SecureList

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Phishing attacks are going to become even more sophisticated, since a lot of basic tactics have already been tried this year, and businesses learned to repel those. The economic downturn (caused by energy prices, inflation, sanctions, etc.) Yury Slobodyanuk , head of content filtering research, Kaspersky.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

That pace is unlikely to slow down over the coming years; Pagely noted that organizations are still turning to IoT devices as a way to automate and optimize their business processes as well as save on energy costs. billion in number and generate 79.4 zettabytes (ZB) of data by 2025. Healthcare is in Need of a Check-Up.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

A statement from the Ukrainian government issued earlier this week warns energy enterprises inside of Ukraine and those of allies worldwide to increase alert for potential cyberattacks related to current Russia-Ukraine war dynamics. (1) 1) The release also cites possible “DDoS attacks” on Ukraine’s allies, Poland, and unnamed Baltic nations.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 28, 2021

BlackEnergy is a Trojan capable of distributed denial of service (DDoS), cyber espionage and information destruction attacks. A few years ago, a group of attackers used the Trojan to deploy SCADA-related plugins against victims in energy and ICS/SCADA networks in Ukraine and around the world. Additional Learning.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The attackers obtain initial access to a system by sending a spear-phishing email to the victim containing a Dropbox download link. That library was then loaded by the legitimate MsMpEng.exe by utilizing the DLL side-loading technique. The link leads to a RAR archive that masquerades as a Word document.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 28, 2021

For advantages, private blockchains are more scalable and energy-efficient with suggested use cases of banking and supply chain management. DDoS: Overwhelming the Network. In the age-old denial of service (DDoS) attack, a fleet of attacker devices can overwhelm an organization’s web server, thus blocking access to legitimate users.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Its operators seem to leverage vulnerabilities in external-facing servers while utilizing compromised account credentials to gain access and spread the malware further. Current analyses of HermeticWiper reveal that the malware is being delivered in highly-targeted attacks in Ukraine, Latvia, and Lithuania.

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