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Millions of home routers on Mirai Botnet Radar

CyberSecurity Insiders

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 newsletter Round 376 by Pierluigi Paganini

Security Affairs

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. and Blackmatter ransomware U.S.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 420 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

Security Affairs

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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Reassessing cyberwarfare. Lessons learned in 2022

SecureList

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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Cyber Threats to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022

Digital Shadows

Impersonating domains are a thorny problem for most brands, as our 2021 research proved, when we detected an average of 1,100 impersonating domains and subdomains per year per Digital Shadows client. Since then, several pro-Russian and pro-Ukraine hacktivist groups have conducted a series of cyber attacks to disrupt their adversaries.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 384

Security Affairs

billion Cisco confirms that data leaked by the Yanluowang ransomware gang were stolen from its systems Some firmware bugs in HP business devices are yet to be fixed Albania was hit by a new cyberattack and blames Iran Iran-linked APT42 is behind over 30 espionage attacks. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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What is Malware? Definition, Purpose & Common Protections

eSecurity Planet

A report from IBM claims that 21% of all cyber attacks the company remediated in 2021 were ransomware, making it the most common type of attack in the report. Firmware rootkits are also known as “hardware rootkits.”. Ransomware is one of the most virulent forms of malware on the modern Internet.

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