Finding 1: In 2019, over 30 types of IoT vulnerability exploits were captured, most of which targeted remote command execution vulnerabilities. Though hundreds of to thousands of IoT vulnerabilities are unveiled each year, only a few can exert an extensive impact. Attackers were keen on targeting devices (routers and video...
Category: DDoS Mitigation
FBI Warning: New DDoS Reflection Attacks Are Coming, Are You Ready?
According to ZDNet’s reports, FBI released a warning last week that some new network protocols were used by criminals to launch large-scale DDoS attacks. Three protocols and one Web applications were found as DDoS attack vectors, including CoAP, WS-DD, ARMS and Web-based Jenkins. (more…)
2019 Cybersecurity Insights -14
Malware Threats from Mobile Platforms Nowadays, smartphones are ubiquitous. Android, as a widely used mobile operating system, is vulnerable to an increasing large number of malware families owing to its openness and privilege issues. Such malware can even be spread via legal channels, including Google Store. (more…)
Botnet Trend Report -4
In the reconnaissance phase, a bad actor can determine which targets to attack through batch scanning. Such scanning is often focused on user names and passwords for access to and vulnerabilities in devices. Besides, an attacker may try to compromise targets by delivering malicious baits to their email addresses collected...
IP Reputation Report-07262020
1.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 July 26, 2020. (more…)
2019 Cybersecurity Insights -13
Cryptojacking Malware In 2019, the pickup in cryptocurrency prices led to an increase in the number of cryptojacking malware families. Of all these families, Monero mining trojans still took a dominant place. EternalBlue and weak password cracking were the major methods for ransomware families to compromise large enterprises in financial...
