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The Hail Mary Cloud was, or is, a password guessing botnet, which used a statistical equivalent to brute force password guessing. The botnet ran from possibly as early as 2005, [1] and certainly from 2007 until 2012 and possibly later. The botnet was named and documented by Peter N. M. Hansteen.
Fast flux is a domain name system (DNS) based evasion technique used by cyber criminals to hide phishing and malware delivery websites behind an ever-changing network of compromised hosts acting as reverse proxies to the backend botnet master —a bulletproof autonomous system. [1] It can also refer to the combination of peer-to-peer networking ...
Mirai (from the Japanese word for "future", 未来) is malware that turns networked devices running Linux into remotely controlled bots that can be used as part of a botnet in large-scale network attacks. It primarily targets online consumer devices such as IP cameras and home routers. [1] The Mirai botnet was first found in August 2016 [2] by ...
A yo-yo attack is a specific type of DoS/DDoS aimed at cloud-hosted applications which use autoscaling. [33] [34] [35] The attacker generates a flood of traffic until a cloud-hosted service scales outwards to handle the increase of traffic, then halts the attack, leaving the victim with over-provisioned resources. When the victim scales back ...
A botnet is a logical collection of Internet -connected devices, such as computers, smartphones or Internet of things (IoT) devices whose security have been breached and control ceded to a third party. Each compromised device, known as a "bot," is created when a device is penetrated by software from a malware (malicious software) distribution.
Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) is a zero-day vulnerability in Log4j, a popular Java logging framework, involving arbitrary code execution. [2] [3] The vulnerability had existed unnoticed since 2013 and was privately disclosed to the Apache Software Foundation, of which Log4j is a project, by Chen Zhaojun of Alibaba Cloud's security team on 24 November 2021.
Google Cloud Shell is an online, browser-based command-line environment provided by Google Cloud Platform (GCP). It is a Debian-based virtual machine with a persistent 5 GB home directory, allowing users to manage their GCP resources and projects directly from their web browser. [1][2][3] Cloud Shell is available to all Google Cloud users ...
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