Adware For many years, large grey software supply chains on the Internet have been showing their own prowess for self-promotion. A specific piece of software is often bundled with unnecessary software, even malware, during the download and installation.
According to the analysis of geographic distribution of IPv6 attack sources, China had the largest proportion of attack sources (86.76%), followed by the USA (3.97%) and Romania (0.77%).
Overview In 2019, banking Trojans frequently launched attacks via the multilevel free technology, posing a severe threat to enterprises and public sectors. Spam was still the main propagation method. Attackers collected a great number of email addresses against which they launched phishing attacks. In 2019,NSFOCUS Security Labs captured and tracked such banking Trojans as Emotet, […]
Since the Promoting Scale Deployment of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) (“Plan”) 1 was published in November 2017, IPv6 deployments in China are on the rise. By June 2019, the number of active IPv6 users had reached 130 million, and 1.207 billion telecom users had been assigned an IPv6 address. At the same time, IPv6 […]
At 17:00 of May 20, NSFOCUS SOC detected an abnormal traffic alert in the global monitoring center, the IP addresses of a customer from Hong Kong were under attack and the maximum attack peak reached 634.6 Gbps. This had been the largest of all attacks targeting NSFOCUS’s customers by thetime this report was written. According […]
The first nine months of 2019 saw sharp rise in the market prices of cryptocurrencies dominated by Bitcoin. Despite a fall in the fourth quarter, the prices remained high. Meanwhile, cryptojacking malware became active with the rise of cryptocurrency prices.
From January to May 2020, except in April when the number of DDoS attacks was on a par with that a year earlier, the other months experienced a year-on-year decrease in the number. However, attack traffic in each month in the first half of 2020 increased year on year.
In 2019, ransomware was still a major type of threats that haunted people around the world. As an infamous botnet family, GandCrab generated more than USD 2 billion in ransom payments, simulating the rapid increase of other ransomware.
Threats Against WS-Discovery WSD is a multicast discovery protocol to locate services on a local area network (LAN). However, due to device vendors’ design flaw in the implementation, when a normal IP address sends a service discovery packet, devices will also respond to the request. If exposed on the Internet, these devices will be possibly […]
