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2024 State of Cybersecurity: Reports of More Threats & Prioritization Issues

eSecurity Planet

50,000 DDoS attacks on public domain name service (DNS) resolvers. 553% increase in DNS Flood attacks from 1H 2020 to 2H 2023. DDoS attacks on single networks or websites render them unavailable, but DDoS attacks on DNS resolvers bring down all networks and websites using that DNS resource.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 302

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How Hackers Use Reconnaissance – and How to Protect Against It

eSecurity Planet

Antivirus and EDR tools, SIEM systems (security information and event management), security vendors, software, hardware, firmware, and operating systems. Public WHOIS data such as DNS name servers, IP blocks, and contact information. Credentials, emails, employee names, roles, departments/divisions, and physical location.

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StripedFly: Perennially flying under the radar

SecureList

This archive is discreetly hosted on legitimate websites, cleverly disguised as firmware binaries for enigmatic devices labeled “m100” The Bitbucket repository was created on June 21, 2018, under the account of Julie Heilman, and it remains the sole repository associated with this profile. onion ghtyqipha6mcwxiz[.]onion

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Defending Against Misconfigured MFA & PrintNightmare Vulnerabilities

eSecurity Planet

Update software, including operating systems, applications, and firmware on IT network assets in a timely manner. Enable increased logging policies, enforce PowerShell logging, and ensure antivirus / endpoint detection and response (EDR) are deployed to all endpoints and enabled. Identify and create offline backups for critical assets.

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Types of Malware & Best Malware Protection Practices

eSecurity Planet

Install an antivirus solution that includes anti-adware capabilities. If your antivirus software fails to notice a new strain, you can reinstall the browser. Firmware rootkit. Luckily, anti-spyware capabilities are included in most antivirus or anti-malware packages nowadays. How to Defend Against Adware. RAM Scraper.

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What is a Managed Security Service Provider? MSSPs Explained

eSecurity Planet

Managed endpoint security installs, configures, and maintains endpoint protection tools ( antivirus , endpoint detection and response (EDR), etc.) and installed software (operating systems, applications, firmware, etc.). and then monitors the endpoint alerts to respond to detected threats.