Security Boulevard

AUGUST 1, 2022

Hybrid architectures had grown too complex to be able to provide adequate defense, resulting in new larger threat surfaces. The post This was H1 2022 – Part 1 – The Fight Against Cybercrime appeared first on Radware Blog. Cyber crime was too widespread and heavily resourced.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2022

The botnet was first discovered by Fortinet in March, the DDoS botnet targeted several routers and web servers by exploiting known vulnerabilities. The botnet targets multiple architectures, including arm, bsd, x64, and x86. The researchers attribute the botnet to the cybercrime group Keksec which focuses on DDoS-based extortion.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Access controls are the nexus of security and the expanding perimeter, and zero trust is the architecture that encompasses it. Zero trust is an all-inclusive security and privacy architecture. The network security perimeter is dynamically created and policy-based, and must be guarded by secure and highly managed access controls.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter ) The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 417 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In this blog, we will summarize the key findings of the report and offer actionable recommendations to mitigate these threats. DDoS attacks continue to be a persistent threat. Zero-trust architectures can increase the security posture of a system by implementing the “never trust, always verify” paradigm.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 20, 2022

There was a 10-fold increase in the number of samples of Mozi found in the wild, Mihai Maganu, a threat researcher at CrowdStrike, wrote in a blog post. The primary goal of all this malware is to compromise the devices and systems, pull them into a botnet and use them for distributed denial-of-services (DDoS) attacks, Maganu wrote.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2021

In this blog, we’ll take a look at some of the re-used Mirai modules , their functionality, and the Uptycs EDR detection capabilities of Gafgyt. HTTP flooding is a kind of DDoS attack in which the attacker sends a large number of HTTP requests to the targeted server to overwhelm it. HTTP flooding module. Figure 1: HTTP flooder module.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2019

The popular expert unixfreaxjp analyzed a new China ELF DDoS’er malware tracked as “Linux/DDoSMan” that evolves from the Elknot malware to deliver new ELF bot. The code seems inspired from multiple source code of China basis DDoS client, like Elknot. On the MMD blog. Non-Technical-Premise.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 11, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll explore the potential impact of IoT malware on the public sector — a story of innovation, risk, and the need for resilience. These families are a particularly formidable threat to the public sector — in the form of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2022

The modular architecture of the malware allows to extend its functionalities for multiple malicious purposes, including surveillance, reconnaissance, information theft, DDoS attacks, and arbitrary code execution. “All DCRat marketing and sales operations are done through the popular Russian hacking forum lolz[.]guru,

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Risk management is the method of identifying vulnerabilities to a company's data resources and architecture and implementing strategies to reduce that risk to tolerable levels. Ambitious information security experts serve as a critical part of cyber risk management.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 10, 2022

Traditional security methods such as firewalls, VPNs, and other perimeter-bound approaches were built for monolithic architectures and have not scaled well with virtualization. To remedy these issues, new capabilities must be sewn into our existing security architecture, or the architecture must be overhauled and rebuilt completely.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here is Erin’s Q&A column, which originally went live on OneRep’s well-done blog.) For the first expert interview on our blog, we welcomed Pulitzer-winning investigative reporter Byron V. OneRep provides a consumer service that scrubs your personal information from Google and dozens of privacy-breaching websites.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, February 2021. I wrote a blog post about my concerns given Linux is embedded everywhere, yet many of these systems are rarely, and even never updated with security updates.

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Energy and Utilities Ransomware DDOS Accountability 145

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-4034 , has “been hiding in plain sight” for more than 12 years and infects all versions of polkit’s pkexec since it was first developed in 2009, Bharat Jogi, director of vulnerability and threat research at Qualys, wrote in a blog post. Open Source in the Crosshairs.

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SecureList

APRIL 13, 2023

In this blog post, we provide excerpts from the recent reports that focus on uncommon infection methods and describe the associated malware. RapperBot then determines the processor architecture and infects the device. Recently we explored the topic of infection methods, including malvertising and malicious downloads.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

The first version spotted by TrendMicro includes a DDoS script that could be used by botmaster to set-up DDoS for-hire service offered on the dark web. Based on our findings, there are some similarities in both techniques and architectures with another cybercrime group, which appeared in the wild around 2012, most probably Romanian.

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 8, 2021

The classic distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) tactic is still in use. User and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) made significant strides as one way of determining trust in a zero-trust architecture. With 2020, protests came to the USA. There was a rise in web defacements and data theft. Well, it was. But then it wasn’t.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 6, 2023

This is the first of a series of consultant-written blogs around PCI DSS. Many organizations have multiple IAM schemes that they forget about when it comes to a robust compliance framework such as PCI DSS. GoDaddy, Network Solutions) DNS service (E.g., Akamai, CloudFront) Certificate providers (E.g.,

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McAfee

OCTOBER 14, 2019

As we enter a post-shadow IT world, security teams are now tasked with understanding and addressing a new set of challenges—those that can stem from a complex, modern-day cloud architecture. Frequently impacted by data breaches and DDoS attacks, cloud technology is no stranger to cyberthreats. appeared first on McAfee Blogs.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2018

According to the Trend Micro blog , “We found a new exploit using port 5555 after detecting two suspicious spikes in activity on July 9-10 and July 15. […] Our data shows that the first wave of network traffic came mainly from China and the US, while the second wave primarily involved Korea.”

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McAfee

AUGUST 3, 2021

With an increasing number of applications, workloads and data moving to the cloud, security practitioners today face a wide array of challenges while ensuring business continuity, including: How do I plan my architecture and deploy assets across multiple strategic locations to reduce network latency and maintain a high-quality user experience?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

However, there is a difference between the Mirai malware and the new malware variants using Go, including differences in the language in which it is written and the malware architectures. It also has different DDoS functionality. Mirai is a botnet that initiates its communication with its command and control (C&C).

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

Subsequently, DDoS attacks hit several government websites. While we were unable to obtain the same results by analyzing the CERT-UA samples, we subsequently identified a different WhiteBlackCrypt sample matching the WhisperKill architecture and sharing similar code.

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NetSpi Technical

MAY 25, 2023

Part 1, which can be found here , introduced the EVM call context and its architecture, followed by a deep dive into the non-persistent Memory section, function selection and visibility, and how contract control flow can be bypassed at the bytecode level. This is the second part of our series on Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) internals.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

That, of course, was not all, but it is an example of how someone -- anyone on the internet -- can take a photo or blog post or Yelp review from social media, or some other seemingly random open source item and tie it back to a crime. And we're never going to be good at blogging. Okay, you know, I that's just how I am.

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