Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Department of Justice (DOJ) today seized four-dozen domains that sold “booter” or “stresser” services — businesses that make it easy and cheap for even non-technical users to launch powerful Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks designed knock targets offline. The DOJ also charged six U.S.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 14, 2021

. “A few hours ago, we lost access to the public part of our infrastructure,” the message continues, explaining the outage affected its victim shaming blog where stolen data is published from victims who refuse to pay a ransom. Several apparent customers of the service reported they were unable to access BitMix in the last week.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Cloudflare mitigated a record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) that reached 71 Million requests per second. Cloudflare announced it has mitigated a record hyper-volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at over 71 million requests per second (RPS). ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Cloudflare mitigated a record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Wynncraft, one of the largest Minecraft servers. Cloudflare announced it has mitigated a record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Wynncraft, one of the largest Minecraft servers.

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

We can confirm that our flight operations systems and customer facing systems were not affected. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) confirmed that the attack impacted check-in kiosks and electronic gates at airports. No customer information was accessed.” ” reads the statement published by the company.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The IQ of our smart homes is about to level-up. Hundreds of different types of smart devices designed to automate tasks and route control to our smart phones and wearable devices have arrived on store shelves, just in time for the holiday shopping season. LW provides consulting services to the vendors we cover.) identification.”

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Most of the people I know professionally and personally don’t spend a lot of time contemplating the true price we pay for the amazing digital services we’ve all become addicted to. We have no control over how the tech giants extract and profit from the intrinsic value of our personal data. I’ll use myself as a prime example.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2023

Sicuranex’s PWNPress platform indexed over 15 million WordPress websites, it collects data related to vulnerabilities and misconfigurations Leveraging the extensive Common Crawl dataset and pushing the boundaries of data analysis, cybersecurity firm Sicuranex successfully indexed over 15 million WordPress websites using the PWNPress service.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

million of annual recurring subscription revenue (ARR), including professional services. Our approach with this customer is following our land-and-expand strategy. Tunkelo “We are excited to have this leading global financial institution enter their Zero Trust journey with our help,” said Dr. Teemu Tunkelo , CEO of SSH.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2021

“We’re currently investigating potential impact to performance with our CDN services,” reads the statement published by Fastly on its status website. A content delivery network , or content distribution network ( CDN ) , is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2021

A massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack shut down Belgiums’ government websites, internal networks were also impacted. A massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack hit most of the Belgium government ’s IT network, according to the media the attack also knocked offline internal systems.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 26, 2021

Henceforth companies will be able to insert their trademarked logos in Gmail’s avatar slot; many marketers can’t wait to distribute email carrying certified logos to billions of inboxes. DigiCert is a Lehi, Utah-based Certificate Authority (CA) and supplier of Public Key Infrastructure services. This was the BIMI steering committee.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2023

Zoom changed its terms of service requiring users to allow AI to train on all their data without giving them an opt-out option. Zoom updated its terms of service and informed users that it will train its artificial intelligence models using some of its data. Service Generated Data; Consent to Use. “ 10.2

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2021

The Philippine human rights alliance Karapatan has suffered a massive and prolonged Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, Qurium organizations linked it to the local government. Qurium’s forensics report reveals that the attack is proxied via 30,000 bots distributed in Russia, Ukraine, Indonesia and China.

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Reltio

MAY 8, 2023

Reltio is pleased to share that we have selected Spanner, Google’s distributed SQL database service, as our primary database for our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) operations. The database service is also highly scalable, with automatic elastic scaling, on-demand capacity, and unlimited storage.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

China Mobile and China Unicom), even though they do not provide any service to the device (i.e. EU) Android OS distributions from the same OS developers. The smartphones analyzed by the r researchers were observed sending data to the device vendor and the Chinese mobile network operators (e.g.,

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2024

The Blackjack group is believed to be affiliated with Ukrainian intelligence services that carried out other attacks against Russian targets, including an internet provider and a military infrastructure. Access to 112 Emergency Service. The site also hosts password dumps allegedly stolen from the Russian company.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2023

During the period covered by the report, the expert identified the following prime threats: ransomware attacks (38%), data related threats (30%), malware (17%), denial-of-service (DoS), distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and ransom denial-of-service (RDoS) attacks (16%), phishing / spear phishing (10%), supply-chain attacks (10%).

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

Cloud storage is a cloud computing model that allows data storage on remote servers operated by a service provider, accessible via internet connections. It’s a scalable and cost-effective storage solution for businesses offered through a subscription service.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2022

“The Veeam Distribution Service (TCP 9380 by default) allows unauthenticated users to access internal API functions. ” The flaws reside in the Veeam Distribution Service that allows unauthenticated users to access internal API functions. .” reads the advisory published by the company. are not available.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The threat actor behind the RomCom RAT (remote access trojan) has refreshed its attack vector and is now abusing well-known software brands for distribution. Then they trojanizing a legitimate application and distributed it through the decoy website, deploying targeted phishing emails to the victims.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 10, 2023

For a full drill down on our discussion, please watch the accompanying videocast. The Internet of Everything requires distributing billions more data capture sensors far and wide to form sprawling, interoperable digital shrouds overlapping one another. LW provides consulting services to the vendors we cover.)

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2023

Threat actors are abusing the legitimate Adobe Acrobat Sign service to distribute the RedLine information stealer. Avast researchers reported that threat actors are abusing the legitimate Adobe Acrobat Sign service to distribute the RedLine information stealer. ” concludes the report.

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Collibra

JUNE 15, 2023

As businesses scale data and analytics capabilities, the importance of a self-service data infrastructure becomes increasingly critical. And for your data mesh model to work, a self-service infrastructure is essential for managing the complexities of data products and implementing governance policies. What is data mesh?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2023

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. “The Information Technology and Cyber ​​Security Service (STISC) warns of scam and phishing cyber attack campaigns targeting government institutions.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

“Our IT experts are pushing back against it and protecting our systems. Our IT experts are pushing back against it & protecting our systems. Our IT experts are pushing back against it & protecting our systems. This traffic is related to a DDOS attack (Distributed Denial of Service) event.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

With our long history of working with clients across the globe—and especially in highly regulated industries—we understand the unique requirements enterprises are facing and are prepared to help them address their emerging regulatory demands. And our work doesn’t stop there.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 15, 2023

They will receive direct inputs from our environment, in all the forms I thought about in 2016. And they will increasingly control our environment, through IoT devices and beyond. Arguing with customer service—on chat—for service changes and refunds. But our new robots are different.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2021

Russian national Oleg Koshkin was convicted for operating a “crypting” service used to obfuscate the Kelihos bot from antivirus software. Russian national Oleg Koshkin was convicted for charges related to the operation of a malware crypting service used by the Kelihos botnet to obfuscate malware and evade detection.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Russian national Oleg Koshkin was convicted in January for charges related to the operation of a malware crypting service used by the Kelihos botnet to obfuscate malware and evade detection. Koshkin provided Levashov with a custom crypting service that was used to distribute Kelihos through multiple criminal affiliates.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Dutch police warn customers of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) website of stopping using the service to avoid prosecution. Dutch police warn customers of a booter service, abused to carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, of to stop using it to avoid prosecution. and Overheid.nl

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2023

The StrongPity APT group targeted Android users with a trojanized version of the Telegram app served through a website impersonating a video chat service called Shagle. The campaign has been active since November 2021, threat actors served the malicious app through a website impersonating a video chat service called Shagle.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 26, 2024

Let’s draw a comparison between Hybrid Cloud Mesh and a typical service mesh to better understand the nuances of these essential components in the realm of modern enterprise connectivity. Before we delve into the comparison, let’s briefly revisit the concept of Hybrid Cloud Mesh and a typical service mesh.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Experts discovered two new malicious dropper apps on the Google Play Store distributing the Xenomorph banking malware. Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers discovered a couple of malicious dropper apps on the Play Store distributing the Xenomorph banking malware. It starts with asking users to enable access permission.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

A powerful DDoS attack hit some Hungarian banking and telecommunication services that briefly disrupted them. The distributed denial of service attack was able to disrupt the services of some of the banks in the country causing temporary interruptions in Magyar Telekom’s services in certain parts of the capital, Budapest.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Welcome to our September 2023 catches of the month feature, which examines recent phishing scams and the tactics criminals use to trick people into compromising their data. More recently, it has mainly distributed the JSSLoader malware for the Sangria Tempest group. It appears, however, in the target inbox as a file, not a link.”

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