Botnets can pose a variety of cyber threats. NSFOCUS Security Labs has been focused on the capture, track, and study of botnet-related threats. In 2019, the Labs further upgraded its capturing and tracking techniques and capabilities and expanded its scope of interest to cover more diverse threats, including cryptojacking, ransomware attacks, data theft by banking […]
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 July 19, 2020.
Ransomware In 2019, ransomware was still a major type of threats that haunted people around the world. The most prominent families were GlobeImposter, GandCrab, and WannaCry, which were extremely active and had far more variants than others. According to NSFOCUS Security Labs’ observation, the number of ransomware families and variants increased sharply in four months […]
2019 witnessed frequent breakout of cybersecurity events, in which malware played an important role, exhibiting an eye-popping power of destruction with botnets. At the end of 2018, Driver Talent suffered a supply chain attack as a result of its upgrade channel being planted with a Monero mining trojan, which, once breaking into a computer, would […]
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 July 12, 2020.
Cryptomining Traffic Based on all sorts of security alert data from NSFOCUS Managed Security Service (MSS), we made a quantitative analysis of cryptomining activities and hosts in enterprises in 2019 and found that the cryptomining topicality is positively correlated with the cryptomining market trend.
Executive Summary With the rapid advancement of computer technologies and more and more network devices joining the Internet, the global Internet has expanded at an unbelievably high speed. However, efforts made in enhancing cybersecurity are lagging far behind the growth of the Internet, leaving an ever-growing gap in between. Many cybercrime groups and individuals are […]
Second Largest Gang by the Number of Attack Sources The second largest gang in terms of the number of attack sources generated the largest traffic. This gang had 23,000 recidivists and favored volumetric SYN flood attacks. According to historical attack records, 99.54% of recidivists had resorted to this kind of attack. This gang stayed active […]
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 July 5, 2020.
In 2019, 7% of recidivists1 were responsible for 78% of DDoS attacks. Obviously, recidivists are too menacing to overlook. Several groups of DDoS recidivists often work together to initiate attacks. Such groups are collectively referred to as an “IP gang”. In 2019, a total of 60 DDoS gangs were detected, including 15 ones that contained […]
