Conclusion and Recommendations In 2018, botnets continued using DDoS as their primary weapon to attack regions with ubiquitous high speed networking for direct economic gains. However, they underwent significant changes in behavioral patterns, host platforms, C&C server deployment, infection methods, attack methods, and payload types. Security service providers need to adapt their strategies to better […]
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 September 08, 2019. Top 10 countries in attack percentage: The Laos is in first place. The Palestine is in the second place. The country China (CN) is […]
4.4 Satan: Evolving Ransomware In late April 2018, MalwareHunterTeam reported seeing new ransomware that leveraged EternalBlue to propagate. Through analysis, we found that the ransomware was based on a new version (dubbed V2) of Satan, a ransomware family launched in 2017. The ransom demanded in this version increased from 0.1 to 0.3 Bitcoin. At the […]
4.3 XMRig: Cryptomining For Fun and Profit Cryptomining by botnets has gained popularity in the past two years. Unlike other common malicious activities like DDoS, ransomware attacks, and confidential information theft, cryptomining has some unique characteristics: 1. Predictable earnings. Cryptominers are good at hiding their presence by controlling their CPU usage within 30%–40%. Based on […]
4.2.2 Analysis During the first quarter of 2018 when BillGates was extremely active, the family was found to attack 3962 targets, most of which were in two Central American countries. The following map shows the distribution of BillGates targets in China that NSFOCUS was able to directly monitor. BillGates ignored common ports, such as 22, […]
This document addresses the overall strategy and process for DDoS incident response and provides detailed analysis of and countermeasures against some typical attacks, in a bid to help organizations respond to DDoS attacks more effectively and efficiently. Therefore, we will not dwell upon specific methods of and configurations of specific mitigations against each type of […]
1 Sample Introduction Banjori is a banking trojan that has been active since it was first spotted in 2013. It identifies personal online banking users in France, Germany, and the USA as major targets. After infecting a user, the trojan injects a malicious payload into the user’s active processes and collect the user’s information. Banking […]
