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 May 31, 2020. 2. Top 10 countries in attack percentage: The Belarus is in first place. The Cape Verde is in the second place. The country China […]
Active Families Gafgyt As one of the largest IoT DDoS families, Gafgyt compromises such devices as routers and cameras by means of password cracking and exploits to receive C&C commands and launch DDoS attacks. In 2019, the Gafgyt family continued to be active, mainly targeting North America, Europe, and Australia. The number of Gafgyt-based malware […]
The world’s leading research and advisory company, Gartner, has named NSFOCUS as a Representative Vendor in its May 2020 Market Guide for Security Threat Intelligence Products and Services. This guide provides in-depth analysis of the threat intelligence (TI) market, focusing on introducing its technical value and commercial potential of threat intelligence, and selecting credible vendors […]
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 May 24, 2020. 2. Top 10 countries in attack percentage: The Belarus is in first place. The Cape Verde is in the second place. The country China […]
DDoS Botnets In 2019, NSFOCUS Security Labs detected over 400,000 DDoS attacks launched via botnets, a sharp increase compared with 2018 (8323 DDoS attacks). According to our observation, thebotnets running on IoT devices were mainly Mirai and Gafgyt families. These two families were exploited to launch over 60% of DDoS attacks in the first half […]
NSFOCUS cloud scrubbing center witnessed a torrent of DDoS attack traffic, with peak volume up to 634.8 Gbps. At 5 p.m. of May 20th, 2020, NSFOCUS SOC team detected an enormous DDoS attack – three IPs of a Hong Kong customer were hit by DDoS attacks and inbound traffic kept increasing sharply. As DDoS attack […]
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 May 17, 2020. 2. Top 10 countries in attack percentage: The Belarus is in first place. The Cape Verde is in the second place. The country China […]
Participation of IoT Devices in DDoS Attacks According to our observation, there were a total of more than 1,280,000 IP addresses of abnormal IoT devices around the world, accounting for 2.1% of all global IoT devices. Of all those abnormal IoT devices, 170,000 were involved in DDoS attacks, making up 13.08% of the total.
Overview Oracle released Critical Patch Update (CPU) for April 2020 that fixes multiple vulnerabilities of different risk levels, including two critical ones (CVE-2020-2883 and CVE-2020-2884) with a CVSS score of 9.8 that allow unauthenticated attackers with network access via T3 to compromise vulnerable Oracle WebLogic Server. Successful exploitation could result in takeover of Oracle WebLogic […]
With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic around the world, trending hashtags related to the epidemic are flooding social media, attracting attention of a number of international hacker organizations, which jump at the chance to conduct social engineering based on decoy messages. Recently, NSFCOUS found that NetWire controllers began to drop the trojan with the […]
