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“TNT” gang has released a new hardware TDoS tool in the criminal underground

  • 20 February 2015
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February 20, 2015  By Pierluigi Paganini
 

Telephone DDoS attacks are on the rise, the  criminal group known as “TNT” gang has released a new hardware tool in the underground ecosystem.

The IntelCrawler cyber threat intelligence company has discovered a new advanced tool, dubbed ‘TNT Instant Up’, for Telephone Denial of Service attacks (TDoS). TDoS is a common practice in the criminal underground, it consists in flooding of unwanted, malicious inbound calls on a targeted system.
 
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The “TNT Instant Up” tool is a dedicated hardware that could be used by crooks to run TDoS attack, it consists of up to 12 connected Wireless USB 3G/4G modems. The TDoS tool runs a special software that allows attackers to hammer victims with continuous calls from inserted unlocked SIM-cards (GSM flood).
 
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23 Feb 2015 at 10:27, John Leyden
 
Cybercrooks are marketing a hardware-based tool for running denial of service attacks on telephone systems.
The Telephone Denial of Service attacks (TDoS) rig is being sold by a group of cybercriminals called “TNT” from Eastern Europe via underground cybercrime forums.
 The tool, called “TNT Instant Up”, features a special hardware platform made up of several connected Wireless USB 3G/4G modems (up to 12 devices).
Specialised software allows the tool to perform continuous calls from inserted unlocked SIM-cards (GSM flood) and leverages various SIP providers (SIP flood), according to security intelligence firm IntelCrawler.
 
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