CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

London based Giant Group has confirmed that its IT infrastructure was suffering repercussions gained through a cyber attack on September 24th,2021 and all its phone, email and other payroll related servers were facing digital disruption.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 1, 2022

Getting deep into the details, in March 2021, KA-SAT Satellite was bought from its previous owner, Eutelsat, by Viasat. The post Russia now launches cyber attacks on Satellites appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

A study carried out by Trend Micro has revealed that there are multiple possibilities for the automated cars to be targeted by Cyber Attacks. Trend Micro says that most of the Intelligent Transportation systems (ITS) of connected cars could be susceptible to DdoS attacks launched by state funded actors.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 28, 2022

Akamai, which offers one of the largest Content Delivery Networks in the whole of America, has disclosed that it has blocked the world’s largest DDoS attack that took place in a company operating in Eastern Europe. Well, the reason for the attack hasn’t been disclosed. requests per second.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Just as the emergence of COVID-19 led to changes in how threat actors launched attacks, the return to work and school that began in the second half of 2021 (before Omicron reared its ugly head in November) resulted in a number of changes on the part of cyber attackers. To read this article in full, please click here

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2022

Taiwan government websites were temporarily forced offline by cyber attacks during the visit to Taipei of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Major Taiwan government websites were temporarily forced offline by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks attacks during the visit to Taipei of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A Cyber Attack that hit servers of several banking institutions of New Zealand(NZ) has disrupted the online services for over a week now. And the bank issued an apology for the service disruption and disclosed on its Facebook page that they were back by Sunday afternoon, i.e. September 12th,2021.

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The Hacker News

JULY 2, 2021

Cybersecurity researchers on Thursday revealed details about a new Mirai-inspired botnet called "mirai_ptea" that leverages an undisclosed vulnerability in digital video recorders (DVR) provided by KGUARD to propagate and carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2022

Cisco Talos researchers have uncovered a malware campaign targeting Ukraine’s IT Army , threat actors are using infostealer malware mimicking a DDoS tool called the “Liberator.” A Telegram channel was used to coordinate the efforts and plan the cyber-attacks that will be conducted by the IT Army. 35) on port 6666.

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Bleeping Computer

JANUARY 26, 2022

The Nobel Foundation and the Norwegian Nobel Institute have disclosed a cyber-attack that unfolded during the award ceremony on December 10, 2021. [.].

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2022

This isn’t the first time that Puerto Rico was hit by a cyber attack in recent years. In March 2021, Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) power utility confirmed early this week that it has been hacked over the weekend. It is still unclear whether the fire and DDoS attack are connected.

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

According to Kaspersky Security Network, in Q1 2021: Kaspersky solutions blocked 2,023,556,082 attacks launched from online resources across the globe. At the end of last year, the number of users attacked by malware designed to steal money from bank accounts gradually decreased, a trend that continued in Q1 2021.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

This follows the DDoS attacks against several Ukrainian websites earlier today 1/n — ESET research (@ESETresearch) February 23, 2022. New #wiper malware being used in attacks on #Ukraine 1bc44eef75779e3ca1eefb8ff5a64807dbc942b1e4a2672d77b9f6928d292591 — Threat Intelligence (@threatintel) February 23, 2022.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 13, 2021

According to a research carried out by Maryland based Cybersecurity firm Tenable, hackers are targeting millions of home routers to add them to the Mirai botnet radar that is used to launch DDoS Cyber attack campaigns.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

The popular collective Anonymous declared war on Russia for the illegitimate invasion of Ukraine and announced a series of cyber attacks calling to action its members. February 24 – Data wiper attacks on Ukraine were planned at least in November and used ransomware as decoy. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2020

. “The FBI, CISA, and MS-ISAC assess malicious cyber actors are targeting kindergarten through twelfth grade (K-12) educational institutions, leading to ransomware attacks, the theft of data, and the disruption of distance learning services. ” “ reads the alert issued by CISA. ” states the alert.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Germany’s Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) arrested an individual (24) suspected of having stolen €4,000,000 from internet users via phishing attacks along with a two accomplices who are suspected. Investigators believe the gang relied on DDoS-for-hire services provided by other cybercriminals. ” continues the announcement.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Healthcare Company UHS a Victim of Major Cyber Attack. Fortune 500 healthcare provider Universal Health Services (UHS) appears to be the victim of a major ransomware attack. #3. And was it a DDoS Attack? Was it a DDoS attack against the United States? What Happened Yesterday with T-Mobile?

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2022

While the impact of these destructive cyber-attacks paled in comparison to the effects of the kinetic attacks taking place at the same time, it should be noted that this capability could in theory be directed against any country outside of the context of an armed conflict and under the pretense of traditional cybercrime activity.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2021

million customers Adobe addresses two critical vulnerabilities in Photoshop Hamburg’s data protection agency (DPA) states that using Zoom violates GDPR Kalay cloud platform flaw exposes millions of IoT devices to hack Fortinet FortiWeb OS Command Injection allows takeover servers remotely 1.9

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

According to the security firm, the infections followed the DDoS attacks against several Ukrainian websites, including Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cabinet of Ministers, and Rada. New information shared by Symantec on the data wiper attacks revealed that, in some cases, threat actors used a GoLang-based ransomware decoy. .”

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2022

increased rewards for info on North Korea-linked threat actors to $10 million Threat actors leverages DLL-SideLoading to spread Qakbot malware Zero Day attacks target online stores using PrestaShop? and Blackmatter ransomware U.S. and Blackmatter ransomware U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 25, 2022

Cyber-attacks continue to make headlines, and wreak havoc for organizations, with no sign of abating. Having spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, threats such as malware, ransomware, and DDoS attacks continue to accelerate. The war in Ukraine has seen likely state-sponsored attacks using these types of DDoS attacks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2022

According to Symantec, the WhisperGate wiper may have been employed in attacks against unknown victims since at least October 2021. THREAD: Latest on #WhisperGate wiper attacks. Kitsoft’s infrastructure was also damaged during the cyber attack.” Other unconfirmed samples may date even earlier. [1/4}

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2021

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2021

Are the DDoS and the fire linked?

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2023

X Master Password Dumper (CVE-2023-32784) Malware RapperBot DDoS Botnet Expands into Cryptojacking Newly identified RA Group compromises companies in U.S. X Master Password Dumper (CVE-2023-32784) Malware RapperBot DDoS Botnet Expands into Cryptojacking Newly identified RA Group compromises companies in U.S.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 5, 2022

Threat Actors: Denial of Service Attacks by Pro-Russian Group KILLNET Temporarily Disrupts Lithuanian Internet Services. Pro-Russian group KILLNET said the attacks were in retaliation for Lithuania's ban of EU-sanctioned goods coming from Russia across its territory to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. [4] Twitter, Jun. 28, 2022).

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

The rising adoption of NVMe over fabrics in external business storage arrays ( 30% by 2025 , up from less than 5% in 2021 ) suggests a trend toward high-performance storage solutions. DDoS Attacks DDoS attacks flood cloud services with traffic, overwhelming capacity and causing service outages.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

And that (b) we are also likely to see a steep increase in DDoS extortion campaigns as the Cyberwar in Ukraine leads to all-time-high levels of DDoS attacks. Dr.Mohamed Al Kuwaiti , UAE Cyber Security Council. DDOS Botnets. Irena Yordanova, Product Manager Software, Polycomp Ltd. Ransomware as a service (RaaS).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2022

from the Lympo NTF platform.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

IoT devices have a history of being the targets of botnet recruitment and engines for distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The human factor challenge While infrastructure compromise by external actors is the leading type of cyber-attack, potential human errors play an equally important concern.

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SiteLock

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In fact, according to Hiscox’s 2021 Cyber Readiness Report , the amount spent on cybersecurity in 2020 by small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) increased from $551 million to a staggering $925 million. What are cyber criminals after? I’m too small to be hacked.”

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

And yet our pervasive deployment of IoT systems has also vastly expanded the cyber attack surface of business networks, especially in just the past few years. IoT-enabled scams and hacks quickly ramped up to a high level – and can be expected to accelerate through 2021 and beyond. This has brought us many benefits.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Malware, social engineering , and cyber attacks. For example, a DDoS attack on a server intrudes in an esports match. For example, cyber espionage undermines the economy of a country. For example, a break of an internet router causes downtime in the work of an entire office. By target: Individual. Organization.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 28, 2023

Health providers are a tempting target for cyber attackers, particularly with ransomware, as they combine deeply personal information and they are often perceived as having weaker security infrastructure, while any disruption can be life threatening.

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