A ‘sophisticated, global botnet’ held an Eastern European biz under siege over 30 days Akamai Technologies squelched the largest-ever distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in Europe earlier this month against a company that was being consistently hammered over a 30-day period.…
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Akamai: We stopped record DDoS attack in Europe
Emerging threat group offers a broad range of attack services An emerging and fast-growing threat group is using a unique business model to offer cybercriminals a broad range of services that span from leaked databases and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to hacking scripts and, in the future, potentially ransomware.…
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Cyber-mercenaries for hire represent shifting criminal business model
Can’t get into that machine? No problem, just trust this completely sketchy looking tool Industrial engineers and operators are being lured into running backdoor malware disguised as tools for recovering access to work systems.…
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Botnet malware disguises itself as password cracker for industrial controllers
NETSCOUT SYSTEMS launched a new, innovative AI-based solution enabling its customers to automatically and instantaneously block a large proportion of DDoS attacks thus simplifying operations and minimizing risk to their businesses. The solution leverages NETSCOUT’s ATLASnetwork, an unmatched source of visibility into DDoS attack activity on the Internet. Multiple ATLAS datasets are analyzed, curated, and correlated using artificial intelligence. This automated intelligent pipeline is developed using NETSCOUT’s ATLAS Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT) expertise … More ? The post NETSCOUT launches AI solution to help customers block DDoS attacks appeared first on Help Net Security .
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NETSCOUT launches AI solution to help customers block DDoS attacks
G-Core Labs’ XDP-based DDoS protection platform filters bad traffic across a network of high capacity CDNs Sponsored Post If you do any sort of business via the web, the damage caused by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack could be catastrophic for your bottom line.…
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How to survive a SYN flood attack
If you’re wondering why, here’s a primer Sponsored Post How would you describe the biggest security threat to your organization? Perhaps you envision a faceless cybercrime syndicate or hostile state. Or a humming botnet, remorselessly probing your systems.…
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How to spot your biggest security threat? Just look out for the humans
Ransomware detections in the first quarter of this year doubled the total volume reported for 2021, according to the latest quarterly Internet Security Report from the WatchGuard Threat Lab. Researchers also found that the Emotet botnet came back in a big way, the infamous Log4Shell vulnerability tripled its attack efforts and malicious cryptomining activity increased. Although findings from the Threat Lab’s Q4 2021 report showed ransomware attacks trending down year over year, that all changed … More ? The post EMEA continues to be a hotspot for malware threats appeared first on Help Net Security .
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EMEA continues to be a hotspot for malware threats
$200 a day buys you 90,000 victims A Russian operated botnet known as RSOCKS has been shut down by the US Department of Justice acting with law enforcement partners in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. It is believed to have compromised millions of computers and other devices around the globe.…
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International operation takes down Russian RSOCKS botnet
26m requests a second? Not legit traffic, not even Bill Gates doing $1m giveaways could manage that Cloudflare said it this month staved off another record-breaking HTTPS-based distributed denial-of-service attack, this one significantly larger than the previous largest DDoS attack that occurred only two months ago.…
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Cloudflare says it thwarted record-breaking HTTPS DDoS flood
Crimeware groups are re-inventing themselves The criminals behind the Emotet botnet – which rose to fame as a banking trojan before evolving into spamming and malware delivery – are now using it to target credit card information stored in the Chrome web browser.…
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Emotet malware gang re-emerges with Chrome-based credit card heistware