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2024 State of Cybersecurity: Reports of More Threats & Prioritization Issues

eSecurity Planet

Most organizations express confidence in their current status and budgets, but also expect to experience at least one data breach in 2024. NetScout: Observed 13,142,840 DDoS attacks, including: 104,216 video gaming enterprise attacks. 50,000 DDoS attacks on public domain name service (DNS) resolvers.

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Securing Public Sector Against IoT Malware in 2024

Security Boulevard

These families are a particularly formidable threat to the public sector — in the form of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. For instance, threat actors can weaponize IoT botnets to execute DDoS attacks targeting essential services and government websites. Adding urgency to this imperative for U.S.

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Vulnerability Recap 5/27/24 – Google, Microsoft & GitLab Fixes

eSecurity Planet

May 20, 2024 Critical QNAP NAS Vulnerability Exposes Devices to RCE Type of vulnerability: Stack buffer overflow. The problem: WatchTowr Labs discovered a severe stack buffer overflow vulnerability ( CVE-2024-27130 ) in QNAP’s NAS operating system QTS. To mitigate the issue, immediately update to the newest version.

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Advanced threat predictions for 2024

SecureList

In this article, we will review the past year’s trends to see which of our 2023 predictions have come true, and try to predict what is to come in 2024. Verdict: prediction not fulfilled ❌ APT predictions for 2024 Now, let us take a look at a possible future of the advanced persistent threat landscape.

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Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

Krebs on Security

Shortly after that, those same servers came under a sustained distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Chaput said whoever was behind the DDoS was definitely not using point-and-click DDoS tools, like a booter or stresser service. “On Twitter, more spam and crypto scam.”

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