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The threat actor behind the Fodcha distributed denial-of-service botnet has resurfaced with new capabilities, researchers reveal. Fodcha first came to light earlier this April, with the malware propagating through known vulnerabilities in Android and IoT devices as well as weak Telnet or SSH passwords.
A new version of the Fodcha DDoS botnet has emerged, featuring ransom demands injected into packets and new features to evade detection of its infrastructure. The most notable improvement in this botnet version is the delivery of ransom demands directly within DDoS packets used against victims' networks.
In the first half of 2022, the amount of DDoS attacks increased by 75.6% compared to the second half of 2021, according to new Nexusguard research revealed in the company's DDoS Statistical Report for 1HY 2022. In this Help Net Security video, Juniman Kasman, CTO at Nexusguard, talks about how, while the total number of attacks did grow, the average and maximum attack sizes each decreased by 56% and 66.8%, respectively, during the same period.
Microsoft announced today the availability of Azure DDoS IP Protection in public preview, a new and fully managed DDoS Protection pay-per-protected IP model tailored to small and midsize businesses.Unlike the enterprise offering, DDoS IP Protection does not have support for DDoS rapid response support, cost protection, and discounts on WAF. "With the DDoS IP Protection SKU, customers now have the flexibility to enable DDoS protection on individual public IP addresses," Microsoft Senior Product Manager for Azure Networking Amir Dahan said.
Web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare disclosed this week that it halted a 2.5 Tbps distributed denial-of-service attack launched by a Mirai botnet. Characterizing it as a "Multi-vector attack consisting of UDP and TCP floods," researcher Omer Yoachimik said the DDoS attack targeted the Minecraft server Wynncraft in Q3 2022.
A pro-Russian group created a crowdsourced project called 'DDOSIA' that pays volunteers launching distributed denial-of-service attacks against western entities. In hacktivist DDoS attacks, volunteers don't get a monetary reward.
Wynncraft, one of the largest Minecraft servers, was recently hit by a 2.5 Tbps distributed denial-of-service attack. It was a multi-vector attack that lasted for about two minutes and consisted of UDP and TCP floods packets attempting to overwhelm the server and keep out hundreds of thousands of players, DDoS mitigation company Cloudflare says.
The pro-Russian hacktivist group 'KillNet' is claiming large-scale distributed denial-of-service attacks against websites of several major airports in the U.S., making them unaccessible.The DDoS attacks have overwhelmed the servers hosting these sites with garbage requests, making it impossible for travelers to connect and get updates about their scheduled flights or book airport services.
The pro-Russian hacktivist group 'KillNet' has carried out large-scale DDoS attacks against several U.S. airports' websites, taking many of them offline. The DDoS attacks have overwhelmed the servers hosting these sites with garbage requests, making it impossible for travelers to connect and get updates about their scheduled flights or book airport services.
A quickly expanding botnet called Chaos is targeting and infecting Windows and Linux devices to use them for cryptomining and launching DDoS attacks. Even though it mainly propagates by attacking devices unpatched against various security vulnerabilities and SSH brute-forcing, Chaos will also use stolen SSH keys to hijack more devices.