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China using AI to develop robots that can hide in sea launch bombs and cyber attacks

CyberSecurity Insiders

Now, news is out that the Republic of China is busy developing Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (SUVs) that have the potential to launch torpedos and cyber attacks on the digital infrastructure available in the vicinity. More details awaited!

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BrandPost: Threat Actors Are Launching More Direct-Path DDoS Attacks

CSO Magazine

Just as the emergence of COVID-19 led to changes in how threat actors launched attacks, the return to work and school that began in the second half of 2021 (before Omicron reared its ugly head in November) resulted in a number of changes on the part of cyber attackers. terabits per second using server-based botnets in 2H 2021.

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Attacks on Ukraine communications are a major part of the war

Malwarebytes

Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the war on the battlefield has been accompanied by cyber attacks. Those attacks against critical infrastructure have knocked out banking and defense platforms, mostly by targeting several communication systems. Communications.

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Episode 161: 3 Years after Mirai, IoT DDoS Problem may get Worse

The Security Ledger

Three years after the Mirai botnet launched some of the biggest denial of service attacks ever seen, DDoS is a bigger problem and ever. Three years after the Mirai botnet launched some of the biggest denial of service attacks ever seen, DDoS is a bigger problem and ever. Read the whole entry. »

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How greenfield 5G network operators like DISH are ushering in a new era of cybersecurity

Security Boulevard

As Fierce Wireless recently pointed. In the world of telecom, a greenfield service provider is one where the deployment and configuration of its network are entirely new – where none existed before. 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.

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MY TAKE: Why companies and consumers must collaborate to stop the plundering of IoT systems

The Last Watchdog

And yet our pervasive deployment of IoT systems has also vastly expanded the cyber attack surface of business networks, especially in just the past few years. Mirai ultimately was used to carry out massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. This has brought us many benefits.

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What is Incident Response? Ultimate Guide + Templates

eSecurity Planet

Botnets : Networks of compromised computers are controlled by a central attacker and used for various malicious activities such as launching coordinated distributed denial of service ( DDoS ) attacks, providing a staging point for attacks on other victims, or distributing spam.