Mirai Botnet variant exploits vulnerabilities to assimilate Linux and IoT devices. New DDoS attacks coming?

https://thehackernews.com/2023/02/new-mirai-botnet-variant-v3g4.html

Credential stuffing attacks are using residential proxies (hacked devices)

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-warns-of-residential-proxies-used-in-credential-stuffing-attacks/

QNAP warns of Checkmate Ransomware via public internet exposure of SMB services

https://www.qnap.com/en/security-advisory/QSA-22-21

Five vulnerabilities in Illumina devices disclosed; 4 of them assigned a 10/10 rating. FDA and CISA tells healthcare orgs to take immediate action

Healthcare Organizations Warned About Maximum Severity Vulnerabilities in Illumina Devices

Russia shares a list of IPs that said to be attacking them in DDoS attempts. This is a good list to keep.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/russia-shares-list-of-17-000-ips-allegedly-ddosing-russian-orgs/

Multiple services down from Amazon Web Services (AWS)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/amazon-web-services-are-down-taking-huge-parts-of-internet-offline/ar-AARzhJb

DVRs turned into Monero cryptominers by botnet attacks

FreakOut Botnet Turns DVRs Into Monero Cryptominers

If you talked to someone today (or recently) at a call center, and it sounded horrible, know that VOIP providers still being hit by DDoS attacks

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bandwidthcom-is-latest-victim-of-ddos-attacks-against-voip-providers/

From the desk of “Things you shouldn’t have to worry about”; Shares a desk with “Things you should worry about”

Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in Motorola Baby Monitors

Botnet targeting Netgear, Huawei, and ZTE devices

https://thehackernews.com/2021/08/mozi-iot-botnet-now-also-targets.html