The Last Watchdog

JULY 18, 2023

It may sound inflated to hear that the study found 34% of Americans have used web hosting services. But not when considering that there are more than a billion websites live on the web, with more than 250,000 new web sites created every day.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Margaret’s Health is the first hospital to cite a cyberattack as a reason for its closure A database containing data of +8.9

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

pic.twitter.com/ucfPwk7zi6 — 安坂星海 Azaka VTuber (@AzakaSekai_) February 18, 2024 Azaka noticed that the hacking firm has a DDoS system relying on a bot that can infect Windows, Linux, or generic IoT devices. The standard version is disguised as a Xiaomi battery, whilst the mini version is just a plain PCB that can be inside anything.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2020

Maze ransomware gang hacked M&A firm Threadstone Advisors LLP Ransomware attack disrupts operations at Australian beverage company Lion Tech firms suspend use of ‘biased facial recognition technology Accessories giant Claires is the victim of a Magecart attack, credit card data exposed Black Kingdom ransomware operators exploit Pulse VPN flaws (..)

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2023

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2022

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Hundreds of thousands of fake warnings of cyberattacks sent from a hacked FBI email server GravityRAT returns disguised as an end-to-end encrypted chat app Intel and AMD address high severity vulnerabilities in products and drivers New evolving Abcbot DDoS botnet targets Linux systems Retail giant Costco discloses data breach, payment card data exposed (..)

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2022

QNAP force-installs update against the recent wave of DeadBolt ransomware infections US FCC bans China Unicom Americas telecom over national security risks NCSC warns UK entities of potential destructive cyberattacks from Russia Finnish diplomats’ devices infected with Pegasus spyware Zerodium offers $400,000 for Microsoft Outlook RCE zero-day exploits (..)

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Responsible Cyber

APRIL 8, 2020

DDoS Attacks. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have overwhelmed some of the largest websites in the world, including Reddit, Twitter, and Netflix. DDoS attacks, which ambush businesses with massive amounts of web traffic, slow websites to a crawl and, more often than not, force crucial services offline.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2022

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2022

Pay attention to Log4j attacks, Dutch National Cybersecurity Centre (NCSC) warns Vulnerabilities in Control Web Panel potentially expose Linux Servers to hack US Treasury Department sanctions 4 Ukrainian officials for working with Russian intelligence A bug in McAfee Agent allows running code with Windows SYSTEM privileges Experts warn of anomalous (..)

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Government of Bermuda blames Russian threat actors for the cyber attack City of Dallas has set a budget of $8.5 Government of Bermuda blames Russian threat actors for the cyber attack City of Dallas has set a budget of $8.5

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Source: Cybernews The exposed phone numbers can be exploited for spam, malware and spyware attacks, SIM swapping, and the discovery of user accounts on platforms like WhatsApp, Signal, and others. Notes on users, submitted by admins and customer support agents. The leaked IP addresses introduce the risk of a takeover of a local network.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Experts warn of spike in TCP DDoS reflection attacks targeting Amazon, SoftLayer and telco infrastructure. DDoS-for-Hire Services operator sentenced to 13 months in prison. WhatsApp flaw CVE-2019-11931 could be exploited to install spyware. ZoneAlarm forum site hack exposed data of thousands of users. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

However, these tools tend to be viewed by prosecutors as malware and spyware when their proprietors advertise them as hacking devices and provide customer support aimed at helping buyers deploy the RATs stealthily and evade detection by anti-malware programs. Canadian investigators don’t appear to be buying Revesz’ claims.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2020

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Identity IQ

APRIL 29, 2021

Gaining control of multiple computers to launch denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against other networks. Spyware is software designed to capture your activity and sensitive information without your knowledge or consent. Tricking a target into providing sensitive information for identity theft. How Does Malware Spread?

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

You may be most familiar with computer malware such as Trojan viruses and spyware, which can be used to retrieve sensitive data from a computer or even take control of the system. DDoS Attacks. It’s no wonder, then, that the average organization experiences eight DDoS attacks per day.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2019

Android Spyware Monokle, developed by Russian defense contractor, used in targeted attacks. Imperva blocked the largest Layer 7 DDoS attack it has ever seen. Emsisoft releases the third decryptor in a few days, this time for LooCipher ransomware. Malvertising campaign exploits recently disclosed WordPress Plugin flaws.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2019

A new DDoS technique abuses HTML5 Hyperlink Audit Ping in massive attacks. Scranos – A Cross Platform, Rootkit-Enabled Spyware rapidly spreading. Romanian duo convicted of fraud Scheme infecting 400,000 computers. Security Affairs newsletter Round 209 – News of the week. Whatsapp, Instagram, Facebook down worldwide.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Swedish Government grants police the use of spyware against violent crime suspects. DDoS Attack on Amazon Web Services caused intermittently outage. Robots at HIS Group are vulnerable to hack. FBI and DHS CISA issue alerts on e-skimming attacks. Texas man sentenced to 145 months in federal prison for hacking Los Angeles Superior Court.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

Yet the list of features and plugins advertised for this RAT includes functionality that goes significantly beyond what one might see in a traditional remote administration tool, such as DDoS-for-hire capabilities, and the ability to disable the light indicator on webcams so as not to alert the target that the RAT is active. “It

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 14, 2019

On Friday, a 34-year-old Connecticut man received a whopping 10-year prison sentence for carrying out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a number of hospitals in 2014. Kaye ultimately received a suspended sentence for the attack in Germany, and was sent back to the U.K. to face charges there.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Threat actors can develop fake mobile apps to install adware, steal PII and financial data, extract cookies and credentials, and download further payloads (such as spyware) from a remote-controlled domain. 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

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Attackers often use botnets to send out spam or phishing campaigns to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Additional features of botnets include spam, ad and click fraud, and spyware. Spyware is any type of software that gathers information about someone without their knowledge or consent. Jump ahead: Adware.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2020

The researchers pointed out that SEA group was active in recent weeks, it has launched DDoS attacks against Belgian media and claimed responsibility for the defacement of PayPal and eBay websites. AndoServer samples are purely surveillance software used to spy on the victims, while SLRat is as an Android remote admin tool.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Gov imposes visa restrictions on individuals misusing Commercial Spyware HPE is investigating claims of a new security breach Experts warn of a surge of attacks targeting Ivanti SSRF flaw How to hack the Airbus NAVBLUE Flysmart+ Manager Crooks stole $25.5

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

DDoS (denial-of-service attack) – a type of a cyber attack which makes the site user wants to visit unusable by flooding it with malicious traffic. Spyware – malware that spies on the computer to collect the information about a product, a company, a person. The most widespread spyware are keyloggers and trojans.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2020

Spyware turned out to be the most common malware class hiding in fraudulent COVID-19 emails, with AgentTesla topping the list of phishers’ favorite strains. Spyware: the most likely COVID-19 payload. Most COVID-19-related phishing emails analyzed had different spyware strains embedded as attachments. Source: CERT-GIB.

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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 Virtual Kidnapping: AI Tools Are Enabling IRL Extortion Scams How a ‘Refund Fraud’ Gang Stole $700,000 From Amazon Info from 5.6

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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. The problem: Researchers discovered a flaw in the way Cloudflare trusts Cloudflare customers. The fix: Cisco has already released an update, so browsers may be updated immediately.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In most cases, scammers, as before, claimed to have used spyware to film the blackmail victim watching adult videos. A company was told to transfer a certain amount to a Bitcoin wallet to prevent a DDoS attack that the cybercriminals threatened to unleash upon it. Interestingly, the cybercriminals did not limit their threats to DDoS.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

US CISA added critical Apache RocketMQ flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Ragnar Locker gang leaks data stolen from the Israel’s Mayanei Hayeshua hospital North Korea-linked threat actors target cybersecurity experts with a zero-day Zero-day in Cisco ASA and FTD is actively exploited in ransomware attacks Nation-state actors (..)

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Security Boulevard

MAY 31, 2023

Seceon will again be participating with AGC Partners in its 14th Annual Boston Technology Growth Conference to be held on Thursday, November 9th. The AGC Partner Conference is a premier showcase for fast growing, predominantly private technology companies.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 31, 2023

Seceon will again be participating with AGC Partners in its 14th Annual Boston Technology Growth Conference to be held on Thursday, November 9th. The AGC Partner Conference is a premier showcase for fast growing, predominantly private technology companies.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

From mining cryptocurrency to launching DDoS attacks against networks, there are countless ways in which malware can access and utilize victim’s computers and data. It is not unusual to have your system or network infected with malware, such as spyware, that often lingers secretly with no apparent symptoms. Warning signs. Common types.

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