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Network-layer DDoS attack doubled in last 3 months

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks directed at networks observed in the third quarter doubled again, according to Cloudflare. Omer Yoachimik and Vivek Ganti from Cloudflare published a blog post about Network-layer DDoS attack trends for Q3 2020, considering attacks on Cloudflare. While DDoS attacks are surging both in frequency and sophistication, the total number of network...

New IoT botnet discovered: Dark Nexus

Bitdefender researchers have found a new IoT botnet named the botnet “dark_nexus” based on a string it prints in its banner. A new IoT botnet, discovered by Bitdefender researchers, is named Dark Nexus. In one of its earliest versions, it used this name in its user agent string when carrying out exploits over HTTP: “dark_NeXus_Qbot/4.0”,...