OODA Loop – A new NSFOCUS report indicates that the declining price of cryptocurrencies in 2018 prompted threat actors to stop using botnet resources for cryptomining attacks – as these were getting less and less profitable – and increasingly use them to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks instead.
Overview On April 9, local time, Adobe officially released April security updates which fix multiple vulnerabilities in such products as Adobe Flash Player, Shockwave Player, Dreamweaver, XD CC, InDesign, Experience Manager Forms, and Bridge CC.
1 Vulnerability Overview Recently, Apache released a security advisory, announcing remediation of a privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2019-0211). Apache HTTP Server running MPM event, worker or, prefork could allow a less-privileged child thread or process (including scripts executed by an in-process scripting interpreter) to execute arbitrary code with privileges of the parent process (usually root) by […]
The CyberWire – CISA has issued a joint Homeland Security/FBI Malware Analysis Report on the “HOPLIGHT” Trojan, attributed to North Korea’s Hidden Cobra (a.k.a. the Lazarus Group). – See more at: https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2019/April/CyberWire_2019_04_11.html#.dpuf
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Top 10 countries in attack counts: The above diagram shows the top 10 regions with the most malicious IP addresses from the NSFOCUS IP Reputation databases at April 05, 2019.
Report Finds Correlation Between Cryptocurrency Attacks and DDoS Attacks Over the Course of 2018 SANTA CLARA, Calif., NSFOCUS, a leader in holistic hybrid security solutions, today released its 2018 DDoS Attack Landscape report, which found that there is a direct correlation between cryptocurrency and DDoS attacks. The price of cryptocurrency dropped in 2018, leading to decreased profits from […]
Politico – THE SAUCE ON DDoS — With cryptomining benefits on the decline, cyber attackers were more inclined to employ DDoS attacks in 2018, according to a report out this morning from NSFOCUS. However, the total number of DDoS attacks fell 28 percent from 2017, the company found. Most used DDoS only, but 13 percent […]
Overview Recently, Apache Software Foundation released a security advisory, announcing remediation of a privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2019-0211) in the Apache HTTP Server. Apache HTTP Server running MPM event, worker or prefork could allow an attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system by executing code in less-privileged child processes or threads (including scripts executed by […]
