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DDoS Extortion Update: As previously reported, a relatively prolific threat actor initiated a global campaign of DDoS extortion attacks in mid-August 2020, largely directed towards regional financial and travel-industry targets such as regional banks, stock exchanges, travel agencies, currency exchanges, and, in some cases, their upstream internet transit providers. Read this latest update.

Trickbot has long been one of the key banking malware families in the wild. Despite recent disruption events, the operators continue to drive forward with the malware and have recently begun porting portions of its code to the Linux operating system.

Starting in mid-August 2020, a relatively prolific threat actor initiated a global campaign of DDoS extortion attacks largely directed towards regional financial and travel-industry targets such as regional banks, stock exchanges, travel agencies, currency exchanges, and, in some cases, their upstream internet transit providers.

ASERT researchers have uncovered new information about Lucifer, which is a cryptojacking and distributed denial of service (DDoS) bot, originally found to exploit and run on Windows based systems.

By all indications, the events of last week brought have brought the importance of DDoS defense into focus for many individuals and organizations. DDoS attacks aren’t something to be taken lightly...

Summary Based on a case study in our most recent blog, the observed global DDoS attack count (frequency), bandwidth (BPS), and throughput (PPS) all saw significant increases since...

Summary One of the more esoteric aspects of working in the DDoS defense space is the analysis of data. We look at data about attack bandwidth (bps) and throughput (pps)...

Summary In October of 2019, high-impact TCP reflection/amplification DDoS attacks hit organizations in Scandinavia and Southern Europe. These attacks leveraged servers belonging to...

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...

NETSCOUT divested its handheld network test (HNT) tool business to StoneCalibre in 2018, including the LinkSprinter™ Network Tester, LinkRunner™ Network Auto-Tester, OneTouch AT...

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.

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...

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 notes, there used to be a handful of countries publicly named for acts of cyber espionage spanning across borders. The reality today is that any nation can, and does, incorporate their own methods of cyber warfare. Ranging from simple spam messaging to sophisticated, custom malware capable of evading even the best anti-virus signatures in existence.

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...

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...

"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...

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.

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...