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How to Prevent DDoS Attacks: 5 Steps for DDoS Prevention

eSecurity Planet

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks seek to cripple a corporate resource such as applications, web sites, servers, and routers, which can quickly lead to steep losses for victims. However, DDoS attackers sometimes even target the specific computers (or routers) of unwary people – often to harass video gamers, for example.

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DDoS attacks in Q4 2020

SecureList

In December, Canada’s Laurentian University reported a DDoS attack. Educational institutions are recommended to use anti-DDoS solutions and strong firewall settings, and partner up with ISPs. In early October, a DDoS attack was reported by the PUBG Mobile team. But it dealt with the problem in a matter of minutes.

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KillNet hits healthcare sector with DDoS attacks

Malwarebytes

At the end of January, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center warned that the KillNet group is actively targeting the US healthcare sector with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says it helped dozens of hospitals respond to these DDoS incidents.

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Cybersecurity in Aviation: Rising Threats and Modernization Efforts

SecureWorld News

The attack vectors are diverse: fraudulent websites mimicking airline booking portals, phishing campaigns targeting airline staff, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks crippling airport websites malware infiltrating maintenance system, ransomware encrypting critical backend databases, and more. Airports have also been targeted.

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Attackers are hacking NSC Linear eMerge E3 building access systems to launch DDoS attacks

Security Affairs

Researchers from SonicWall revealed that hackers are attempting to compromise Linear eMerge E3 smart building access systems to recruit them in a DDoS botnet. Passwords can be found in p roduct documentation and compiled lists available on the Internet.” CVE-2019-7256 is actively being exploited by DDoS botnet operators.

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How $100M in Jobless Claims Went to Inmates

Krebs on Security

“We’ve seen [videos] of people in nursing homes, where folks off camera are speaking for them and holding up documents.” came under a series of denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks aimed at knocking the service offline. . “A lot of this is targeting the elderly,” Hall said. Hall says ID.me

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FBI’s investigation accidentally revealed the HelloKitty ransomware gang operates out of Ukraine

Security Affairs

The FBI believes HelloKitty exploited a vulnerability in our third-party firewall, enabling the hackers to gain entry to the network.” According to the alert, the ransomware gang is launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks as part of its extortion activities.