2018
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DDoS Attacks Target Multiple Games including Final Fantasy XIV, Assassin’s Creed
A set of DDoS attacks plagued a series of gaming publishers including Final Fantasy XIV ’s creator Square Enix and Assassin’s Creed publisher Ubisoft, respectively on the day…
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Hackers target the Queensland government with online attacks
International hackers have targeted the Queensland government, with cyber security experts being forced to defend against several potentially disastrous online attacks. Last year, state government IT experts prevented…
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100,000-Plus Home Routers Hijacked in Campaign to Steal Banking Credentials
The GhostDNS campaign, which has been mainly targeting consumers in Brazil, has exploded in scope since August. An unknown attacker has hijacked over 100,000 home routers and changed…
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Are Your Applications Secure?
Executives express mixed feelings and a surprisingly high level of confidence in Radware’s 2018 Web Application Security Report. As we close out a year of headline-grabbing data breaches…
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Could Your Organisation’s Servers Be A Botnet?
Most organisations are aware that they could be the target of a DDoS attack and have deployed protection to keep their public-facing services online in the face of…
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‘Torii’ Breaks New Ground For IoT Malware
Stealth, persistence mechanism and ability to infect a wide swath of devices make malware dangerous and very different from the usual Mirai knockoffs, Avast says. A dangerous and…
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190 UK Universities Targeted with Hundreds of DDoS Attacks
A large number of security attacks have been targeting universities all over the UK. Over 850 DDoS attacks were analyzed across 190 universities. Security experts suspect students or…
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Beware of Torii! Security experts discover the ‘most sophisticated botnet ever seen’ – and say it is targeting smart home gadgets
Researchers from Avast have identified a worrying botnet affecting IoT devices Called ‘Torii,’ the virus infects devices at a server level that have weak encryption Virus can fetch…
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Security breaches costing UK SMBs millions
Cybercriminals have moved on from large enterprises and are now targeting SMBs. While large organisations may offer a bigger payload, cybercriminals are increasingly targeting small and medium-sized businesses…