Not that we’re urging them to try harder or anything A series of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks shut down nine Danish hospitals’ websites for a few hours on Sunday, but did not have any life-threatening impact on the medical centers’ operations or digital infrastructure.…
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Russian hacktivists DDoS hospitals, with pathetic results
The war in Ukraine has seen the emergence of new forms of cyberattacks, and hacktivists became savvier and more emboldened to deface sites, leak information and execute DDoS attacks, according to Trellix. “Q4 saw malicious actors push the limits of attack vectors,” said John Fokker, Head of Threat Intelligence, Trellix Advanced Research Center. “Grey zone conflict and hacktivism have both led to an increase in cyber as statecraft as well as a rise in activity … More ? The post Malicious actors push the limits of attack vectors appeared first on Help Net Security .
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Malicious actors push the limits of attack vectors
In other words, script kiddies up to shenanigans again A series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks shut down seven German airports’ websites on Thursday, a day after a major IT glitch at Lufthansa grounded flights.…
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‘Russian hacktivists’ claim responsibility for DDoSing German airport websites
Neustar Security Services is launching UltraPlatform, a solution that leverages three Neustar Security Services’ offerings critical to protecting organizations’ online assets and infrastructure: an authoritative domain name system (DNS) service, protection against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and a web application firewall (WAF). To create this unified solution, UltraPlatform blends components from Neustar Security Services’ UltraDNS, UltraDDoS Protect and UltraWAF offerings: UltraDNS is the premier managed authoritative DNS service that ensures accurate, safe and reliable connections. … More ? The post Neustar Security Services UltraPlatform protects enterprises’ digital assets appeared first on Help Net Security .
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Put pro-Putin bots on the do not call list A free tool aims is helping organizations defend against KillNet distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) bots and comes as the US government issued a warning that the Russian cybercrime gang is stepping up its network flooding attacks against hospitals and health clinics.…
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Here’s a list of proxy IPs to help block KillNet’s DDoS bots
We devoting full time to floating under /etc A sneaky botnet dubbed HeadCrab that uses bespoke malware to mine for Monero has infected at least 1,200 Redis servers in the last 18 months.…
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HeadCrab bots pinch 1,000+ Redis servers to mine coins
The number of DDoS attacks we see around the globe is on the rise, and that trend is likely to continue throughout 2023, according to Corero. We expect to see attackers deploy ever higher rate request-based or packets-per-second attacks. “DDoS attacks have historically focused around sending packets of large sizes with the aim to paralyze and disrupt the internet pipeline by exceeding the available bandwidth. Recent request-based attacks, however, are sending smaller size packets, to … More ? The post Cybercriminals create new methods to evade legacy DDoS defenses appeared first on Help Net Security .
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Upgraded threat, time to patch The Zerobot botnet, first detected earlier this month, is expanding the types of Internet of Things (IoT) devices it can compromise by going after Apache systems.…
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Zerobot malware now shooting for Apache systems
Cops give denial-of-service sites an extra special denial of service Police around the globe have seized as many as 50 internet domains said to be involved in tens of millions of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks worldwide. Seven people were collared during the swoop.…
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Sting op takes down 50 DDoS-for-hire domains, seven people collared
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