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Russian Bank VTB Is Currently Under the Largest Cyber Attack in Its History

Heimadal Security

VTB Bank, Russia’s second-largest financial institution, stated that it is experiencing the biggest cyberattack in its history after a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack caused its website and mobile apps to go down.

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Cyber Threats to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022

Digital Shadows

After triaging said incidents to remove false positives, we collected the true positive incidents to analyze them and better comprehend how attackers were targeting the Qatar 2022 World Cup. To tweak the original domain, the attackers may substitute alphanumeric characters (goggle[.]com com instead of google[.]com), com, for example).

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MY TAKE: Why companies and consumers must collaborate to stop the plundering of IoT systems

The Last Watchdog

Related: Companies sustain damage from IoT attacks That was back in 1982. And yet our pervasive deployment of IoT systems has also vastly expanded the cyber attack surface of business networks, especially in just the past few years. And now Covid-19 is having a multiplier effect on these rising IoT exposures. A lot is at stake.

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Why Healthcare IoT Requires Strong Machine Identity Management

Security Boulevard

The key advantages of having IoT in healthcare include: Medical mobility: IoT helps in tracking and getting alerts when any critical change in a patient's parameter occurs, aiding in locating and providing direct assistance in real-time. Therapists can also leverage the call functionality of the app and call the patient if necessary.

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Increasing Your Business’s Cyber Threat Intelligence

SiteLock

You or your IT security department should also keep up to date on the latest security threats from external sources like: * Security blogs, such as Schneier on Security and Krebs on Security. Websites experience an average of 60 attacks per day on average, according to SiteLock data. Incident response reports. It’s not so simple.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 234

Security Affairs

Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. A new critical flaw in Exim exposes email servers to remote attacks. Irans oil minister orders ‘Full Alert for oil sector on against attacks. Once again thank you!

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Protecting Industrial Control Systems Against Cyberattacks – Part 1

Security Boulevard

Networks can also be easily breached by social engineering, password theft, or tainted USBs, as in the Stuxnet attack. . . The Dangers of ICS Memory-Based Attacks. The class of cyberattacks aimed at Industry Control Systems (ICS) networks is particularly dangerous because the attack takes place in the system’s runtime memory.