{"id":17257,"date":"2019-12-19T10:52:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T18:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2019\/12\/19\/news-10993\/"},"modified":"2019-12-19T10:52:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T18:52:19","slug":"news-10993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2019\/12\/19\/news-10993\/","title":{"rendered":"VB2019 paper: Exploring the Chinese DDoS landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China has long been a hotbed of DDoS activities, with several groups operating in this space and attacks being performed that are criminal in nature but also that are in line with the country&#8217;s geopolitical interests.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper presented a VB2019 in London, <em>Intezer<\/em> researcher Nacho Sanmillan explored the Chinese DDoS threat landscape. In particular he focused on two actors, ChinaZ and Nitol, and the links between them. He also found interesting links between the DDoS actors and a Chinese APT group.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.virusbulletin.com\/files\/cache\/9679224069cdadb819bb78f927eb994b_f4319.png\" alt=\"Figure48-conclusion.png\" width=\"660\" height=\"304\" \/><br \/>Today we publish Nacho&#8217;s paper in both <a title=\"VB2019 paper: Exploring the Chinese DDoS threat landscape\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virusbulletin.com\/virusbulletin\/2019\/12\/vb2019-paper-exploring-chinese-ddos-threat-landscape\/\">HTML<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virusbulletin.com\/uploads\/pdf\/magazine\/2019\/VB2019-Sanmillan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">PDF <\/a>format. We have also uploaded the recording of his presentation at VB2019 in London to our <em>YouTube<\/em> channel.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"100%\" height=\"420\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pj9Zt6C2ong\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" style=\"\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>outertext<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.virusbulletin.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/vb2019-paper-exploring-chinese-ddos-landscape\/\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/www.virusbulletin.com\/rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.virusbulletin.com\/files\/cache\/9679224069cdadb819bb78f927eb994b_f4319.png\"\/><br \/>                                 China has long been a hotbed of DDoS activities, and today we publish a VB2019 paper by Intezer researcher Nacho Sanmillan who looked at Chinese threat groups engaged in performing DDoS attacks. We have also uploaded the recording of his presentation.                <\/p>\n<p>                 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virusbulletin.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/vb2019-paper-exploring-chinese-ddos-landscape\/\">Read more<\/a>                                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[23177,10378,23176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magazine","category-security","category-virusbulletin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}