Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The report follows the Internet Organized Crime Assessment (IOCTA), Europol’s assessment of the cybercrime landscape and how it has changed over the last 24 months. The Russian conflict with Ukraine led to a significant boost in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against EU targets. Create offsite, offline backups.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Vendor reports note huge volume of attacks on local and public infrastructure, such as: CrowdStrike: Monitored hacktivist and nation-state distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks related to the Israli-Palestinian conflict, including against a US airport. 50,000 DDoS attacks on public domain name service (DNS) resolvers.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Margaret’s Health is the first hospital to cite a cyberattack as a reason for its closure A database containing data of +8.9

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Hundreds of millions of websites on the internet today rely on the content management system WordPress. Work in tandem with your hosting provider to leverage managed WordPress specialty hosting assistance, enquiring about their incumbent technologies, proactive monitoring, malware detection, backups, and DDoS mitigation, among others.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Budding cybercriminals now only need a rudimentary understanding of cybersecurity, access to the internet, and a few dollars in their pocket to initiate an attack. Cybercriminals can use these botnets to send spam, conduct DDoS attacks, or spread malware. Backup and Recovery: Regularly back up critical data and verify backups.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, in 2010 Spamdot and its spam affiliate program Spamit were hacked, and its user database shows Sal and Icamis often accessed the forum from the same Internet address — usually from Cherepovets , an industrial town situated approximately 230 miles north of Moscow. And there were many good reasons to support this conclusion.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

That means that besides encrypting files, the gang also threaten to publish the stolen data on a so-called “leak site”, and at times, threaten their victims with DDoS attacks. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers. Detect intrusions.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Public clouds enable multiple businesses to share resources from a shared pool over the internet. DDoS Attacks How they occur: Distributed Denial of Service ( DDoS ) attacks overload cloud and network systems, interrupting access and triggering service disruptions.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 18, 2023

In today’s digital age, profit-making organizations across industries are increasingly reliant on technology and the internet to conduct their operations. While this technological advancement brings numerous benefits, it also exposes businesses to various cybersecurity risks.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

There are dozens of Linux malware families out there today threatening SMBs with anything from ransomware to DDoS attacks. QNAPCrypt exploits a vulnerability in QNAP NAS running HBS 3 (Hybrid Backup Sync) to allow remote attackers to log in to a device. Cloud Snooper. How it works. encrypt extension being appended to affected files.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 26, 2023

Hacktivist and DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks will likely continue due to geopolitical tensions and ideological motives. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers. Hacktivists in the EU primarily targeted airports, railways, and transport authorities.

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SiteLock

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

According to the International Data Corporation, by 2025 nearly 56 billion devices will be connected to the internet throughout the world. Meanwhile, Cisco estimates that the number of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks will nearly double from 7.8 million in 2018 to 15.4 million in 2023.

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Responsible Cyber

APRIL 8, 2020

The Internet of Things (IoT) is undeniably the future of technology. Businesses must also ensure they have secure backups of their critical data. Hence, since ransomware locks down files permanently (unless businesses want to cough up the ransom) backups are a crucial safeguard to recover from the hack. DDoS Attacks.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2022

The linked article focuses on misconfiguration, phishing issues, limiting data share, and the ever-present Internet of Things. So-called “cold wallets” are typically offline hardware devices, with no internet capability and the ability to manage only a few types of digital currency. Below, we dig into a few of those.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 10, 2021

Or your device can be used in DDoS or click-fraud campaigns. This performs a regular, off-site backup. The company’s advice is also valid for any other Internet-facing NAS devices. Botnets can be used to spread other malware like cryptojackers and ransomware.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Zscaler uniquely protects against these attacks by: Minimizing your attack surface and making apps invisible: Zscaler Private Access (ZPA) hides your internal apps behind our cloud proxy-based zero trust platform, making them invisible to the internet. Backup and recovery. SOC response playbooks & IR plans.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2022

” Rosneft was already hit by Anonymous in the past, the website of Rosneft’s international was blocked by a massive DDoS attack the end of February. . But last Friday, the very stable FTP connection broke down because their entire system gave up in the evening and suddenly there was no internet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 18, 2022

The latest Sysrv variant scans the Internet for web servers that have security holes offering opportunities such as path traversal, remote file disclosure, and arbitrary file download bugs. Another strategy to looks at is whether all the servers that are at risk need to be Internet-facing. And around 95% of web servers run on Linux.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 9, 2022

Either way, this ransomware-for-hire has been around far longer (in internet terms) than the bulletin may have some believe, having been first seen in September 2021. The ransomware targets virtual machines and snapshots, looking to escape containers, encrypt any possible persistence, and wipe out backups that weren’t carefully archived.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 19, 2023

RADIUS and TACACS+ apply to specific types of endpoints, but the ZTNA-as-a-Service product works for all kinds of devices, including Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) endpoints, Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, operations technology (OT), industrial control systems (ICS), and industrial IoT (IIoT).

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

With cyberattacks and data breaches on the rise, it's become especially important for brands to ensure their assets are sufficiently safeguarded, particularly as more of their infrastructure migrates to support remote systems to cloud-based platforms and their services become more reliant on the internet.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

NEROWOLFE A search on the ICQ number 669316 at Intel 471 shows that in April 2011, a user by the name NeroWolfe joined the Russian cybercrime forum Zloy using the email address d.horoshev@gmail.com , and from an Internet address in Voronezh, RU. “Installing SpyEYE, ZeuS, any DDoS and spam admin panels,” NeroWolfe wrote.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Endpoint: Enables access for human users and computer services and commonly includes PCs, laptops, Internet of Things (IoT), and operational technology (OT). Internet of Things (IoT) security: Encompasses a variety of tools and techniques to secure IoT, operations technology (OT), and other similar categories of endpoints.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

This dollar amount is scary enough, but we also need to add on the consequences of other incidents such as business email compromise (BEC) , distributed denial of service (DDoS) , or even something as mundane as severed internet access. The assignment of backup resources will also be useful as a contingency.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Today, malware is a common threat to the devices and data of anyone who uses the Internet. Ransomware is one of the most virulent forms of malware on the modern Internet. To apply more pressure, the attacker might also encrypt backup files to render them inaccessible. Unusually high network activity.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Networks connect devices to each other so that users can access assets such as applications, data, or even other networks such as the internet. Some applications, cloud infrastructure, networking equipment, or Internet of Things (IoT) devices may require more sophisticated ITAM or additional tools to detect them.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

is the hardware that connects an organization’s devices, such as routers, servers, computers, mobile devices and internet of things (IoT) devices. Distributed denial of service (DDoS) prevention: Tools that protect the site from crashing under the strain of DDoS attacks. The network. The operating system.

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Cytelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

please elaborate on that ; The dark web, also known as the deep web or darknet, is a part of the internet that is not indexed by search engines and can only be accessed using specialized software such as Tor. Here is a blog about the dark web I had written.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Botnets : Networks of compromised computers are controlled by a central attacker and used for various malicious activities such as launching coordinated distributed denial of service ( DDoS ) attacks, providing a staging point for attacks on other victims, or distributing spam.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The number of sensors and smart devices connected to the internet is exponentially rising, which are the 5 Major Vulnerabilities for IoT devices. Unfortunately, at that moment, there were over 300,000 of those cameras connected to the internet. Nowadays, malware is an indispensable part of the internet (even if we do not like it).

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2024

Employ robust password management techniques, two-factor authentication (2FA), and regular backups of essential data. These issues affect over 91,000 exposed machines, putting them at risk of DDoS assaults, account theft, and malware infestations. In addition to securing internal assets, you also need to ensure SaaS data is protected.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 2, 2022

Multiple-extortion attacks that utilize data theft, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, customer communications, and more as layered extortion tactics to increase ransom payouts. Here are some best practices recommendations to safeguard your organization against ransomware: Get your applications off of the internet.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Application Security Issues and Risks With the rise of cloud computing, edge computing, mobile devices, and the Internet of Things (IoT), there are more attack surfaces than ever for cybercriminals to exploit.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2022

Internet scammers are cunning criminals. Hence, protecting your firm from internet scams as well as bot attacks necessitates a coherent layer of safety across all of your end nodes — your mobile app, internet site, and APIs all need to be protected at the very same level. . Authentication frauds.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Security services and tools include anti-DDoS , SOCaaS , web application firewalls (WAF), data encryption , and more. From a GUI enterprise manager to advanced logical replication, backup and recovery, and a migration toolkit, EDB is a go-to vendor for all Postgre database administrators. Database Technical Security.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Attackers often use botnets to send out spam or phishing campaigns to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. with no internet. Targeting victims over the phone, vishing is the use of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), technical jargon, and ID spoofing to trick a caller into revealing sensitive information.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Recognizing the evolution in both cybersecurity and customer needs, Barracuda began to develop new capabilities as well as acquire complementary companies to deliver technology solutions for application security, cloud backups, firewalls, and more.

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