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Details of a new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) assault campaign that targets improperly configured Jupyter Notebooks have been revealed by cybersecurity experts. The activity, which cloud security company Aqua has named Panamorfi, uses a Java-based program called mineping to initiate a DDoS attack against TCP flooding. A DDoS package called mineping is intended for Minecraft gaming servers. Attack chains involve using Jupyter Notebook instances that are open to the internet to execute wget commands to retrieve a ZIP archive that is hosted on Filebin, a file-sharing website. Two Java archive (JAR) files, conn.jar and mineping.jar, are included in the ZIP file. The former is needed to connect to a Discord channel and start the mineping.jar package read more about Hackers Exp...

Many US government organizations and nonprofits have issued warnings to people about Valentine's Day-related romance scams. Over the past week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned residents of Texas and New Mexico about these crime attempts in two different statements. When compared to other online crimes, romantic scams have resulted in some of the largest financial losses, according to the Bureau's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). Online romance scam victim losses nationwide in 2021 were estimated to be $5.9 billion. According to the special agent in charge of the FBI El Paso Field Office Jeffrey R. Downey read more Cybersecurity Experts Warn Against Valentine's Day Scams. With ReconBee.com Stay ahead of the latest threats with in-depth coverage of cyb...

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Hackers Exploit Misconfigured Jupyter Notebooks with Repurposed Minecraft DDoS Tool

Cybersecurity Experts Warn Against Valentine’s Day Scams