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/ Roland Dobbins , Hardik Modi

Availability in the Time of COVID-19

Overview The self-quarantine and social distancing guidance provided by governments around the world in response to the COVID-19 pandemic is leading to a rapid and wholesale switch...

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
NETSCOUT Threat Intelligence Report
/ ASERT Team

NETSCOUT Threat Intelligence Report—Powered by ATLAS

8.4 MILLION, that is the number of DDoS attacks NETSCOUT Threat Intelligence saw last year alone: more than 23,000 attacks per day, 16 every minute.

  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
  • Advanced Persistent Threats
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/ ASERT Team

DDoS Attack Vectors Live or Die

Executive Summary Dozens of known attack vectors ranging from obscure or little-used protocols (Citrix-ICA) to very common and vastly used protocols (DNS and NTP) give DDoS...

  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
  • ASERT
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/ ASERT Team

Nation State APT & The Business World

A recent article, which NETSCOUT had the opportunity to participate in, highlights the importance the corporate world holds for Nation State APT adversaries. As the article duly...

Trojan Horse
/ Suweera De Souza

Emotet - What's Changed?

Executive Summary Emotet, a banking trojan turned downloader, continues to make waves in the downloader scene despite recent hibernations. Emotet is a modular malware, first...

  • Malware
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/ ASERT Team

Air APT

Executive Summary Airlines and the airport industry in general are highly lucrative targets for APT groups; they are rife with information that other countries would find useful...

  • Advanced Persistent Threats
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/ ASERT Team

NETSCOUT Threat Intelligence Report

"It’s hard to express the scale of today’s cyber threat landscape, let alone its global impact." - Hardik Modi, Senior Director of Threat Intelligence Executive Summary In the past...

  • Advanced Persistent Threats
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
Key Takeaways: - A new UDP reflection/amplification DDoS vector is observed in the wild. - The surprising nature of the abusable reflectors/amplifiers. - Recommended DDoS Defense and Best Current Practices (BCPs) for ARMS.
/ Steinthor Bjarnason , Roland Dobbins

A Call to ARMS: Apple Remote Management Service UDP Reflection/Amplification DDoS Attacks

Key Takeaways: - A new UDP reflection/amplification DDoS vector is observed in the wild. - The surprising nature of the abusable reflectors/amplifiers. - Recommended DDoS Defense...

  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
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/ ASERT Team

Realtek SDK Exploits on the Rise from Egypt

Executive Summary ASERT’s IoT honeypot network continuously monitors known exploit vectors and we recently detected a spike in exploit attempts targeting the Realtek SDK miniigd...

  • Vulnerabilities
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/ ASERT Team

LUCKY ELEPHANT Campaign Masquerading

In early March 2019, ASERT Researchers uncovered a credential harvesting campaign targeting mostly South Asian governments. The actors behind this campaign we call LUCKY ELEPHANT...

  • Advanced Persistent Threats
NETSCOUT Threat Intelligence Report
/ ASERT Team

Introducing the NETSCOUT Threat Intelligence Report – Findings from Second Half 2018

NETSCOUT Threat Intellgience Report - Security Findings from Second Half 2018. Special Report powered by ATLAS.

  • threat analysis
Exploits Attempts for the Month of December 2018
/ ASERT Team

IoT Exploits: Around The World In 120 Days

Internet of Things (IoT) botnets commonly propagate by exploiting vulnerabilities in IoT devices. Telemetry from our IoT honeypots show the number of exploit attempts originating...

  • Honeypots
  • Malware