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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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 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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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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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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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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Threatpost

MARCH 9, 2022

Also on the rise: DDoS attacks against Ukrainian sites and phishing activity capitalizing on the conflict, with China's Mustang Panda targeting Europe.

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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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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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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

JANUARY 5, 2021

In October 2020, KrebsOnSecurity looked at how a web of sites connected to conspiracy theory movements QAnon and 8chan were being kept online by DDoS-Guard , a dodgy Russian firm that also hosts the official site for the terrorist group Hamas. New research shows DDoS-Guard relies on data centers provided by a U.S.-based

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The Kaspersky Anti-Phishing component blocked 434,898,635 attempts at accessing scam sites. The most frequent targets of phishing attacks were online stores (18.12 The contact phone trick was heavily used both in email messages and on phishing pages. Interestingly, the cybercriminals did not limit their threats to DDoS.

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Tech Republic Security

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Game players are affected by phishing campaigns, while gaming companies are getting hit by DDoS attacks, says Akamai.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

Downtime limits incident response, increases the risk of data breaches, and can be used as leverage for DDoS attacks. 8 Common Cloud Storage Security Risks & Mitigations Cloud storage risks include misconfiguration, data breaches, insecure interfaces, DDoS attacks, malware, insider threats, encryption issues, and patching issues.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 27, 2022

But someone’s managed to… Police seize and dismantle massive phishing operation Rogue cryptocurrency billboards go phishing for wallets Dial 311 for…cybersecurity emergencies? ” 7-Zip gets Mark of the Web feature, increases protection for users MEGA claims it can’t decrypt your files.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Design robust server architecture to improve redundancy and capacity for resilience against failure or DDoS attacks. Implement rate limiting to harden against DDoS and DNS tunneling attacks. Anti-DDoS configurations can enhance server architecture DDoS to protect DNS. Firewalls should be hardened to close unneeded ports.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches. NetScout: Observed 13,142,840 DDoS attacks, including: 104,216 video gaming enterprise attacks. 20,551 gambling industry attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Additionally, some attackers will use DNS disruptions to conceal more dangerous cyberattacks such as data theft, ransomware preparations, or inserting backdoors into other resources. Of these options, one of the most important is DNSSEC, which should be incorporated by organizations of all sizes. What Are DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC)?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2024

In January 2023, the government institutions of Moldova were hit by a wave of phishing attacks , threat actors sent more than 1,330 emails to accounts belonging to the country’s state services. The phishing messages attempt to trick recipients into clicking on an embedded link claiming that their domain is expiring.

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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 Boulevard

MARCH 11, 2022

Since the invasion, several cyber attacks - including DDoS attacks , the deployment of wiper malware , and phishing campaigns - have targeted both Ukrainian and Russian public and private entities, and several non-state hacking groups have announced support of Ukraine or Russia.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Police seized BulletProftLink phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform Serbian pleads guilty to running ‘Monopoly’ dark web drug market McLaren Health Care revealed that a data breach impacted 2.2 Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box.

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

February 25 – Ukraine: Belarusian APT group UNC1151 targets military personnel with spear phishing. The CERT of Ukraine (CERT-UA) warned of a spear-phishing campaign targeting Ukrainian armed forces personnel. February 19 – White House and UK Gov attribute DDoS attacks on Ukraine to Russia’s GRU. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 2, 2023

Apple fixes actively exploited vulnerability and introduces new features Steer clear of this EE phish that wants your card details 3 tips to raise your backup game 3 tips for creating backups your organization can rely on when ransomware strikes Stay safe!

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Netography Detection Models (NDMs) detect botnets, malware, P2P, data exfiltration, ransomware, phishing, SPAM, DDoS activity, and more. The Netography Threat Research Team has released its latest detections. The post Netography Detection Model Release – February 7, 2023 appeared first on Netography.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for October 2023 covers a total of 103 CVEs, including three zero-day vulnerabilities affecting WordPad, Skype and the HTTP/2 “ Rapid Reset ” DDoS vulnerability. CVE-2023-41763 , an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Skype for Business with a CVSS score of 5.3

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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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