2018
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DDoS Attack on German Energy Company RWE
Protesters in Germany have been camping out at the Hambach Forest, where the German energy company RWE has plans to mine for coal. Meanwhile, it’s been reported that…
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Don’t Look Away, Peekaboo Vulnerability May Allow Hackers to Play the Long Game
The newly named Peekaboo vulnerability is a zero-day flaw in China-based Nuuo’s video recorder technology.The flaw in NVRMini2, a network-attached storage device, has remained unfixed in the three…
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DDoS Attack on Infinite Campus Limits Parent Access
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Infinite Campus, an educational software provider that houses the parent portal for Oklahoma City Public Schools, created access issues for those parents…
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DDoS attack on education vendor hinders access to districts’ online portals
Multiple school districts are reportedly suffering the effects of a denial of service attack perpetrated against Blaine, Minn.-based Infinite Campus, a third-party online services provider. As a result,…
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Some credential-stuffing botnets don’t care about being noticed any more
They just take a battering ram to the gates The bots spewing out malicious login attempts by the bucketload appear to have cranked it up a notch.…
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Mirai creators sentenced to probation after assisting FBI with cyber investigations
Three young men who developed and deployed the original Mirai IoT botnet malware were sentenced on Tuesday in an Alaskan federal court to five years probation – a…
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3 Drivers Behind the Increasing Frequency of DDoS Attacks
What’s causing the uptick? Motivation, opportunity, and new capabilities. According to IDC Research’s recent US DDoS Prevention Survey, more than 50% of IT security decision makers said that…
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California Dem hit with DDoS attacks during failed primary bid: report
The campaign website of a Democratic congressional candidate in California was taken down by cyberattacks several times during the primary election season, according to cybersecurity experts. Rolling Stone reported…
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IoT malware grew significantly during the first half of 2018
New research from Kaspersky Lab reveals how cybercriminals are targeting IoT devices. During the first half of 2018, malware designed specifically for Internet of Things (IoT) devices grew…