Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Seeing many websites left vulnerable was unexpected, as attacks against universities have historically been very common, starting from DDoS attacks launched by students trying to cancel classes to full-blown ransomware attacks,” Cybernews researchers said. All this could enable attackers to hijack accounts and have admin access.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

Catchpoint launched in 2008 as a dedicated monitoring tools provider right as organizations started to dabble with cloud services. Kentik’s solutions can protect core, edge, and cloud networks while adding DDoS and botnet protection, supply chain analytics, and synthetics. Read more : Best SIEM Tools of 2022. Catchpoint.

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Up until recently, central banks have acted as the metaphorical custodian of trust, employing complex processes that force populations to participate in bank accounts and credit cards to earn trust benefits, like credit scores. Yet, devastating moments such as the 2008 U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

Wazawaka spent his early days on Exploit and other forums selling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that could knock websites offline for about USD $80 a day. In 2014, Wazawaka confided to another crime forum member via private message that he made good money stealing accounts from drug dealers on these marketplaces.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Attackers often use botnets to send out spam or phishing campaigns to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. In 2008, the Kraken botnet with 495,000 bots infected 10% of the Fortune 500 companies. By obtaining sensitive authentication access, attackers can break into the vendor network or user account.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Its operators seem to leverage vulnerabilities in external-facing servers while utilizing compromised account credentials to gain access and spread the malware further. Current analyses of HermeticWiper reveal that the malware is being delivered in highly-targeted attacks in Ukraine, Latvia, and Lithuania. But here, the stakes have changed.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Since 2008, antivirus and cybersecurity software testers AV-TEST have kept track of the number of newly-developed malware worldwide, totaling at nearly 1 billion as of September 2022. Today, malware is a common threat to the devices and data of anyone who uses the Internet. An August 2022 Statista report counted 2.8

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2022

Famously attributed to the SolarWinds and StellarParticle attack campaigns, this group has been operating since about 2008 and has targets ranging across most of the planet, including both the Democratic and Republican National Committees in the US. APT29 AKA CozyBear : This APT is associated with Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service.

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