Where’s the Night’s Watch when you need them? Microsoft has warned Europe to be on alert for cyber attacks from Russia this winter, just as a series of attacks hit Russian organizations – including the country’s second-largest bank.…
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Microsoft: (Cyber) winter is coming as DDoS attack disrupts Russian bank
Cashdollar – ‘It’s not often we get this kind of story in security’ Somewhere out there, a botnet operator is kicking themselves and probably hoping no one noticed the typo they transmitted in a command that crashed their whole operation. …
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KmsdBot botnet is down after operator sends typo in command
The hype and popularity of the FIFA World Cup has attracted audiences from across the globe. And this, in turn attracts a variety of cybercriminals, who want to exploit the varied fan following, and the organizations participating, to make a quick buck. Advanced persistent threat (APT) campaigns, phishing, credit card/cryptocurrency fraud, DDoS attacks, and identity theft are among the threats faced by organizations and audiences, CloudSEK reports. The cybercriminals are motivated by financial gain, ideology, … More ? The post Cybercriminals are cashing in on FIFA World Cup-themed cyberattacks appeared first on Help Net Security .
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Cybercriminals are cashing in on FIFA World Cup-themed cyberattacks
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Google seeks to make Cobalt Strike useless to attackers Google Cloud’s intelligence research and applications team has created and released a collection of 165 YARA rules to help defenders flag Cobalt Strike components deployed by attackers. Fake subscription invoices lead to corporate data theft and extortion A threat actor dubbed Luna Moth has been leveraging social engineering and legitimate software … More ? The post Week in review: 5 free CISA resources, surviving a DDoS attack, Google to make Cobalt Strike useless appeared first on Help Net Security .
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Week in review: 5 free CISA resources, surviving a DDoS attack, Google to make Cobalt Strike useless
DDoS started not long after Russia was declared a state sponsor of terrorism The European Parliament has experienced a cyber attack that started not long after it declared Russia to be a state sponsor of terrorism.…
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European Parliament Putin things back together after cyber attack
No online business can afford to neglect malicious bot threats. Attackers and fraudsters increasingly leverage bots to automate and coordinate attacks, driving IT teams and ill-equipped security tools to their limits. Only a full-endpoint, 360° bot protection solution that leverages aggregate global detection signals can save you from unexpected threats. Case in point: A large e-commerce website protected by DataDome’s bot and online fraud management solution recently remained blissfully unaffected throughout a high volume, highly-distributed … More ? The post Out of the blue: Surviving an 18-hour, 39M-request DDoS attack appeared first on Help Net Security .
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Out of the blue: Surviving an 18-hour, 39M-request DDoS attack
Judge tells tale of two men, their lawyer, and a ‘willful campaign… to mislead the court’ A New York judge has issued a default judgment against two Russian nationals who are alleged to have helped create the “Glupteba” botnet, sold fraudulent credit card information, and generated cryptocurrency using the network.…
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Google wins lawsuit against alleged Russian botnet herders
And it’s been sending out hundreds of thousands of malicious emails a day The Emotet malware-delivery botnet is back after a short hiatus, quickly ramping up the number of malicious emails it’s sending and sporting additional capabilities, including changes to its binary and delivering a new version of the IcedID malware dropper.…
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Notorious Emotet botnet returns after a few months off
Imperva releases The State of Security Within eCommerce 2022 report, a 12-month analysis by Imperva Threat Research of cybersecurity threats targeting the retail industry. Retail industry cybersecurity threats A range of automated threats – from account takeover, credit card fraud, web scraping, API abuses, Grinch bots, and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks – were a persistent challenge for the eCommerce industry, threatening online sales and customer satisfaction. The continued barrage of attacks on retailers’ … More ? The post API abuses and attacks create new challenges for retailers appeared first on Help Net Security .
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API abuses and attacks create new challenges for retailers
OK, so you’ve got a botnet. That don’t impress me much Pro-Russia hacktivists’ recent spate of network-flooding bot traffic aimed at US critical infrastructure targets, while annoying, have had “limited success,” according to the FBI.…
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FBI: Russian hacktivists achieve only ‘limited’ DDoS success