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Network Security Architecture: Best Practices & Tools

eSecurity Planet

Network security architecture is a strategy that provides formal processes to design robust and secure networks. Effective implementation improves data throughput, system reliability, and overall security for any organization.

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KmsdBot, a new evasive bot for cryptomining activity and DDoS attacks

Security Affairs

The malware was employed in cryptocurrency mining campaigns and to launch denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. KmsdBot supports multiple architectures, including as Winx86, Arm64, and mips64, x86_64, and does not stay persistent to avoid detection. ” reads the post published by Akamai. ” concludes the report.

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DDoS attacks leverages Plex media server

SC Magazine

Netscout is reporting a spate of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks leveraging a problematic engineering decision in the popular Plex media server. For companies that count many employees working from home, this can introduce risk to corporate networks. “That includes the broadband internet access router. .

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New HEH botnet wipes devices potentially bricking them

Security Affairs

Researchers from from Netlab, the network security division of Chinese tech giant Qihoo 360, have discovered a new botnet, tracked as HEH, that contains the code to wipe all data from infected systems, such as routers, IoT devices, and servers. In the current version, each node cannot send control command to its peers.

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Public Cloud Security Explained: Everything You Need to Know

eSecurity Planet

These safeguards, when combined with adherence to security best practices and standards, establish a strong security architecture for public cloud environments. Firewalls and Network Security Firewalls serve as a barrier between cloud resources and external networks in a public cloud environment.

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What Is a Circuit-Level Gateway? Definitive Guide

eSecurity Planet

Successful implementation of a circuit-level gateway defends against unrestricted communication, which can enable network probing, malware delivery, and other attacks. CLGs can be combined with threat feeds to inform security policies that block known-malicious URLs and IP addresses.

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Godlua backdoor, the first malware that abuses the DNS over HTTPS (DoH)

Security Affairs

Researchers at Network Security Research Lab of Qihoo 360 discovered a Lua-based backdoor dubbed Godlua that targets both Linux and Windows systems. Godlua is a DDoS bot that was already involved in attacks in the wild, such as the one that hit liuxiaobei[.]com com domain.

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