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Report: Recent 10x Increase in Cyberattacks on Ukraine

Krebs on Security

As their cities suffered more intense bombardment by Russian military forces this week, Ukrainian Internet users came under renewed cyberattacks, with one Internet company providing service there saying they blocked ten times the normal number of phishing and malware attacks targeting Ukrainians.

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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. The homepage of Stark Industries Solutions.

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Sophisticated phishing scheme spent years robbing authors of their unpublished work

Malwarebytes

In a scheme reminiscent of some sort of comic book supervillain, Filippo Bernadini was arrested at JKF International Airport on Wednesday. Throwing the book at crime. Alongside this were “more than 160 internet domains”. Can I have your next book, please? The reason? Nice award. And you don’t even have to be George R.R.

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GUEST ESSAY: 5 steps for raising cyber smart children — who know how to guard their privacy

The Last Watchdog

For children, concepts like cyber criminals, hackers, private information, and the vast idea of Internet dangers are abstract concepts. You can explain that hackers break in through the Internet to steal information. I’ve also been brought in to host virtual reading events with the book for corporate and nonprofit efforts.

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Author Q&A: Here’s why the good guys must continually test the limitations of ‘EDR’

The Last Watchdog

Related: How ‘XDR’ defeats silos Now along comes a new book, Evading EDR: The Definitive Guide for Defeating Endpoint Detection Systems , by a red team expert, Matt Hand, that drills down a premier legacy security system that is in the midst of this transition: endpoint detection and response, EDR. Hand: I don’t believe so.

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New spear phishing campaign targets Russian dissidents

Malwarebytes

The spear phishing emails are warning people that use websites, social networks, instant messengers and VPN services that have been banned by the Russian Government and that criminal charges will be laid. Spear phishing as the main initial infection vector. ???????? ???????????? ?????????? ????????? (A Figure 1: Phishing template.

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Internet safety tips for kids and teens: A comprehensive guide for the modern parent

Malwarebytes

Today’s generation of kids and teens consider their devices and the Internet as extensions of their lives. So without further ado, let’s dive into what we should be teaching our kids about Internet safety and what we can do to enforce these teachings. 7 Internet safety tips. Keep your online accounts secure. Back up data.

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