October 7, 2024 at 05:29PM A new Mirai variant named GorillaBot unleashed 300,000 DDoS attacks last month, impacting 20,000 organizations globally. The attacks primarily used UDP flood and TCP ACK Bypass methods, targeting 113 countries. GorillaBot, based on Mirai code, introduces 19 DDoS attack methods, posing a growing challenge for affected organizations to mitigate. This … Read more
October 7, 2024 at 06:45AM The Gorilla (aka GorillaBot) botnet, a new variant of Mirai, has been identified by cybersecurity researchers. It has carried out over 300,000 attack commands with a high attack density, targeting over 100 countries and using various DDoS attack methods. It also exploits a security flaw in Apache Hadoop YARN RPC … Read more
August 15, 2024 at 03:21AM A new threat actor, known as Actor240524, has launched cyber attacks targeting Azerbaijan and Israel to steal sensitive data, using spear-phishing emails and malware like ABCloader and ABCsync. The attacks aim to avoid detection through anti-sandbox and anti-analysis techniques. NSFOCUS attributes the attacks to disrupt the cooperative relationship between the … Read more