IZ1H9 has updated its arsenal with 13 exploits targeting various routers, IP cameras, and other IoT devices.
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