DDoS Mitigation

Risk Assessment for Industrial Control Systems

February 2, 2021 | NSFOCUS

ICS security professionals should report ICS vulnerabilities to the vendor before attackers discover them and offer the vendor with remediation suggestions, mitigation measures, and security solutions to avoid network attack risks before the vulnerabilities are malicious exploited. Compared with Windows systems, a quite different method is used to assess ICS systems due to their heterogeneity. […]

IoT botnets

Annual IoT Security Report 2019-18

January 29, 2021 | NSFOCUS

Introduction IoT devices are faced with a great security challenge and their security appears particularly important. On one hand, though IoT devices have had a long existence, legacy IoT devices and their application protocols contain a variety of vulnerabilities due to the ill-conceived security design. On the other hand, as noted in the analysis of […]

Considerations for Making ICS Networks Comply with CMMC

January 26, 2021 | NSFOCUS

1. Background In early 2020, the US Department of Defense (DOD) released the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Classification (CMMC). On average, the USA loses USD 600 billion a year to adversaries in the cyberspace. Currently, the DOD has about 300,000 contractors, covering a variety of fields from hypersonic weapons to leather factories. Of all these contractors, […]

Attributed Graph-based Anomaly Detection and Its Application in Cybersecurity

January 26, 2021 | NSFOCUS

1. Background On cyberspace battlefields, adversaries often lurk in the darkness, but will jump at the throat of victims whenever spotting a chance. Today, extensive collection of huge amounts of data from various dimensions is nothing new. This can be very useful for security defenses, but at the same time brings unprecedented challenges to security […]

Non-negligible ICS Security Risks — Device Simulator Security

January 23, 2021 | NSFOCUS

Background To facilitate debugging and analysis by developers, a lot of master computer configuration software often comes with a simulator that simulates a real programmable logic controller (PLC) or human-machine interface (HMI) device. Such simulators exchange data with master computer configuration software through TCP/IP and therefore some will listen on a designated port which is […]

IoT botnets

Annual IoT Security Report 2019-17

January 22, 2021 | NSFOCUS

Malicious Behaviors Targeting UPnP Vulnerabilities We captured four kinds of UPnP exploits 1, as shown in Table 4-7. Apparently, all the exploits targeted remote command execution vulnerabilities. Besides, we found that when a vulnerability is found on a specific port, attackers usually directly hit this port by skipping the UPnP discovery phase.

Watch Out! “Incaseformat” Came Back

January 18, 2021 | NSFOCUS

The outbreak of Incaseformat virus has affected many industries recently. It is critical because it has removed all non-system files and caused serious data loss. This virus appeared before, now it has come back and infected many hosts, especially in China. As of 14 Jan, 2:00 P.M.(GMT+8), NSFOCUS Labs and NSFOCUS Threat Intelligence have detected […]

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Annual IoT Security Report 2019-16

January 15, 2021 | NSFOCUS

The following sections analyze threats from the port mapping service based on UPnP port mapping tables collected from network-wide devices. Overview In the 2018 Annual IoT Security Report , we focused our attention on four types of malicious port mappings that had the most distinctive characteristics and the most extensive impact. Of the four major […]

IoT botnets

Annual IoT Security Report 2019-15

January 8, 2021 | NSFOCUS

In the 2018 Annual IoT Security Report, we analyzed threats against UPnP and you can refer to the report for basics of UPnP. In this report, we updated UPnP-related data and added new findings. Viewpoint 6: Approximately 2.28 million IoT devices around the world had the UPnP/SSDP service (port 1900) publicly accessible and therefore were […]

A Global DTLS Amplification DDoS Attack Is Ongoing

January 1, 2021 | NSFOCUS

Attackers are targeting Citrix ADC (Application Delivery Controller) and utilize it to launch amplification attacks. However, no official patch has been released yet.