Heimadal Security

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The effectiveness of Cloudflare’s Firewall and DDoS prevention has been proven to be compromised by an attack technique that takes the use of logical vulnerabilities in cross-tenant security policies. How Does the Cloudflare Attack Work?

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Heimadal Security

MARCH 17, 2023

Today we talk about DDoS-as-a-service, a practice that combines DDoS (Distributed […] The post DDoS-as-a-service Attacks. Today we talk about DDoS-as-a-service, a practice that combines DDoS (Distributed […] The post DDoS-as-a-service Attacks. What Are They and How Do They Work?

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2019

A couple of high-profile distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks will surely go down in history as watershed events – each for different reasons. Related: IoT botnets now available for economical DDoS blasts. His blog, Krebs on Security , was knocked down alright. DDoS attacks aren’t going to go away anytime soon.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 10, 2021

The motivation behind Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks is often unknown. And while DDoS attacks on business enterprises can result in huge commercial losses due to […]. The post How a DDoS Attack on an Internet Service Provider Can Paralyze Critical Infrastructure appeared first on Blog.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 17, 2023

DNS is a critical infrastructure for your online services, a DNS DDoS attack risks the availability of your services. Understanding how a DNS DDoS looks like, and the risks it poses to your business is key to designing a robust DNS security posture. Attackers are experts in DNS and know all the weak points to target.

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Heimadal Security

APRIL 4, 2022

The malware focuses on DDoS (Distributed-Denial-of-Service) cyberattacks, ransomware distribution, and UAC bypass. How Does Borat Work? The post New RAT Dubbed Borat Emerging on the Cyberthreat Landscape appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 26, 2023

One of the most commonly overlooked topics when selecting a DDoS protection solution relates to analytics and reporting tools. Many customers choose a DDoS solution based solely on either how effective they believe it will be or how well they’ve been told it protects against various attacks.

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Graham Cluley

MARCH 27, 2023

There's bad news if you're someone who is keen to launch a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack to boot a website off the internet, but don't have the know-how to do it yourself. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

For example, this account at Medium has authored more than a dozen blog posts in the past year singing the praises of Tornote as a secure, self-destructing messaging service. Fory66399 insisted that their website — privnote[.]co co — was being wrongly flagged by MetaMask’s “eth-phishing-detect” list as malicious.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2022

Microsoft in November fended off a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in its Azure cloud that officials said was the largest ever recorded, the latest in a wave of record attacks that washed over the IT industry in the second half of 2021. Also read: How to Stop DDoS Attacks: 6 Tips for Fighting DDoS Attacks.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 20, 2021

On the Cloudflare blog , the American web infrastructure behemoth that provides content delivery network (CDN) and DDoS mitigation services reports that it detected and mitigated a 17.2 million request-per-second (rps) DDoS attack. The target of this enormous DDoS attack was a customer of Cloudflare in the financial sector.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 25, 2022

Having spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, threats such as malware, ransomware, and DDoS attacks continue to accelerate. The post GUEST ESSAY: How amplified DDoS attacks on Ukraine leverage Apple’s Remote Desktop protocol appeared first on Security Boulevard. Related: Apple tools abuse widespread.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 23, 2021

Security firm Cloudflare successfully detected and mitigated a DDoS attack that peaked at 17.2 Omer Yoachimik, Product Manager of Cloudflare's DDoS Protection Service, discusses the scale of the attack: "For perspective on how large this attack was: Cloudflare serves over 25 million HTTP requests per second on average.

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Heimadal Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Before trying to understand what is a Smurf Attack, we must first understand the concepts of DoS and DDoS. The post What Is a Smurf Attack, How Does It Work and How to Prevent It appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. What Is a Smurf Attack?

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Bad bots perform malicious tasks such as, DDoS attacks, website scraping and comment spam. They use algorithms to determine which sites to crawl, how often to crawl and how many pages it should retrieve from each site. If you spend time reading blogs, you’ve probably spent some time perusing the comment section.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2022

Besides proprietary tools, they’re leveraging MHDDoS, Blood, Karma DDoS, Hasoki, DDoS Ripper and GoldenEye scripts to generate malicious traffic on Layer 7 which may impact the availability of WEB resources. (USA) has identified an increase in activity within hacktivist groups conducted by a new group called “Cyber Spetsnaz”.

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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. Learn how to recognize and avoid COVID-19 scams. #8. How Hackers Steal and Use Your Passwords. Zoom Isn’t Secure, but Here’s How to Fix It.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Related: How AI can relieve security pros What causes spam emails? It’s a type of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that uses a script to automatically send messages. We all get spam emails, and while it’s annoying, it’s not usually anything to worry about. However, getting a huge influx of spam at once is a warning sign.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2022

Entrust blog still down on your left and official statement on your right. Curiously, the LockBit ransomware’s Tor leak sites were unreacheable due to a DDoS attack. According to the security research group VX-Underground, the DDoS attacks against Tor sites of the gang were launched by someone linked to Entrust.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2022

Experts investigate how stolen Facebook accounts are used as part of a well-established fraud industry inside Facebook. The post How the thriving fraud industry within Facebook attacks independent media appeared first on Security Affairs. To nominate, please visit:? Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

John Senchak , a longtime VFEmail user from Florida who also has been a loyal reader and commenter at this blog, told KrebsOnSecurity that the attack completely wiped out his inbox at the company — some 60,000 emails sent and received over more than a decade. Founded in 2001 and based in Milwaukee, Wisc., users may be irreparably lost.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2022

The Italian police is investigating the attack, while the National Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) confirmed that the websites were hit with DDoS attacks. The Pro-Russian hacktivists launched a Slow POST DDoS attack, the CSIRT warns that this kind of attack is unusual and for this reason it could be undetected.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 18, 2023

Gainesville, Fla., July 18, 2022 – Around 30,000 websites get hacked every day , with the majority of those cyberattacks due to human error. This has projected costs associated with cybercrimes to hit the tens of trillions by 2025, highlighting the vital need for web hosts to implement staunch security.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here is Erin’s Q&A column, which originally went live on OneRep’s well-done blog.) Here is Erin’s Q&A column, which originally went live on OneRep’s well-done blog.) For the first expert interview on our blog, we welcomed Pulitzer-winning investigative reporter Byron V.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 9, 2023

This blog post was authored by Jérôme Segura. Digging further into the skimmer's infrastructure on Russian-based hosting provider DDoS-Guard, we came across a digital crime haven for cryptocurrency scams, Bitcoin mixers, malware distribution sites and much more. Saylor (saylor2xbtc[.]com). Figure 2: Fiddler traffic capture.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

When Did The Need for DDoS Protection Begin? And nearly 15 years later they’re still a very potent threat to businesses of all sizes, with DDoS protection being a necessity for many. And nearly 15 years later they’re still a very potent threat to businesses of all sizes, with DDoS protection being a necessity for many.

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Heimadal Security

APRIL 19, 2021

The information bandwidth monitors collect, monitor, and analyze allows IT administrators to ensure adequate bandwidth for business-critical apps, minimize the impact of non-critical or unauthorized network traffic, identify bandwidth bottlenecks unnecessarily running in peak load periods, and alert potential DDoS attacks or externally […].

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2022

Please vote for Security Affairs as the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS Vote for me in the sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog” and others of your choice. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2022

sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog”). Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs for free in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. To nominate, please visit:?.

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NetSpi Executives

OCTOBER 13, 2023

This vulnerability abuses certain features of HTTP/2 protocol and allows for Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks at an unprecedented scale. What Could Happen If Exploited The industry is seeing large-scale DDoS attacks stemming from exploitation of HTTP/2 Rapid Reset. Who’s Impacted? of all websites.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 30, 2021

Is your organization prepared to mitigate Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against mission-critical cloud-based applications? A DDoS attack is a cyber attack that uses bots to flood the targeted server or application with junk traffic, exhausting its resources and disrupting service for real human users. Source: Testbytes.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2022

Among other things, the guidelines explained how to initiate an attack and what tools to download, allowing non-professionals to launch an attack on their own. "As A container image with a DDoS attack tool over TCP protocol through multiple connection requests, which targets multiple service providers in Russia. Sometimes for good.

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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. Take a deep dive into the three main hacker types and get tips on how to defend against them by downloading the e-book, Hacker Personas: a deeper Look Into Cybercrime. The Impersonator. The Infiltrator.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

ViperSoftX uses more sophisticated encryption and anti-analysis techniques Atomic macOS Stealer is advertised on Telegram for $1,000 per month CISA warns of a critical flaw affecting Illumina medical devices OpenAI reinstates ChatGPT service in Italy after meeting Garante Privacy’s demands Cisco discloses a bug in the Prime Collaboration Deployment (..)

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2019

The popular expert unixfreaxjp analyzed a new China ELF DDoS’er malware tracked as “Linux/DDoSMan” that evolves from the Elknot malware to deliver new ELF bot. The code seems inspired from multiple source code of China basis DDoS client, like Elknot. On the MMD blog. Non-Technical-Premise.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

AUGUST 10, 2022

In the modern age, nation states are expanding the battlefield with targeted cyber attacks on their adversaries. Are you at risk? Why cyber attacks?” Nation states have always sought advantages to increase their geopolitical power and secure their interests both domestically and abroad. Who are the hackers? Are they military?”

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Related: How training can mitigate targeted attacks. Here’s how hackers crafting new ransomware extortion tactics to keep analysts on their toes: Data exfiltration is no more. Here’s how hackers crafting new ransomware extortion tactics to keep analysts on their toes: Data exfiltration is no more.

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