4.2 Significant Increase in Device Vulnerabilities In the past few years, vulnerabilities associated with network devices have grown rapidly. This is because more network enabled devices of more diverse types are connecting to the network. The threat increases as device vendors do not take security seriously and are remiss in providing timely firmware updates. Thus, […]
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 November 17, 2019. Top 10 countries in attack percentage: The Laos is in first place. The Uzbekistan is in the second place. The country China (CN) is not […]
What Is DDoS? Look at the following example: Assume that you run a shop that is doing well. At this time, your neighbor, Mr. Wang (or whatever his name is), whose business is slack, looks at you as an eyesore. Therefore, he hires a group of hooligans. Then you find that your shop is crowded […]
In July, 2019, Cloud DPS, a cloud cleaning product from NSFOCUS, managed to withstand a wave of DDoS attacks over 100 Gbps that lasted one week. Targeting a board/card game vendor, those attacks exhibited perfect regularity, with the traffic averaging 100 Gbps and peaking at 431.6 Gbps.
I. Principle At present, there has been a great deal of news coverage about information disclosure. A large amount of information is constantly disclosed and sold through various websites, resulting in endless cases of telecom fraud. We have already known that SQL injection is the culprit responsible for all the cases. An SQL injection attack […]
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 November 10, 2019.
3.3 Recidivists “Recidivists” here refer to attack sources found to repeatedly engage in malicious activities. In the 2018 H1 Cybersecurity Insights, we pointed out that 25% of recidivists were responsible for 40% of attack events24. Considering the quantity and level of threat, these attackers should not be underestimated. By the end of 2018, the number […]
Incident Review In February 2019, our monitoring found that some domestic users, when accessing certain websites through their home routers, were hijacked to pornographic and gambling websites. According to our sample inspection, more than 4 million IP addresses were hijacked to about 190 domain names concerning pornography and gambling during this incident. These victim users […]
1 Overview On April 18, 2019 a hacker/hacker organization sold a toolkit of the APT34 group, under the false name of Lab Dookhtegan, on a Telegram channel. The organization also posted screenshots of the tool’s backend panels, where victim data had been collected. Early in the middle of March 2019, this hacker/hacker organization had released […]
