eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

The vendor reports show that most attackers want credentials, most malware development is in credential-stealing software, and the market for stolen credentials is booming: Cisco: Found 54% of organizations experienced a cybersecurity incident; and of those incidents, 54% involved phishing and 37% involved credentials stuffing.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 7, 2025

This dual alignment ensures compatibility with international benchmarks while addressing the specific needs of the EU market. Firewalls, Routers, and Switches): Threat Resilience: Devices must demonstrate resistance against known attack vectors, including DDoS attacks, buffer overflows, and man-in-the-middle attempts.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

MoonBounce: the dark side of UEFI firmware. Late last year, we became aware of a UEFI firmware-level compromise through logs from our firmware scanner (integrated into Kaspersky products at the start of 2019). Subsequently, DDoS attacks hit some government websites. The phishing kit market. Targeted attacks.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

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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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Pen Test Partners

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This may include firmware extraction and analysis, together with non volatile storage. A review of a DVR would involve testing the security of the local operating system, together with extracting firmware and analysing it for security flaws. Mid-market vendors have distinctly variable security issues.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

These one, three, and five year subscriptions provide enhanced support for the hardware, firmware maintenance, security updates, and optional participation in early-release firmware updates. While it does not publish explicit pricing, buyers can obtain a free quote by filling out Barracuda’s SASE Solution Build and Price questionnaire.

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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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Security Boulevard

MAY 30, 2022

By 2027, the IoT in Healthcare market is expected to reach $290 billion , up from just $60 billion in 2019. Compromised devices can be leveraged as part of a botnet or can contribute to a DDoS attack which can further hinder an organization. How to secure healthcare IoT.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

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.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

Already a leading SD-WAN pick, the HPE subsidiary boosted its market position with acquisitions of security vendor Cape Networks in 2018 and WAN specialist Silver Peak Systems in 2020. Launched in 2002 and specializing in wireless networking , Aruba Networks’ success led to its acquisition by Hewlett-Packard in 2015. Barracuda Networks.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 5, 2021

That would make this denial of service attack roughly twice as powerful as any similar previously recorded DDoS attack at the time. That said, there would not be any DDoS attack, and the targets, say, on the other hand, if you lock the traffic from the c&c server, you might not be infected. terabits per second.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In May, Ars Technica reported that BootGuard private keys had been stolen following a ransomware attack on Micro-Star International (MSI) in March this year (firmware on PCs with Intel chips and BootGuard enabled will only run if it is digitally signed using the appropriate keys). The trend may evolve in various ways.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

Markets also continue to evolve in diversity of offerings and the variety of organizations providing services. Application and website security monitors and manages tools to prevent incidents such as server attacks, distributed denial of service (DDoS), and cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Most of the observed attacks were crowdsourced distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, website defacements, and data destruction operations. As you can see in the example below, in 2014 some threat actors preferred internet relay chats (IRCs) to organize DDoS attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Automate Updates: Local network routers, firewalls, and other equipment can be set to automatically download new updates so that the devices and the firmware do not become vulnerable. However, organizations should also be aware that power failures during updates or buggy updates may result in equipment failure.

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Spinone

MARCH 17, 2018

The biggest ever DDoS attack was recently carried out using over 150,000 hacked smart devices worldwide including cameras, printers, and fridges. Insecure Software As smart technology is moving so quickly, manufacturers are under pressure to get their product on the market as quickly as possible.

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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. Alas, not all users of vulnerable programs and devices install updates promptly.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It directly affected satellite modems firmwares , but was still to be understood as of mid-March. Taking sides: professional ransomware groups, hacktivists, and DDoS attacks. DDoS attacks, in particular, require generating heavy network traffic that attackers typically cannot sustain for very long periods of time.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

China-based video surveillance related product offering company Hikvision has issued a security advisory saying that all those using their security cameras and NVRs must know a critical vulnerability on its devices that could allow hackers to take control of the cameras and use them as bots to launch DDoS or other related attacks.

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