eSecurity Planet

JULY 7, 2023

Mention the acronym DDoS to a web admin and they’ll likely break out in a cold sweat. DDoS, or Distributed Denial of Service attacks, are some of the most malicious and difficult-to-stop network attacks that can be launched against a website or any other DDoS-susceptible service, such as a SaaS platform.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Group-IB has estimated that crypto exchanges suffered a total loss of $882 million due to targeted attacks between 2017 and 2018. For instance, cyber criminals targeted TON project, founded by Pavel Durov, through phishing and managed to steal $35,000 in Ethereum. According to Group-IB experts, at least 14 crypto exchanges were hacked.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Police seized BulletProftLink phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform Serbian pleads guilty to running ‘Monopoly’ dark web drug market McLaren Health Care revealed that a data breach impacted 2.2 Virtual Kidnapping: AI Tools Are Enabling IRL Extortion Scams How a ‘Refund Fraud’ Gang Stole $700,000 From Amazon Info from 5.6

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Security Affairs

JUNE 28, 2020

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 5, 2021

What’s interesting about the incident is that the Avaddon Ransomware group is threatening to launch DDoS attack on the labor party next if it doesn’t respond to its demands on a positive note in the said time frame. The post Australia NSW Labor party hit by Avaddon Ransomware appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2025

Mail, Broadcom Brocade Fabric OS, and Commvault Web Server flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog The Turmoil Following BreachForums Shutdown: Confusion, Risks, and a New Beginning Earth Kurma APT is actively targeting government and telecommunications orgs in Southeast Asia A large-scale phishing campaign targets WordPress WooCommerce (..)

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Automated reconnaissance – AI can quickly gather intelligence on targets by scraping data sources like social media, marketing sites, and public records. With AI amplifying social engineering threats, businesses' attack surfaces grow increasingly larger.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

26 key cyber security stats for 2024 that every user should know, from rising cyber crime rates to the impact of AI technolog y. Cyber Crime Surge: During COVID-19 , cyber crimes shot up by 600%, showing how threats adapt to global changes. Phishing Attacks: Phishing is the top cyber attack, causing 90% of data breaches.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 13, 2025

How AI is revolutionizing cybersecurity According to Precedence Research , the worldwide market for AI-powered cybersecurity solutions will grow to $146 billion by 2032. However, hackers may misuse DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attacks, which can flood the network until the traffic crashes.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2022

A DDoS attack took down Finnish govt sites as Ukraine’s President addresses MPs SharkBot Banking Trojan spreads through fake AV apps on Google Play China-linked threat actors target Indian Power Grid organizations A Mirai-based botnet is exploiting the Spring4Shell vulnerability? million US customers U.S.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2020

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2018

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2018

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Ahead of the 2018 US midterm elections , sellers are flooding the cybercrime underground markets with data from voter databases. “Some of the hackers and hacking teams “offer to target government entities for the purposes of database manipulation, economic/corporate espionage, DDoS attacks, and botnet rentals.”

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 30, 2022

Cyber related businesses are ‘evolving risk’. issued a market bulletin dated August 16, 2022 setting out new rules for standalone cyber-attack policies that would exclude coverage for damages from state-sponsored attacks. The Lloyd’s bulletin also draws no distinctions in the type of attack.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2023

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Arthur Laudrain, Strategic Analyst (Cyber Program), The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies. In 2023, we might see a slight decline in ransomware attacks, reflecting the slowdown of the cryptocurrency markets. Dr.Mohamed Al Kuwaiti , UAE Cyber Security Council. Dr.Mohamed Al Kuwaiti , UAE Cyber Security Council.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

Electronic Arts, the top video game maker in the world and owner of almost 40% of the industry’s total market share, saw hackers advertise as much as 780 gigabytes of company data – including source code for the engine that powers their most popular sports games – advertised for sale online.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Editor’s note: I recently had the chance to participate in a discussion about the overall state of privacy and cybersecurity with Erin Kapczynski, OneRep’s senior vice president of B2B marketing. Erin: What are some of the biggest cyber threats that businesses face today? Erin: Deep fakes are becoming more sophisticated.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Earlier in December, Fred Hutch disclosed a cyber attack that took place on November 19, 2023. Fred Hutch investigators are making groundbreaking discoveries in cancer genomics, immunotherapy, precision medicine and other fields. The organization operates a network of clinical sites in the US. ” reported the Seattle Times. “If

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2023

X Master Password Dumper (CVE-2023-32784) Malware RapperBot DDoS Botnet Expands into Cryptojacking Newly identified RA Group compromises companies in U.S. X Master Password Dumper (CVE-2023-32784) Malware RapperBot DDoS Botnet Expands into Cryptojacking Newly identified RA Group compromises companies in U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2021

Some instructive fresh intelligence about how cyber attacks continue to saturate the Internet comes to us from Akamai Technologies. As a leading global content delivery network (CDN), Akamai has a birdseye view of what is coursing through cyber space moment-by-moment. The world is ‘always-on’ and so are the attackers.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

SIEM and SOAR products still seem to be at the center of the cybersecurity market, their monitoring, alerting and response capabilities remaining very much in demand. SOAR applications are newer than SIEM tools on the market. Let’s take a closer look at all these tools and how they compare and contrast. SIEM vs. SOAR.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1834 — French Telegraph System — A pair of thieves hack the French Telegraph System and steal financial market information, effectively conducting the world’s first cyberattack. An industry expert estimates the attacks resulted in $1.2 In one week, the Scientology website is hit with 500 DDoS attacks. .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 14, 2021

In fact, IoT Analytics, a leading provider of market insights for the Internet of Things (IoT), M2M, and Industry 4.0, Although all four categories are expanding, a recent Research and Markets report projects the IoT healthcare sector will grow nearly 39% to reach USD $188.2 billion by 2025, up from $72.5 billion at the end of 2020.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2022

And as cyber attackers become ever more sophisticated, so too have the technologies and tools that companies must buy to address rising threats, such as IDPS , UEBA , threat intelligence , patch management , encryption , DLP , DDoS protection , vulnerability management , and even mobile security management. .”

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 14, 2023

Making themselves known in an increasingly crowded market is getting harder and harder every day. Most hosting providers already support enhanced security measures such as DDOS Protection and HTTPS. A website must also be resilient against cyber attacks, hackers, and data breaches.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

IIoT applications offer a great return on investment while enabling manufacturers to improve automation, visibility, customer-centricity, and time to market. In a typical quality control process, after manufacturers produce an item, it’s tested by quality control with the aim of rectifying flaws before the product reaches the market.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

In addition, Cado Security researchers in a blog post also noted a tweet from cybersecurity researcher German Fernandez, who found that the infamous DDoS Mirai botnet – known for taking advantage of insecure Internet of Things (IoT) devices – also is exploiting OMIGOD.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

IoT devices have a history of being the targets of botnet recruitment and engines for distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The human factor challenge While infrastructure compromise by external actors is the leading type of cyber-attack, potential human errors play an equally important concern.

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Spinone

MAY 8, 2020

What Is a Cyber Attack? A cyber attack refers to a type of attack that is carried out by cybercriminals using a computer or group of computers to attack another computer, group of computers, or network. Cyber attacks target data in one way or another. Who are behind cyber attacks?

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Viking Line: The shipping company, like many across Europe, was the target of a DDoS attack that crippled websites and has IT teams working triple-time to get systems back online. This data is valuable to cybercriminals, who can sell it on the black market or use it to extort money from victims.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

These changes have widened organizations’ cyber attack surface, allowing threat actors to choose the most efficient ways to infiltrate network s. As more companies adopt LLMs for efficiency, the risks of data breaches, insider threats, and ransomware attacks will intensify.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

These services are used by businesses to protect their digital assets and sensitive data from potential cyber attacks. Real-World Simulations: These services replicate real-world cyber attacks and adversaries in order to determine how effectively a system can survive different hacking efforts.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 22, 2024

In response to growing threats posed by increasing digitalization and the surge in cyber-attacks, the EU adopted NIS2 to strengthen security requirements and cyber resilience. Compliance Marcelo Delima | Senior Manager, Global Solutions Marketing More About This Author > Schema basic Site Studio - Banner

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 14, 2020

It also strives to enhance areas such as cookies, unsolicited marketing and confidentiality for online privacy. In addition, high bandwidth will empower criminals to launch much larger data breaches and attacks that could cripple entire enterprise networks. Unfortunately, privacy compliance is still lagging. Conclusion.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

Breach and Attack Simulation Product Guide Top 20 Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) Vendors Penetration Testing Penetration testing is a tried-and-true method of cyber attack simulation. DDoS protection services are offered by third-party vendors to combat these types of attacks.

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