The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 7, 2023

People suddenly getting a lot of spam emails may be the target of a sophisticated cyber-attack. It may also be a part of a more targeted attack. Take the WhatsApp data breach of 2019, where hackers got the personal data of 1.5 We all get spam emails, and while it’s annoying, it’s not usually anything to worry about.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Multiple DDoS attacks disrupt online classes. The district says distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks kept knocking online classes offline. Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) has been the target of more than a dozen of these types of attacks since the 2020-2021 school year began.".

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SC Magazine

MARCH 3, 2021

The research aims to raise awareness and visibility of how cyber attackers are targeting the black community, as well as offer practical recommendations to help African Americans combat the threats they face as a result of systemic racism. DDoS attacks are an issue. Cyberattacks increase after major racial incidents.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

And this is just one recent example of this type of cyber attack. Financial industry targeted the most by credential stuffing attacks. From 2017 to 2019, the FBI says credential stuffing attacks were the most common type of attack against the financial sector, accounting for 41% of total incidents.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Sometimes when you are down in the cyber attack trees defending your organization, it can be tough to see the cyber threat forest. And now we have brand new research coming from the EU which unpacks the top cyber threats as they stand now. Web-based Attacks. Web Application Attacks. Identity Theft.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2019

Millions of Exim mail servers vulnerable to cyber attacks. CVE-2019-12735 – opening a specially crafted file in Vim or Neovim Editor could compromise your Linux system. CVE-2019-2725 Oracle WebLogic flaw exploited in cryptojacking campaign. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for June 2019 fix 88 flaws.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

ObliqueRAT, a new malware employed in attacks on government targets in Southeast Asia. FireEye Mandiant M-Trends 2020 report: 500+ new Malware strains in 2019. New Cyber Attack Campaign Leverages the COVID-19 Infodemic. Silence Hacking Crew threatens Australian banks of DDoS attacks.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Ohio Election Day cyber attack attempt traced Russian-Owned Company. China used the Great Cannon DDoS Tool against forum used by Hong Kong protestors. CyrusOne, one of the major US data center provider, hit by ransomware attack. The evolutions of APT28 attacks. Twitter account of Huawei Mobile Brazil hacked.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2018

US ballistic missile defense systems (BMDS) open to cyber attacks. 5 IoT Security Predictions for 2019. US DoJ indicts Chinese hackers over state-sponsored cyber espionage. Law enforcement take down 15 DDoS-for-Hire services. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy. Once again thank you!

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

According to Unitrends’ 2019 cloud storage research, 62% of respondents had successfully recovered data from the cloud. DDoS Attacks DDoS attacks flood cloud services with traffic, overwhelming capacity and causing service outages.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2019

A Cobalt Strike flaw exposed attackers infrastructure. · The operator of DDoS-for-hire service pleads guilty. · Annual RSA Conference Exclusive 2019 Edition of Cyber Defense Magazine is arrived. Threat actors using FrameworkPOS malware in POS attacks. SLUB Backdoor leverages GitHub and Slack in targeted attacks.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

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. billion attacks tracked by the company across different countries. Two other incidents this month highlight how even industry titans are getting battered.

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Ransomware an ongoing threat to industry as crime gangs organise Malware-based cyber-attacks are the most prominent threat to industry, Europol says. A companion to Europol’s IOCTA 2023 report , it digs deeper into malware – ransomware in particular – and DDoS attacks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2020

Austria’s foreign ministry was the victim of a cyber-attack that is suspected to have been conducted by a foreign state due to its level of sophistication. ” Media pointed out that the attack took place on the same day Austria’s Green party backed forming a coalition with conservatives. Major cyber ??attacks

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 30, 2021

Is your organization prepared to mitigate Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against mission-critical cloud-based applications? A DDoS attack is a cyber attack that uses bots to flood the targeted server or application with junk traffic, exhausting its resources and disrupting service for real human users.

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BH Consulting

DECEMBER 11, 2023

per cent) from 2022 and a huge leap since 2019, when there were an estimated 2.8 MORE DDoS hasn’t gone away: ENISA outlines the landscape for this threat. MORE Enough with the omerta: it’s time to start talking about cyber attacks. ISC2 figures estimate the global workforce in the field is 5.5 It’s up 440,000 (8.7

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2019

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. CVE-2019-0803 Windows flaw exploited to deliver PowerShell Backdoor. Code execution – Evernote.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Cyber attacks against the company aren’t the only relevant threat, however. For instance, malicious actors can use malware to enslave exposed IoT devices into a botnet and launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. But that’s not digital attackers’ primary motivation for targeting medical IoT-or IoMT.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 28, 2021

BlackEnergy is a Trojan capable of distributed denial of service (DDoS), cyber espionage and information destruction attacks. A few years ago, a group of attackers used the Trojan to deploy SCADA-related plugins against victims in energy and ICS/SCADA networks in Ukraine and around the world. Sandworm.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

One of the most common tactics used by threat actors when impersonating executives is business email compromise (BEC), a method where an email or social media message coming from a fake VIP profile deceives employees to commit a certain action (usually transferring money to an attacker-controlled bank account).

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

If the victim organization is slow to pay up, even though its files are encrypted and some of its confidential data has been stolen, the attackers additionally threaten to carry out a DDoS attack. In addition to DDoS attacks, it has added spam and calls to clients and partners of the victim company to its toolbox.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2019

DISCLOSURE OF COMPANY FACILITATING MASSIVE CYBER ATTACKS AGAINST MORE THAN 20 REGIME CRITICAL PHILIPPINE WEBSITES DISCLOSURE OF COMPANY FACILITATING MASSIVE CYBER ATTACKS AGAINST MORE THAN 20 REGIME CRITICAL PHILIPPINE WEBSITES. Attacks escalated and included more websites, a total of 20 organizations, in January 2019.

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Spinone

MAY 8, 2020

What Is a Cyber Attack? A cyber attack refers to a type of attack that is carried out by cybercriminals using a computer or group of computers to attack another computer, group of computers, or network. Cyber attacks target data in one way or another. Who are behind cyber attacks?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Massive DDoS attack brought down 25% Iranian Internet connectivity. The number of cyber attacks on Saudi Aramco is increasing. A cyber-attack on major banks could trigger a liquidity crisis, ECB President Christine Lagarde warns. OT attacks increased by over 2000 percent in 2019, IBM reports.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 6, 2023

For example, DDoS attacks and unauthorized encryption (e.g. ransomware) were not a “data breach" unless attackers were able to view or copy/ transmit data out of the environment. Retrieved from: '[link] [4] National Institute of Standards and Technology (2019) Glossary of Key Information Security Terms. Click to DOWNLOAD!

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 7, 2023

For example, DDoS attacks and unauthorized encryption (e.g. ransomware) were not a “data breach" unless attackers were able to view or copy/ transmit data out of the environment. Retrieved from: '[link] [4] National Institute of Standards and Technology (2019) Glossary of Key Information Security Terms.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

From mining cryptocurrency to launching DDoS attacks against networks, there are countless ways in which malware can access and utilize victim’s computers and data. They can be used to launch spam emails and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, leveraging hundreds of thousands of compromised computers.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Cybersecurity professionals and people under cyber attack may be more discrete in their searches and opt for search engines like DuckDuckGo instead of Google. Retrieved from: '[link] [4] National Institute of Standards and Technology (2019) Glossary of Key Information Security Terms. 2018) "Causes of Death".

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2021

Some instructive fresh intelligence about how cyber attacks continue to saturate the Internet comes to us from Akamai Technologies. As a leading global content delivery network (CDN), Akamai has a birdseye view of what is coursing through cyber space moment-by-moment. The world is ‘always-on’ and so are the attackers.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Cybersecurity professionals and people under cyber attack may be more discrete in their searches and opt for search engines like DuckDuckGo. Retrieved from: '[link] [3] National Institute of Standards and Technology (2019) Glossary of Key Information Security Terms. Retrieved from: ‘[link] [2] Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

From mining cryptocurrency to launching DDoS attacks against networks, there are countless ways in which malware can access and utilize victim’s computers and data. They can be used to launch spam emails and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, leveraging hundreds of thousands of compromised computers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 14, 2021

The development of the connected car and, ultimately, autonomous vehicle will depend both on reliable connectivity and a strong cybersecurity architecture, to avoid such connectivity becoming the gateway to cyber-attacks. billion by 2025, up from 10 million at the end of 2019. IoT security will remain a top priority.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Cybersecurity professionals and people under cyber attack may be more discrete in their searches and opt for search engines like DuckDuckGo instead of Google. Retrieved from: '[link] [4] National Institute of Standards and Technology (2019) Glossary of Key Information Security Terms. 2018) "Causes of Death".

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The Security Ledger

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Three years after the Mirai botnet launched some of the biggest denial of service attacks ever seen, DDoS is a bigger problem and ever. Three years after the Mirai botnet launched some of the biggest denial of service attacks ever seen, DDoS is a bigger problem and ever. Read the whole entry. »

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

The new ransomware dubbed JCry (extension used to rename encrypted files.jcry ) is part of the OpIsrael 2019 — an annual coordinated cyber attack against the Israeli government and private websites created with the stated goal of “erasing Israel from the Internet” in protest against the Israeli government’s conduct in the Israel-Palestine conflict.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In July 2001, the Code Red Worm attempted to subject the entire Internet to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Eventually, the infected computers were all directed to attempt a DDoS specifically on whitehouse.gov, though the White House managed to sidestep the assault. Welcome to [link] Hacked By Chinese!”.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

The new ransomware dubbed JCry (extension used to rename encrypted files.jcry ) is part of the OpIsrael 2019 — an annual coordinated cyber attack against the Israeli government and private websites created with the stated goal of “erasing Israel from the Internet” in protest against the Israeli government’s conduct in the Israel-Palestine conflict.

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