Extensive Power Outages in Venezuela and New York Starting from the evening of March 7, 2019, a cyberattack hit Venezuela, leaving most parts of the country, including the capital Caracas, without power for more than 24 hours1. Because of the outage, the subway service in Caracas came to a halt,...
Category: Research & Reports
Annual IoT Security Report 2019-1
Executive Summary With the constant evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT), the security of IoT is becoming an issue that more and more people are concerned about. In 2016, we issued the IoT Security Whitepaper to popularize IoT security for a general audience. In 2018, we released the 2017...
Botnet Trend Report 2019-16
Conclusion Botnets have evolved to use weak passwords, exploits, and phishing emails as major propagation and intrusion means. Dormant attackers that are seeking opportunities to do wrong tend to exploit vulnerabilities during the time between vulnerability disclosure and remediation. Botnet hackers often exploit newly revealed vulnerabilities to infect new targets...
Adobe Releases October’s Security Updates Threat Alert
Overview On October 13, 2020 (local time), Adobe released security updates which address a vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player. For details about the security bulletins and advisories, visit the following link: https://helpx.adobe.com/security.html (more…)
Botnet Trend Report 2019-15
Five Major APT Groups In 2019, NSFOCUS Security Labs tracked and delved into five major APT groups: BITTER, OceanLotus, MuddyWater, APT34, and FIN7. The following sections illustrate the latest developments of these APT groups by explaining how they optimize attack chains, refine attack methods, and sharpen RAT tools. BITTER BITTER...
Analysis of 2020 H1 Botnet and Honeypot-captured Threat Trends-2
Honeypot-captured Threats in 2020 H1 In terms of honeypot-captured threats, in 2020 H1, Internet attack activities mainly consisted of malicious scanning, over 50% of which were attacks on or scanning of port 443. As for exploits, most attacks were directed at Power cameras, Dlink routers, and JBoss servers. Weak password...
