Heimadal Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In cybersecurity, in particular, DNS scavenging can help prevent DNS cache poisoning attacks and even reduce the chances of DNS servers being used in DDoS attacks. appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. In this article […]. The post What Is DNS Scavenging?

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Heimadal Security

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Distributed Denial of Service, otherwise known as DDoS attacks are online attacks in which legitimate users are prevented from accessing their target online location. The attack happens by flooding the website in question with a multitude of illegitimate information requests.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2023

A vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol dubbed “Rapid Reset” has led to record DDoS attacks on web servers in recent months. Google, AWS and Cloudflare jointly revealed the attacks and vulnerability today, but noted that every modern web server remains vulnerable to the attack technique.

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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.

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Heimadal Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The Smurf Attack is one of the oldest, simplest, and effective cyber-attacks, one that can draw down many unpleasant consequences for any targeted company. What Is a Smurf Attack? Before trying to understand what is a Smurf Attack, we must first understand the concepts of DoS and DDoS.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Officials with Microsoft’s Azure public cloud said the company in late August was able to stave off a record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against a European customer that originated in the Asia-Pacific region. The attack, which hit 2.4 Mitigating the DDoS Attack. DDoS an Ongoing Threat.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2023

A flaw in the Service Location Protocol (SLP), tracked as CVE-2023-29552, can allow to carry out powerful DDoS attacks. impacting the Service Location Protocol ( SLP ) can be exploited by threat actors to conduct powerful volumetric DDoS attacks. Step 2: The attacker registers services until SLP denies more entries.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Cybercriminals are constantly crawling the web for targets, and they’ll often go after websites you might not expect, such as a vegan cooking blog. And why would they be tempted to attack your site? Here are some examples so you have an accurate picture of common website attacks. Joe’s Vegan Blog Cooks Up Comment Spam.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 2, 2023

CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) have been around for over 20 years, and they are still one of the most common security measures used to prevent bots from accessing websites. Websites that rely on CAPTCHAs to protect themselves from bots are now vulnerable to attack. DDoS protection.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

How DoS/DDoS Attacks Impact Machine Identity, Digital Certificates. But OCSP also creates a favorable attack vector which threat actors have exploited directly by mounting DoS/DDoS attacks. It relieves the client of querying the OCSP server on its own and reduces the attack surface. brooke.crothers.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

With this vulnerability the attackers can obtain initial access to the target Azure environment and then move laterally within it. If the Mirai botnet exploits a vulnerable machine, the operators will drop one of the Mirai DDoS botnet versions and close port 5896 on the internet to prevent other attackers from exploiting the same box.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Here are our top 4 cybersecurity tips your business can deploy now to get proactive on preventing data breaches , site defacement, DDoS attacks and other threats that put your sites at risk. Because cybercrime is big business (and the fastest-growing type of crime), new attack methods are always arising.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 3, 2022

These risks have become even more pronounced as ransomware attacks reach record-breaking highs. An OT manager is more concerned with reliable solutions to monitor processes in industrial environments, while an IT security admin is more interested in implemented controls to reduce the risk of an attack. A New Wave of Attacks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Protect Your Organization from Cybercrime-as-a-Service Attacks madhav Thu, 10/12/2023 - 04:53 In years gone by, only large enterprises needed to be concerned with cybercrime. 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.

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Cisco Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

While the CAPEX and OPEX savings are compelling, increasing wireless traffic provides a larger attack surface – and greater opportunity – for hackers. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks alone are up 33% from last year , with a 37% increase in attack bandwidth. The Challenges of Wireless Security.

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Webroot

MARCH 9, 2021

Many successful attacks could actually be prevented if users just knew what to look for. In that spirit, we put together this blog post to explain the different hacker types and methods they use against us. They rely on targeted or focused attacks, and carry out their crimes against specific businesses or individuals.

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Notice Bored

AUGUST 27, 2020

Under assault from a sustained DDoS attack, its web servers have crumpled and fallen in an untidy heap again today, the fourth day of embarrassing and costly disruption. DDoS attacks are generally not sophisticated hacks but crude overloads caused by sending vast volumes of data to overwhelm the servers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Oracle has just released a security update to prevent 2.3 million servers running the RPCBIND service from being used in amplified DDoS attacks. The data showed that a DDoS attack was in progress, coming from port 111 of several servers, all from other countries. Securi ty Affairs – Oracle, DDoS).

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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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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

From industry tips and best practices to the latest Malwarebytes product releases and how-tos, our Business newsletter is chock-full of the best of our business blog. Now more than ever, threat actors are trying to attack company networks. In this post, we break down five must-have technologies that help prevent cyberattacks for SMBs.

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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. Why cyber attacks?” The rise in state-funded or state-initiated cyber attacks can be attributed to a number of different interests by the respective nation states embracing these modern methods of “international diplomacy.”

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

distributed Denial of service attacks (DDoS). reported that these attacks exceeded 1Tbps—the largest on public record. What’s remarkable about these record-breaking attacks is they were carried out via small, innocuous Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices like home routers, air-quality monitors, and personal surveillance cameras.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In fact, it’s possible for attacks and infections on your website to go undetected for years. In this blog, we’ll discuss what cyberattacks are, the most common types of attacks your website is likely to face, and most importantly, how you can prevent them. What is a cyberattack? Ransomware.

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Webroot

MARCH 24, 2021

Threats such as hacking, phishing, ransomware and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are only the tip of the iceberg and have the potential to interrupt critical business operations and cause reputational damage to organizations of all sizes. It can take a village to prevent cyber threats.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 25, 2022

To prevent transactions from being linked to the sender, Monero merges the transaction signature of a user with those of other users to create ambiguity in blockchain analysis and make trace-back challenging. Stealth addresses prevent transactions from being linked to the recipient's public wallet address.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2022

Cybersecurity agencies of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance (United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom) issued a joint advisory warning of cyber attacks on critical infrastructure conducted by Russia-linked threat actors and criminal cyber threats. President Biden for more information). ” read the advisory.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 19, 2024

The problem: The FortiOS SSL VPN feature vulnerability, CVE-2024-21762, disclosed February 8th , remains exposed to attack on nearly 150,000 devices according to the ShadowServer Foundation website. March 8, 2024 150,000 Fortinet Secure Web Gateways Remain Exposed Type of vulnerability: Arbitrary code execution (ACE).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2022

Cybercrime gang FIN7’s badUSB attacks serve as a reminder of two key vulnerabilities present among all organizations. FIN7’s badUSB attacks serve as a reminder of two key vulnerabilities present among all organizations. The badUSB attack first exploited enterprises’ greatest weakness: insiders. What you see is not what you get.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 28, 2021

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.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Cyber attacks against the company aren’t the only relevant threat, however. For instance, malicious actors can use malware to enslave exposed IoT devices into a botnet and launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. But that’s not digital attackers’ primary motivation for targeting medical IoT-or IoMT.

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BH Consulting

JUNE 13, 2023

Half of all social engineering attacks involve ‘pretexting’, where criminals fabricate a story to trick the victim. Verizon said this could be why business email compromise attacks (which are essentially pretexting) have almost doubled on last year. SC Magazine noted Verizon’s finding that DDoS attacks are getting worse.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

ThreatLabz has observed a resurgence in targeted attack activity against Ukraine in the recent months. We’ve identified two targeted attack chains that were likely waged by the Gamaredon APT threat actor between January and February 2022, and expect to see similar attacks in the coming days and weeks. Stopping data loss.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

President Joe Biden for “massive cyberattacks” aimed at disrupting the Russian invasion – initial reports of cyber attacks have in some cases been destructive and damaging, but not anywhere near anyone’s worst-case fears of utility system attacks, for example. A software supply chain attack (Kitsoft).

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Centraleyes

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This blog post will delve into the fundamental principles underpinning effective information security principles and practices. It aims to prevent unauthorized changes or alterations to information, ensuring that data remains accurate and trustworthy. Integrity: The integrity principle focuses on the accuracy and reliability of data.

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BH Consulting

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The report recommends steps to prevent breaches, such as making MFA mandatory, turning on features that make storage buckets private, and discovering any publicly exposed workloads. It noted that attackers are adept at finding gaps in security defences, especially in multi-cloud environments. It’s up 440,000 (8.7

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

However, the truth is that businesses of all sizes hold valuable data in their hands, and cybercriminals work to create new sophisticated attack methods to acquire this information. To help you get started, we break down the most common attacks into a simple small business cybersecurity guide for your business.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Websites experience 22 attacks per day on average— that’s over 8,000 attacks per year, according to SiteLock data. A website vulnerability is a weakness or misconfiguration in a website or web application code that allows an attacker to gain some level of control of the site, and possibly the hosting server.

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