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Security Affairs newsletter Round 248

Security Affairs

Citrix releases permanent fixes for CVE-2019-19781 flaw in ADC 11.1 Chinese hackers exploited a Trend Micro antivirus zero-day used in Mitsubishi Electric hack. For the second time in a few days, Greek Government websites hit by DDoS attacks. Hackers patch Citrix servers to deploy their own backdoor.

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Attacks against game companies are up. But why?

SC Magazine

This week, cybersecurity firm Akamai said they have observed more than 246 million web application attacks levied against the gaming industry between 2019 and 2020. That represents a 340% increase year-over-year, a 415% increase since 2018 and accounted for about 4% of the more than 6.3

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 210 – News of the week

Security Affairs

A new DDoS technique abuses HTML5 Hyperlink Audit Ping in massive attacks. Locked Shields 2019 – Chapeau, France wins Cyber Defence Exercise. CVE-2019-0803 Windows flaw exploited to deliver PowerShell Backdoor. Avast, Avira, Sophos and other antivirus solutions show problems after.

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Combatting ransomware: a holistic approach

IT Security Guru

Our own research report, the State of Encrypted Attacks Report 2020 , found that there had been a 500 per cent rise in ransomware compared to 2019. It’s clear then that ransomware didn’t reach its zenith with WannaCry back in 2017 but remains a disruptive and profitable threat to business operations.

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Spam and phishing in 2020

SecureList

The email antivirus was triggered most frequently by email messages containing members of the Trojan.Win32.Agentb A company was told to transfer a certain amount to a Bitcoin wallet to prevent a DDoS attack that the cybercriminals threatened to unleash upon it. Interestingly, the cybercriminals did not limit their threats to DDoS.

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Protecting Industrial Control Systems Against Cyberattacks – Part 1

Security Boulevard

This renders the attacks undetectable and able to bypass conventional security solutions such as EDR, antivirus and other traditional security lines of defense. BlackEnergy is a Trojan capable of distributed denial of service (DDoS), cyber espionage and information destruction attacks. Their tactics went beyond the typical DDoS attack.

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How Did Authorities Identify the Alleged Lockbit Boss?

Krebs on Security

“Installing SpyEYE, ZeuS, any DDoS and spam admin panels,” NeroWolfe wrote. The indictment against Khoroshev says he used the hacker nickname Putinkrab , and Intel 471 says this corresponds to a username that was first registered across three major Russian cybercrime forums in early 2019. “P.S. Image: Ke-la.com.