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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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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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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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
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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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
Yet another pathetic ‘stunt’ from pro-Kremlin criminals The US Treasury Department has thwarted a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that officials attributed to Russian hacktivist group Killnet.…
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Akamai announced a significant evolution of its DDoS protection platform (Prolexic) with a global rollout of new, fully software-defined scrubbing centers, which will extend its dedicated defense capacity to 20 Tbps and accelerate future product innovations. In the wake of increasingly sophisticated and record-setting DDoS attacks worldwide, the move further enables Akamai Prolexic to defend customers from the largest, multi-terabit attacks and provide better performance and reliability for online businesses of any size, anywhere on … More ? The post Akamai Prolexic enhancements increase protection against rising DDoS threats appeared first on Help Net Security .
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In the first half of 2022, the amount of DDoS attacks increased by 75.6% compared to the second half of 2021, according to new Nexusguard research revealed in the company’s DDoS Statistical Report for 1HY 2022. In this Help Net Security video, Juniman Kasman, CTO at Nexusguard, talks about how, while the total number of attacks did grow, the average (0.59 Gbps) and maximum (232.0 Gbps) attack sizes each decreased by 56% and 66.8%, respectively, … More ? The post Key observations on DDoS attacks in H1 2022 appeared first on Help Net Security .
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The latest Internet Security Report from the WatchGuard Threat Lab shows a reduction in overall malware detections from the peaks seen in the first half of 2021, along with an increase in threats for Chrome and Microsoft Office and the ongoing Emotet botnet resurgence. Office exploits on the rise “While overall malware attacks in Q2 fell off from the all-time highs seen in previous quarters, over 81% of detections came via TLS encrypted connections, continuing … More ? The post Office exploits continue to spread more than any other category of malware appeared first on Help Net Security .
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Office exploits continue to spread more than any other category of malware