Heimadal Security

DECEMBER 7, 2022

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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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2023

The French Senate’s website was taken offline by a DDoS attack launched by the pro-Russian hacker group NoName. The pro-Russia hacker group NoName is claiming responsibility for a DDoS attack that took the website of the French Senate offline. We apologize for the inconvenience caused.”

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The Top Cybersecurity Blogs We're Reading in 2020. Here’s a collection of our favorite cybersecurity blogs and websites from the industry's foremost thought leaders and reporters. #9. What Happened Yesterday with T-Mobile? And was it a DDoS Attack? Was it a DDoS attack against the United States? #2.

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Passwords DDOS Healthcare Scams 98

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 12, 2022

Every day, your development teams are innovating; they rely more on microservices to save time and money as they automate business-to-business processes and provide a back-end for mobile applications. The post How to Make API Security an Integral Part of Your Application Security Strategy appeared first on Blog.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 23, 2021

T-Mobile customers, change your PINs. Largest DDoS attack ever reported gets hoovered up by Cloudflare. Source: BleepingComputer) A job ad blunder by the UK’s Ministry of Defence has accidentally revealed the existence of a secret SAS mobile hacker squad. Beware of COVID Pass scams.

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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. To operate securely in today’s mobile and cloud-first world, organizations must protect their data and control who has access to it.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 11, 2021

Service provider networks are a prime target for the rise in DDoS attacks. The post Five Challenges Mid-Market Service Providers Must Solve Today appeared first on Radware Blog. The volume and scale of these attacks can have devastating impacts.

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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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Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2022

In a blog post published Mar. ” The LAPSUS$ Telegram channel has grown to more than 45,000 subscribers, and Microsoft points to an ad LAPSUS$ posted there offering to recruit insiders at major mobile phone providers, large software and gaming companies, hosting firms and call centers. ” LAPSUS$ leader Oklaqq a.k.a.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2022

Dark Web Index 2022 also lists malware infections and DDoS attacks. The price for USA, CA, UK, AU med quality, 70% success rate per 1,000 installs is $1,200, while the price goes up to $950 for 1000 infected Android mobiles. The price varies between $100 up to $120 depending on the volume of data and the source of the data.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2022

T-Mobile confirms Lapsus$ had access its systems Are you using Java 15/16/17 or 18 in production? Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. Patch them now! To nominate, please visit:?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

According to the Fog of War report published by Google TAG, FROZENBARENTS shows sophisticated offensive capabilities, including credential phishing, mobile activity, malware, external exploitation of services, and beyond.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 19, 2021

Other cybersecurity news: An update to the Covid-19 NHS track and trace mobile app was blocked over privacy and security concerns. Source: Microsoft Security Blog) The EU published the SOCTA 2021 report providing a detailed analysis of the threat of serious and organised crime facing the EU.

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Cisco Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

With the introduction of Wi-Fi 6, many organizations are shifting from a primarily wired infrastructure to one that focuses on worker mobility through wireless connectivity. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks alone are up 33% from last year , with a 37% increase in attack bandwidth. Subscribe to the Networking blog.

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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. Npower App Hack.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

From mining cryptocurrency to launching DDoS attacks against networks, there are countless ways in which malware can access and utilize victim’s computers and data. They can be used to launch spam emails and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, leveraging hundreds of thousands of compromised computers. Warning signs.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 25, 2022

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The malicious web page where we landed after clicking on the chat box Fake mobile apps Along with a reputable domain name, most organizations have now developed their own mobile app, used to communicate with customers, create engagement, and foster brand loyalty.

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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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Webroot

JANUARY 7, 2022

In particular, we witnessed an increase in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and a surge in the usage of the internet of things (IoT). The post 2022: The threat landscape is paved with faster and more complex attacks with no signs of stopping appeared first on Webroot Blog. In particular, six key threats made our list.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Too often we see companies with strong security policies and tools to protect employee corporate-owned endpoints lacking any security oversite for IoT and mobile devices,” Chris Sherman, senior industry analyst at Forrester told me. Mirai ultimately was used to carry out massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.

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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. Online advertising platforms offer advertisers the possibility to bid in order to display brief ads in search engines, such as Google, but also websites, mobile apps and more.

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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. Additionally, with the rise of mobile computing also comes an increase in related threats. Incident response reports. Learn from the past.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 28, 2021

Connection points and interfaces such as mobile phones and Wi-Fi routers also present points of vulnerability. BlackEnergy is a Trojan capable of distributed denial of service (DDoS), cyber espionage and information destruction attacks. Their tactics went beyond the typical DDoS attack. Blog post: Overcoming Patching Pitfalls.

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Energy and Utilities Malware DDOS Internet 72

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2019

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. Dutch police shut down bulletproof service hosting tens of DDoS botnets. Egypt regularly spies on opponents and activists with mobile apps. Once again thank you!

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 23, 2018

When a customer enters a store and connects to the conveniently free WiFi, their device can be taken over by hackers and can potentially launch a host of threats including denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Going mobile. appeared first on Data Security Blog | Thales eSecurity. The post The Countdown to Black Friday Has Begun.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

Non-mobile statistics. Mobile statistics. Subsequently, DDoS attacks hit some government websites. One of the things you can do to protect yourself from advanced mobile spyware is to reboot your device on a daily basis. IT threat evolution in Q1 2022. IT threat evolution in Q1 2022. IT threat evolution in Q1 2022.

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Phishing Spyware Firmware Malware 108

Security Boulevard

MAY 30, 2022

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. How to secure healthcare IoT. Get Fast, Easy, and Secure Enterprise-Grade Code Signing With Venafi!

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2018

.” He goes on to describe the types of Android-based devices that were found to be in a vulnerable state and accessible from the Internet, “ […] we’ve found everything from tankers in the US to DVRs in Hong Kong to mobile telephones in South Korea. At the same time, the binary attempts to spread to other devices as a worm.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 4, 2021

The post How greenfield 5G network operators like DISH are ushering in a new era of cybersecurity appeared first on Allot Blog. In the USA, DISH is getting a lot of attention for its greenfield deployment of the nation’s first cloud-native, Open RAN-based 5G network. As Fierce Wireless recently pointed.

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BH Consulting

JUNE 20, 2023

For the purpose of this blog – we are going to use the term information security to mean both cyber and information security. How much do you know about MFA, data classification and handling rules, layers and levels of encryption, data in storage and in transit, single-signon, endpoint device management and mobile device management?

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A company was told to transfer a certain amount to a Bitcoin wallet to prevent a DDoS attack that the cybercriminals threatened to unleash upon it. Interestingly, the cybercriminals did not limit their threats to DDoS. A law-abiding site owner was likely to do just that.

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