Tech Republic Security

JUNE 6, 2023

The post Verizon 2023 DBIR: DDoS attacks dominate and pretexting lead to BEC growth appeared first on TechRepublic. In Verizon’s just-released 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report, money is king, and denial of service and social engineering still hold sway.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2020

The dark web marketplace Empire Market has been down for at least 3 days, two of the possible reasons, an exit scam or a prolonged DDoS attack. The cause is still unclear, someone blames a prolonged denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, while some users suspect an exit scam. Always PGP verify URLs, many phishing links are circulating.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A financial cybercrime group calling itself the Disneyland Team has been making liberal use of visually confusing phishing domains that spoof popular bank brands using Punycode , an Internet standard that allows web browsers to render domain names with non-Latin alphabets like Cyrillic. com — which was created to phish U.S.

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Lohrman on Security

AUGUST 14, 2022

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released tools this past week to help protect the upcoming midterm elections against ransomware, phishing and DDoS attacks.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. Image: SentinelOne.com.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) DDoS attacks have surged dramatically over the last few years, and will likely continue to pose a threat considering both how easy they are to execute, and how fast botnets (vast networks of compromised devices) are scaling. To stay ahead, organizations must turn to artificial intelligence.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The top-level domain for the United States — US — is home to thousands of newly-registered domains tied to a malicious link shortening service that facilitates malware and phishing scams, new research suggests. domains as among the most prevalent in phishing attacks over the past year. US phishing domains.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2020

Group-IB’s CERT-GIB analyzed hundreds of coronavirus -related phishing emails and discovered top malware strains in COVID-19 campaigns. Group-IB’s Computer Emergency Response Team ( CERT-GIB ) analyzed hundreds of coronavirus-related phishing emails between February 13 and April 1, 2020. Spyware: the most likely COVID-19 payload.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2025

” The botnet size enables diverse attacks, from DDoS to phishing, spreading malware via SOCKS proxies, and amplifying C2 operations while masking attackers’ identities.

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Digital Guardian

OCTOBER 13, 2023

This past week was marked by an increase of DDoS attacks, hacktivism, elaborate phishing scams, and more. Catch up on all of these stories and more in this week’s Friday Five!

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2023

The government institutions of Moldova have been hit by a wave of phishing attacks since the country offered support to Ukraine. The government institutions of Moldova have been hit by a wave of phishing attacks, threat actors sent more than 1,330 emails to accounts belonging to the country’s state services. “Owners of.md

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 11, 2022

As their cities suffered more intense bombardment by Russian military forces this week, Ukrainian Internet users came under renewed cyberattacks, with one Internet company providing service there saying they blocked ten times the normal number of phishing and malware attacks targeting Ukrainians. that are easier for computers to manage.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2022

Russian government released a list containing IP addresses and domains behind DDoS attacks that hit Russian infrastructure after the invasion. SecurityAffairs – hacking, DDoS). The post These are the sources of DDoS attacks against Russia, local NCCC warns appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2022

German police arrested one individual suspected of having stolen €4 million from users via large-scale phishing campaigns. Germany’s Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) arrested an individual (24) suspected of having stolen €4,000,000 from internet users via phishing attacks along with a two accomplices who are suspected. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Hacker News

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

A phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform known as Robin Banks has relocated its attack infrastructure to DDoS-Guard, a Russian provider of bulletproof hosting services.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform Robin Banks migrated its infrastructure to DDoS-Guard, a Russian bulletproof hosting service. According to the popular investigator Brian Krebs , DDOS-GUARD also hosted content for conspiracy theory movements QAnon and 8chan, as well as the official site for the Hamas terrorist group.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 14, 2022

We observed an increased number of phishing attacks in the Ukrainian cyberspace in February, just before Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. The post Phishing Attacks In Ukraine | Avast appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Threatpost

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Attackers are targeting students and faculty alike with malware, phishing, DDoS, Zoom bombs and more, the FBI and CISA said.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Criminals making use of booter services which execute Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks to take down websites will have to try a little bit harder today: A major international operation has taken no fewer than 48 of the most popular booter services offline. The FBI has seized this website for operating as a DDoS-for-hire service.

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We Live Security

JULY 21, 2021

Cybercriminals may target the popular event with ransomware, phishing, or DDoS attacks in a bid to increase their notoriety or make money. The post Cybercriminals may target 2020 Tokyo Olympics, FBI warns appeared first on WeLiveSecurity.

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Bleeping Computer

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The Robin Banks phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform is back in action with infrastructure hosted by a Russian internet company that offers protection against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. [.].

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Phishing and Fraud Bad actors can defraud customers out of their money, financial details, and other sensitive data by using deception and social engineering. By using AI to compose phishing messages, bad actors can avoid many of the telltale signs that indicate a scam, such as spelling and grammar errors and awkward phrasing.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

CISA adds PTZOptics camera bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Canadian authorities arrested alleged Snowflake hacker Android flaw CVE-2024-43093 may be under limited, targeted exploitation July 2024 ransomware attack on the City of Columbus impacted 500,000 people Nigerian man Sentenced to 26+ years in real estate phishing scams Russian (..)

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Heimadal Security

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The cybercriminals behind Robin Bank have relocated the phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform to a Russian hosting service. DDoS-Guard takes over from Cloudflare after the latest caused a multi-day disruption of Robin Bank operations by distancing its services from the phishing infrastructure.

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The Hacker News

APRIL 9, 2024

A threat group of suspected Romanian origin called RUBYCARP has been observed maintaining a long-running botnet for carrying out crypto mining, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), and phishing attacks. Its primary method of operation

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 13, 2025

These platforms can automatically recognize and classify threatening behavior such as suspicious network activity, phishing attacks, and transmission of malware. Here's an example that shows how Google performs phishing detection.

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IT Security Guru

JANUARY 30, 2025

Common Cyber Attacks On Spread Betting Platforms Phishing Attacks Hackers send fake emails or messages that are made to look official to unsuspecting users. DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) Attacks A DDoS attack happens when hackers flood a platforms servers with enough traffic to cause the platform to crash.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2022

The attackers carried out both phishing campaigns and DDoS attacks. This activity ranges from espionage to phishing campaigns.” ” FancyBear has conducted several large credential phishing campaigns aimed at the users of Ukrainian media company UkrNet. ” wrote Shane Huntley, Google’s TAG lead.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

CISA adds Palo Alto Networks Expedition bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Hackers target critical flaw CVE-2024-10914 in EOL D-Link NAS Devices China-linked threat actors compromised multiple telecos and spied on a limited number of U.S.

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CTOVision Cybersecurity

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Read Bernard Marr explain the difference between cybersecurity and cyber resilience on Forbes: Cyber threats like hacking, phishing, ransomware, and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have the potential to cause enormous […].

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2025

CISA adds SonicWall SMA100 and Apache HTTP Server flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Pro-Russia hacktivist group NoName057(16) is targeting Dutch organizations FBI shared a list of phishing domains associated with the LabHost PhaaS platform Canadian electric utility Nova Scotia Power and parent company Emera suffered a cyberattack (..)

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

More Phishing Attacks. Phishing may seem like an ordinary part of online life, but it could also be the initial volley in a major cyberattack. Phishing here is shorthand for the Pantheon of Ishings: generic, spearphishing (personalized), vishing (phone based), and SMishing (text based). It may look just like the real thing.

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Heimadal Security

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

While achieving compliance with industry standards is the minimum, it’s not enough to prevent insider threats, supply chain attacks, DDoS, or sophisticated cyberattacks such as double-extortion ransomware, phishing, business email compromise (BEC), info-stealing malware or attacks that leverage the domain name system (DNS).

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Bleeping Computer

MARCH 8, 2022

Google says Russian, Belarusian, and Chinese threat actors targeted Ukrainian and European government and military organizations, as well as individuals, in sweeping phishing campaigns and DDoS attacks. [.].

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IT Security Guru

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Phishing and Social Engineering: These tactics manipulate individuals to disclose sensitive information. Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attacks: These disrupt services, causing significant downtime for governments and industries.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 1, 2022

Blocks phishing websites. 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. Luckily, by blocking the domain names of phishing sites, a DNS filter can nip attacks in the bud.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

For example, an Illinois man recently faced conviction for running a website that allowed users to buy subscriptions to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against computer networks. Accessing and wreaking havoc in an organization can start with something as simple as a phishing email. Mounting a strong defense.

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