4.4 Satan: Evolving Ransomware In late April 2018, MalwareHunterTeam reported seeing new ransomware that leveraged EternalBlue to propagate. Through analysis, we found that the ransomware was based on a new version (dubbed V2) of Satan, a ransomware family launched in 2017. The ransom demanded in this version increased from 0.1...
Category: DDoS Mitigation
IP Reputation Report-09012019
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Botnet Trend Report-12
4.3 XMRig: Cryptomining For Fun and Profit Cryptomining by botnets has gained popularity in the past two years. Unlike other common malicious activities like DDoS, ransomware attacks, and confidential information theft, cryptomining has some unique characteristics: 1. Predictable earnings. Cryptominers are good at hiding their presence by controlling their CPU...
IP Reputation Report-08252019
Top 10 countries in attack counts: (more…)
Botnet Trend Report-11
4.2.2 Analysis During the first quarter of 2018 when BillGates was extremely active, the family was found to attack 3962 targets, most of which were in two Central American countries. The following map shows the distribution of BillGates targets in China that NSFOCUS was able to directly monitor. BillGates ignored...
What You Should Know About DDoS Incident Response
This document addresses the overall strategy and process for DDoS incident response and provides detailed analysis of and countermeasures against some typical attacks, in a bid to help organizations respond to DDoS attacks more effectively and efficiently. Therefore, we will not dwell upon specific methods of and configurations of specific...
