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Cybercriminals abuse major U.S SMS gateways, release DIY Mail-to-SMS flooders
By Dancho Danchev Largely driven by a widespread adoption of growth and efficiency oriented strategies applied by cybercriminals within the entire spectrum of the cybercrime ecosystem, we’ve witnessed...
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DIY Skype ring flooder offered for sale
By Dancho Danchev Thanks to the ease of generating a botnet, in 2013, stolen accounting data on a mass scale is a no longer a hot underground item, it’s a commodity, one that’s being offered by...
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DIY SIP-based TDoS tool/number validity checker offered for sale
By Dancho Danchev Over the past year, we observed an increase in publicly available managed TDoS (Telephony Denial of Service) services. We attribute this increase to the achieved ‘malicious economies...
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New IRC/HTTP based DDoS bot wipes out competing malware
By Dancho Danchev Everyday, new vendors offering malicious software enter the underground marketplace. And although many will fail to differentiate their underground market proposition in market...
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Web-based DNS amplification DDoS attack mode supporting PHP script spotted in...
The idea of controlling multiple, high-bandwidth empowered servers for launching DDoS attacks, compared to, for instance, controlling hundreds of thousands of malware-infected hosts, has always tempted...
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Cybercriminals experiment with ‘Socks4/Socks5/HTTP’ malware-infected hosts...
Based on historical evidence gathered during some of the major ‘opt-in botnet’ type of crowdsourced DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack campaigns that took place over the last couple of years,...
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DDoS for hire vendor ‘vertically integrates’ starts offering TDoS attack...
DDoS for hire has always been an inseparable part of the portfolio of services offered by the cybercrime ecosystem. With DDoS extortion continuing to go largely under-reported, throughout the last...
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Cybercriminals experiment with ‘Socks4/Socks5/HTTP’ malware-infected hosts...
Based on historical evidence gathered during some of the major ‘opt-in botnet’ type of crowdsourced DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack campaigns that took place over the last couple of years,...
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DDoS for hire vendor ‘vertically integrates’ starts offering TDoS attack...
DDoS for hire has always been an inseparable part of the portfolio of services offered by the cybercrime ecosystem. With DDoS extortion continuing to go largely under-reported, throughout the last...
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