Webroot

MARCH 9, 2021

In that spirit, we put together this blog post to explain the different hacker types and methods they use against us. Pretending to be someone else, these hackers manipulate their victims into opening doors to systems or unwittingly sharing passwords or banking details. appeared first on Webroot Blog.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2021

In a recent blog post , the researchers said the bad actors are looking to leverage a path traversal vulnerability that could affect millions of home routers and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices that use the same code base and are manufactured by at least 17 vendors. .” Tenable First to Disclose Flaw.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 20, 2022

Incidents of malware targeting Linux-based Internet of Things (IoT) devices jumped by more than a third in 2021, with three malware families the primary drivers behind the increase. 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.

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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 researchers attribute the botnet to the cybercrime group Keksec which focuses on DDoS-based extortion. The botnet targets multiple architectures, including arm, bsd, x64, and x86.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 11, 2024

The rapid proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) represents vast opportunities for the public sector. Today’s Internet of Things might as well be called the Internet of Threats. 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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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The Internet of Things (IoT) has come a long, long way since precocious students at Carnegie Melon University installed micro-switches inside of a Coca-Cola vending machine so they could remotely check on the temperature and availability of their favorite beverages. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.).

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

This post provides a retrospective analysis of Mirai — the infamous Internet-of-Things botnet that took down major websites via massive distributed denial-of-service using hundreds of thousands of compromised Internet-Of-Things devices. distributed Denial of service attacks (DDoS). OVH DDoS attack. Krebs on Security.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 6, 2018

I only wrote the one short blog post this week, but I spent a heap of time on the Twitters arguing with people instead so. It'll be a fun blog post ??. Egypt didn't just censor the internet. Don't think I've seen someone store both a password hash *and* the plain text of it in a data breach! that's something?

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2018

What do we do with a company that regularly pumps metric tons of virtual toxic sludge onto the Internet and yet refuses to clean up their act? “Although Xiongmai had seven months notice, they have not fixed any of the issues,” the researchers wrote in a blog post published today. no password). BLANK TO BANK.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

Please vote for Security Affairs ( [link] ) as the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS Vote for me in the sections where is reported Securityaffairs or my name Pierluigi Paganini Please nominate Security Affairs as your favorite blog.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

In November, Fortinet researchers discovered new samples of RapperBot used to build a botnet to launch Distributed DDoS attacks against game servers. ssh/authorized_keys, anyone with the corresponding private key can authenticate the SSH server without supplying a password. The bot runs a shell command to replace remote victims’ ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

For many years, Ika held a key position at one of Russia’s largest Internet service providers, and his (mostly glowing) reputation as a reliable provider of web hosting to the Russian cybercrime community gave him an encyclopedic knowledge about nearly every major player in that scene at the time.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

was used to register at least six domains, including a Russian business registered in Khoroshev’s name called tkaner.com , which is a blog about clothing and fabrics. used the password 225948. “Installing SpyEYE, ZeuS, any DDoS and spam admin panels,” NeroWolfe wrote. and admin@stairwell.ru “P.S. .

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Healthcare organizations are taking advantage of the many benefits of cloud and SaaS, accessing apps and data over the Internet. The zero-trust ecosystem protects against malware, ransomware, rogue security software, brute-force attacks, DOS and DDOS attacks, phishing, and rootkit attacks.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

At SiteLock, our mission is to help create a secure Internet for all users. Learn from the examples we provide in this blog as SiteLock President, Neill Feather, weighs in on why cybersecurity should matter to you. Take it from Rutgers University, which experienced six DDoS attacks in 2015 – one of which lasted as long as five days.

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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. A platform that started as a blogging tool has evolved into a globally renowned solution that makes website design and development more accessible and easier than ever.

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Cytelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Here is a blog about the dark web I had written. 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.

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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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Security Boulevard

MAY 30, 2022

Many legacy IoT devices have poor security settings, and some healthcare departments let these vulnerabilities slip by not segmenting network access or not changing default passwords, which are common among many IoT devices, and are very easy to find. Change all default passwords. Hackable pacemakers. How to secure healthcare IoT.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 28, 2021

The system developers weren’t overly preoccupied with security because they had no conception of something called the Internet. With no Internet in existence at the time, the systems were “air gapped” – meaning not connected to other systems or the outside world, for years. Their tactics went beyond the typical DDoS attack.

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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. When attackers cannot find your applications, they cannot attack them. Monitoring.

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BH Consulting

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It also found instances where virtual machines are exposed to the internet. MORE DDoS hasn’t gone away: ENISA outlines the landscape for this threat. MORE People’s password habits are getting better … slowly. Links we liked A fun new Yuletide game? It’s the SANS Holiday Hack Challenge.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

For instance, financially-motivated threat actors often plant in malicious URLs spoofing these events to fraudulent sites, hoping to maximize their chances of scamming naive internet users for a quick (illicit) profit. Nowadays, such pages are necessary to build a brand, generate new business, and resolve customer issues.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Kevin Holvoet of the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB) said Russian-sponsored attacks in recent months against Ukraine and other targets have included: DDoS attacks on government, military, finance and communications. Start treating the entire internet as hostile… because it is.” ” “Watch your egress.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Cybercriminals create specialized tools that scour the internet for certain platforms, like WordPress or Joomla, looking for common and publicized vulnerabilities. These types of vulnerabilities are frequently used to launch other attacks, such as DDoS and cross-site scripting attacks. Change user passwords to hijack accounts.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

We assume that those who called the numbers were asked to provide the login and password for the service that the scammers were imitating, or to pay for some diagnostics and troubleshooting services. Interestingly, the cybercriminals did not limit their threats to DDoS. Reputation, bitcoins or your life? Messengers targeted.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

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. Internal information sources include gathering data from your system through: * Log files. Incident response reports. Independent vendor research.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

In their blog, DarkSide’s creators heaped the blame on third-party operators. There appeared the new Qlocker family, which packs user files into a password-protected 7zip archive, plus our old friends ech0raix and AgeLocker began to gather steam. Detailed IoT threat statistics are published in our Q2 2021 DDoS report: [link].

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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. Which then I could configure to get on the internet, you know.

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