Overview Recently, NSFOCUS Security Labs observed a series of phishing activities against European countries. Those activities mainly targeted online gambling platforms as well as active online trading behaviors, aiming to steal transaction credentials of service providers and customers for illegal profits. The in-depth analysis revealed that it was a continuation...
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NSFOCUS Case Study on Protection Against Carpet-Bombing Attacks
Introduction According to the H1 2022 NSFOCUS Global DDoS Attack Landscape report released on 6 Sept 2022, DDoS attacks made a surprising 205% increase compared with the first half of 2021. When it comes to the carpet-bombing attacks prevalent in recent years, more than 100,000 IP addresses on hundreds of...
Microsoft’s September security update for multiple high-risk product vulnerabilities
Overview On September 14, NSFOCUS CERT detected that Microsoft released the September security update patch, which fixed 63 security issues, involving widely used products such as Windows TCP/IP, .NET Framework, Windows Print Spooler Components, and Windows LDAP. Including high-risk vulnerability types such as privilege escalation and remote code execution. Among...
Large-scale DDoS Attacks Target Many Critical Industries as Election Approaches in Brazil
1. Â Background As early as 2016, a report from BitSight, an American cybersecurity ratings company, showed that Brazil is one of the riskiest countries to do business in. According to the cyber threat report released by SonicWALL, Brazil suffered more than 33 million intrusion attempts in 2021, and suffered ransomware...
Investigation Report on New APT Organization MurenShark: Torpedoes Fired to Turkish Navy [2]
Part 1: Investigation Report on New APT Organization MurenShark: Torpedoes Fired to Turkish Navy [1] Characteristics of Attack Tactics Use compromised sites: MurenShark tends to use compromised sites as the file server and the C&C server in the attack process. As shown in the last chapter, the organization used the...
Investigation Report on New APT Organization MurenShark: Torpedoes Fired to Turkish Navy [1]
Overview In 2022 Q2, NSFOCUS Security Labs detected a series of cyberattacks against Turkey. After analysis, the researchers confirmed that this round of attacks originated from Actor210426, a new threat entity identified by NSFOCUS Security Labs in April 2021. Through the clues of behavior pattern, attack method, attack tool, attack...
