eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

in the DNS cache for more efficient delivery of information to users. The DNS protocol is installed on servers and typically will store the most frequently requested sites — such as Google.com, Outlook.com, etc. —

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Daniel Miessler

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Then, within the last year or two, they started adding a second technique, which is stealing the data before they encrypt it—and then if you don’t pay they threaten to release that data and embarrass your business. They threaten to DDoS your company so customers can’t use your service.

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SecureList

MAY 10, 2021

Botnet operators use infected devices to carry out DDoS attacks or mine cryptocurrency. In Q1 2021, cybercriminals also found a host of new tools for amplifying DDoS attacks. RDP servers listening on UDP port 3389 were used to amplify DDoS attacks. The vendor released a patch when they learned about the problem.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

Downtime limits incident response, increases the risk of data breaches, and can be used as leverage for DDoS attacks. Migration challenges result in incomplete transfers, which expose critical information to risk. Failure to enforce security regulations and implement appropriate encryption may result in accidental data exposure.

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Centraleyes

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

To build a robust information security strategy, one must understand and apply the core principles of information security. This blog post will delve into the fundamental principles underpinning effective information security principles and practices.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Netlab researchers spotted a new Android malware, dubbed Matryosh , that is infecting devices to recruit them in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet. The main purpose of the Android botnet is to carry out DDoS attacks. The post Matryosh DDoS botnet targets Android-Based devices via ADB appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2022

Cloudflare has mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 15.3 Cloudflare announced to have mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 15.3 million request-per-second (RPS), which is one of the largest HTTPS DDoS attacks blocked by the company.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2023

DNS communicates in plain text and, without modification, DNS assumes that all information it receives is accurate, authentic, and authoritative. To protect the protocol, best practices will add additional protocols to the process that encrypt the DNS communication and authenticate the results.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2019

Encrypted messaging service Telegram was hit by a major DDoS attack apparently originated from China, likely linked to the ongoing political unrest in Hong Kong. We’re currently experiencing a powerful DDoS attack, Telegram users in the Americas and some users from other countries may experience connection issues.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Data Encryption Public cloud providers implement strong encryption mechanisms to protect data at rest, and users should enable encryption for data in transit as well. Data encryption in transit guarantees that information stays private while being sent across networks.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

AT&T is working to stop a botnet that has infected at least 5,700 network edge servers inside its networks and appears designed to steal sensitive information and launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Also read: DDoS Attacks Skyrocket, Kaspersky Researchers Say. The three updates occurred during November.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

Launched in 2008, privnote.com employs technology that encrypts each message so that even Privnote itself cannot read its contents. Throughout 2023, Tornote was hosted with the Russian provider DDoS-Guard , at the Internet address 186.2.163[.]216. The real Privnote, at privnote.com. And it doesn’t send or receive messages.

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Hacker Combat

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Botnets leveraged against Log4Shell, often specialize in DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks. Some botnet DDoS attacks include Mirai and Elknot. The implantation was for new ransomware that uses file encryption. However, it did not provide further information. The majority of these attacks target Linux systems.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

Organizations shorten the time it takes to transmit and process information by storing it closer to where it is generated, reducing the window of risk and improving overall data security during transit. Understanding these risks helps firms implement informed risk management and mitigation strategies.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 30, 2022

A press update released by the company states that information such as email addresses, social security numbers, physical addresses of over 850,000 PII were stolen by Hive hackers and all measures were being taken to stop them from posting 400 GB data onto the dark web.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2023

While this communication system is useful for transferring real-time data, it offers neither encryption nor lockout mechanisms against password-guessing. This would allow them to view live feeds and record footage, which could be used for surveillance, reconnaissance, or gathering sensitive information. Many more could be vulnerable.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Dubbed as Yanluowang ransomware and discovered by security researchers from Broadcom Threat Hunting Team, the new file encrypting malware was found threatening the victims of launching DDoS attacks along with the usual data steal and encryption threat.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Prevention: Implement robust encryption , access restrictions, data categorization, secure connections, and an incident response strategy. DDoS Attacks How they occur: Distributed Denial of Service ( DDoS ) attacks overload cloud and network systems, interrupting access and triggering service disruptions.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

UK NCA arrested a member of the Apophis Squad hacker group that launched distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against many organizations, including ProtonMail. National Crime Agency (NCA) announced the arrest of the 19-year-old George Duke-Cohan from Hertfordshire that was involved in the ProtonMail DDoS attack.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence builds a monthly picture of ransomware activity by monitoring the information published by ransomware gangs on their Dark Web leak sites. This information represents victims who were successfully attacked but opted not to pay a ransom. Triple extortion.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This shared certificate is then abused to bypass Cloudflare DDoS security and launch DDoS attacks against known server IP addresses. encryption and to contact vendors about possible issues and fixes for their encryption algorithms. information disclosure vulnerability CVE-2023-42119 = 3.1 under CVSS v3.1)

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 24, 2024

Generally, when you adhere to the cloud security best practices , such as strong authentication, data encryption, and continuous monitoring, the cloud can be extremely safe. Encrypt data: Ensure that data is encrypted at rest and in transit. This is why you need continuous vigilance and risk management.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2023

According to the alert, the ransomware gang is launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks as part of its extortion activities. The ransomware gang targets their victims’ websites with DDoS attacks if they refuse to pay the ransom.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2024

Some of the biggest threats in cloud security are DDoS attacks, cloud storage buckets malware, insider threats, and APT attacks. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks DDoS attacks flood cloud services with excessive traffic, rendering them inaccessible to users.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Researchers have identified 3 versions of the malware, the bot was mainly used to launch DDoS attacks ad to establish a backdoor on infected devices to gather sensitive information, such as call logs. “Modify the “ABIFLAGS” PHT in ELF to counter qemu-user and some high kernel versions of the linux sandbox.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 1, 2022

You might recognize this as one example of phishing , an attack where cybercriminals trick potential victims into sharing sensitive information or giving the perpetrator privileged access to a network. From there, hackers can phish sensitive customer or business information — as described above. Detects potential DDoS attacks.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 5, 2021

” “We inform you that information about you will be published on the darknet [link to dark web victim shaming page] if the company does not contact us,” the message concludes. Such as phone, email, address, credit card information and social security number,” the Clop gang states in the email. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2023

They included a lot of sensitive information, such as database credentials, login information for the SMTP server, enterprise payment processing information, and others. Environment files typically contain sensitive configuration information and credentials. env) attributed to New England Biolabs (NEB).

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 20, 2024

Digital rights management (DRM) is an encryption technology that enforces creator’s rights. Digital rights management wraps digital data into an encrypted wrapper tied to a license that contains the rules for how the content may be used. The management software will also track encrypted file use and continuously enforce digital rights.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In December, 2022, the Office of Information Security and Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center issued an extensive Analyst Note which identified BlackCat as a "relatively new but highly-capable" ransomware threat to health care providers. Stop malicious encryption. Create offsite, offline backups.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 18, 2023

The additional result of these hacks include: •51% had their information phished •43% had credit card information stolen •35% had their username and password stolen •17% had their identity stolen or cloned Additionally, the study found that a large majority of Americans (75%) harbor genuine concerns about visiting websites that do not look secure.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 22, 2024

On 17 October 2024, European Union Member States must adopt and publish the measures necessary to comply with the Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2). More stringent security requirements The goal of NIS2 is to protect network and information systems and the physical environment of those systems from incidents.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

All firewalls filter based on rules for network and transport layer information and many newer firewalls can also filter on the data link layer to block malicious IP addresses and URLs. Application Sending and receiving application information 6. Application Information on usable data formats, encryption 5. Application 4.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

As with most cyberextortionists lately, the Cuba gang encrypts victims’ files and demands a ransom in exchange for a decryption key. Single extortion: encrypting data and demanding a ransom just for decryption. Double extortion: besides encrypting, attackers steal sensitive information.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

At the beginning this week, ransomware spreading hackers locked down the servers of Nantucket Public Schools with the help of file encrypting malware, prompting the school authorities to shut down the schools from Tuesday. Lockbit ransomware gang is suspected to be behind the incident.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Killnet announced it launched a DDoS cyber attack on the network serving the alliance, and is repenting for the in-human deed. And parliamentarian Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that the CERT-India has investigated the incident and discovered that the hackers breached about 5 servers and managed to encrypt around 1.3TB of data.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

. “As a variant, MooBot inherits Mirai’s most significant feature – a data section with embedded default login credentials and botnet configuration – but instead of using Mirai’s encryption key, 0xDEADBEEF, MooBot encrypts its data with 0x22.” ” At the time of the analysis, the C2 server was offline.

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