Rubycarp has been in operation for at least a decade, and its campaigns appear to overlap with other cybercrime groups, according to researchers at Sysdig.
he year 2023 turned out to be quite rich in events and trends in the field of cybersecurity. We witnessed a new term "white noise", the development of artificial intelligence led to increased bot activity, which significantly affected commercial companies. We detected signs of a resurgence in popularity of commercial DDoS attacks. The implementation of "remote office" technologies led to the expansion of communication channels and, as a result, increased intensity of attacks. But first things first.
DDoS Attacks by Vectors
The fourth quarter of the past year didn't bring any surprises in terms of the distribution of mixed attacks by vectors. UDP flood once again topped the list with a rate of 60.20%. IP flood came in second at 16.86%. Multivector attacks also made it into the top three with 13.36%. Overall, the distribution was as follows:
UDP flood - 60.20%
SYN flood - 7.26%
IP flood - 16.86%
Multivector attacks - 13.36%
This joint guide, Understanding and Responding to Distributed Denial-Of-Service Attacks, addresses the specific needs and challenges faced by organizations in defending against DDoS attacks. The guidance now includes detailed insight into three different types of DDoS techniques:
Volumetric, attacks aiming to consume available bandwidth.
Protocol, attacks which exploit vulnerabilities in network protocols.
Application, attacks targeting vulnerabilities in specific applications or running services.
Si ces attaques, qui ont commencé dimanche soir, ont été d’une « intensité inédite », les services du premier ministre ont précisé lundi que leur impact avait été « réduit ». Elles ont été revendiquées par Anonymous Sudan, qui regroupe des militants prorusses.
NoName057(16) relies heavily on HTTPS application-layer DDoS attacks, with many attacks repeatedly sourced from the same attack harness, networks, and targeting similar countries and industries.
Over on SuspectFile, Marco A. De Felice reports that the NoEscape ransomware gang is threatening to release 1.5 TB of data from PruittHealth Network. De Felice...
Several websites of Belgian institutions (such as those of the Royal Palace, the Chancellery of the Prime Minister and the Senate) experienced some disruption late Thursday afternoon.
This post dives into the details of the HTTP/2 protocol, the feature that attackers exploited to generate the massive Rapid Reset attacks, and the mitigation strategies we took to ensure all our customers are protected
Every morning at roughly the same time, a Russian hacker group known as NoName057(16) carries out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on European financial institutions, government websites or transportation services.
Q2 2023 saw an unprecedented escalation in DDoS attack sophistication. Pro-Russian hacktivists REvil, Killnet and Anonymous Sudan joined forces to attack Western sites. Mitel vulnerability exploits surged by a whopping 532%, and attacks on crypto rocketed up by 600%. Read the full story...
FortiGuard Labs encountered recent samples of a DDoS-as-a-service botnet calling itself Condi. It attempted to spread by exploiting TP-Link Archer AX21 (AX1800) routers vulnerable to CVE-2023-1389, which was disclosed in mid-March of this year. Read more.
Microsoft says the early June disruptions to its Microsoft’s flagship office suite — including the Outlook email apps — were denial-of-service attacks by a shadowy new hacktivist group. In a blog post published Friday evening after The Associated Press sought clarification on the sporadic but serious outages, Microsoft confirmed that that they were DDoS attacks by a group calling itself Anonymous Sudan, which some security researchers believe is Russia-affiliated. The software giant offered few details on the attack. It did not comment on how many customers were affected.
La guerre s’est invitée dans le cyberespace suisse avec fracas cette semaine, le groupe de hackers NoName visant des dizaines de cibles. Il faudra mieux se préparer face à des attaques qui pourraient s’intensifier, avertissent trois experts
Déferlante d’attaques DDoS en Suisse revendiquées par des hacktivistes pro-russes
The Swiss government is under DDoS attacks, but several ransomware gangs have also turned their sights on other Swiss organizations.
Lundi 12 juin 2023, plusieurs sites Internet de la Confédération étaient ou sont encore inaccessibles, en raison d’une attaque DDoS menée contre ses systèmes. Celle-ci a été rapidement détectée par les spécialistes de l’administration fédérale, qui travaillent actuellement à rétablir dans les plus brefs délais l’accès aux applications et sites Internet touchés.
L’entité «NoName» a pris pour cible des sites officiels de l’administration, comme FedPol, lundi matin lors d’une cyberattaque.
Revendiquée par un cyberpirate dénommé Anonymous Sudan, une série d'attaques a paralysé pendant plusieurs jours de multiples services cloud de Microsoft dont Outlook, SharePoint et OneDrive. Les difficultés de l'éditeur à assurer une remise en service complète dans ce laps de temps interroge.
Une cyberattaque paralyse en partie le site www.parlament.ch, une agression peut-être en lien avec la prochaine prise de parole du président ukrainien.
For a decade, a group called Big Pipes has worked behind the scenes with the FBI to target the worst cybercriminal “booter” services plaguing the internet.
WHEN THE FBI announced the takedown of 13 cyberattack-for-hire services yesterday, it may have seemed like just another day in law enforcement’s cat-and-mouse game with a criminal industry that has long plagued the internet’s infrastructure, bombarding victims with relentless waves of junk internet traffic to knock them offline. In fact, it was the latest win for a discreet group of detectives that has quietly worked behind the scenes for nearly a decade with the goal of ending that plague for good.
