Overview In the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet activities in 2020 H1, most were from Mirai, Gafgyt, and other major families. In 2020 H1, DDoS attack means were dominated by UDP floods, CC, and TCP floods. In 2020 H1, Hostwinds, Digital Ocean, and OVH were the major hosted cloud service providers...
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Intelligent Threat Analytics: Graph Data Structuring
The artificial intelligence (AI) technology based on deep neural networks has made breakthroughs in a wide range of fields, but only seen limited adoption in cybersecurity. At present, it is impractical to expect a hierarchical neural network to implement threat identification, association, and response from end to end. According to...
Botnet Trend Report 2019-14
New Trends of APT Groups Here are three trends that shaped APT groups in 2019: Firstly, mobile devices became common constituents of the attack surface. In 2019, MuddyWater developed malicious files against Android platforms, heading towards mobile devices. Google's Project Zero team revealed five exploit chains deployed in the wild...
2020 H1 Cybersecurity Trends-1
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Botnet Trend Report 2019-13
Mirai At present, Mirai is among the biggest IoT botnet families which have the most variants and infect the most devices to impose the most extensive impact. In 2019, NSFOCUS Security Labs captured 10,635 Mirai samples in total (excluding the repetitive malware arising from cross compilation), identified 1660 C&C addresses,...
Botnet Trend Report 2019-12
This chapter describes active botnet families under long-term tracking of and other families newly captured by NSFOCUS Security Labs, from the perspectives of their background, activity, and association with other families. Botnet Families GoBrut Malware in the GoBrut family, written in Go, made its debut in early 2019, in a...
