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

eSecurity Planet

50,000 DDoS attacks on public domain name service (DNS) resolvers. 553% increase in DNS Flood attacks from 1H 2020 to 2H 2023. DDoS attacks on single networks or websites render them unavailable, but DDoS attacks on DNS resolvers bring down all networks and websites using that DNS resource.

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Network Protection: How to Secure a Network

eSecurity Planet

Application Access: A retail website can make more requests than human users on any resource. Similarly, spoofed domain name system (DNS) and IP addresses can redirect users from legitimate connections to dangerous and malicious websites. API calls on related applications (shopping carts, databases, etc.)

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Group-IB presents its annual report on global threats to stability in cyberspace

Security Affairs

The past months have shown that the most dangerous hacks involved DNS hijacking, which helped attackers manipulate DNS records for MITM attacks. In the past year, cybersecurity specialists detected four new POS Trojans, used mainly in attacks on retailers in the United States. million to 43.8

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Top Secure Email Gateway Solutions for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Anti-evasion engines to uncover any attempt to hide or conceal malicious intent, including algorithms and architecture that allow scanning of all content in various forms and methods to ensure that the malicious intent is discovered. Customers include more than half of the Fortune 100, top banks, global retailers, and research universities.

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Trickbot module descriptions

SecureList

It retrieves the DNS names of all the directory trees in the local computer’s forest. It also gets a full process list and system information snapshot (OS Architecture / ProductType / Version / Build / InstalationDate / LastBootUpTime / SerialNumber / User / Organization / TotalPhysicalMemory). rdpscanDll32. vpnDll32.

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Security Ledger Podcast: Security Automation Is (And Isn't) The Future Of InfoSec

ForAllSecure

Machine learning algorithms are already being used in transportation to ease road congestion, in healthcare to spot medical errors and improve patient care and in retail to improve the customer shopping experience. For example, they may think, "Hey, the user's going to give me an input and it's only going to be as long as maybe a DNS record."

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Security Ledger Podcast: Security Automation Is (And Isn't) The Future Of InfoSec

ForAllSecure

Machine learning algorithms are already being used in transportation to ease road congestion, in healthcare to spot medical errors and improve patient care and in retail to improve the customer shopping experience. For example, they may think, "Hey, the user's going to give me an input and it's only going to be as long as maybe a DNS record."

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