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Cyber Warfare Doesn’t Take a Break During Coronavirus Season
US Health Agencies Are Fending off DDoS Attacks and Disinformation Campaigns in the Midst of a Pandemic Unfettered by social distancing measures or economic concerns, cyber threat actors…
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Across-the-board increase in DDoS attacks of all sizes
There has been a 168% increase in DDoS attacks in Q4 2019, compared with Q4 2018, and a 180% increase overall in 2019 vs. 2018, according to Neustar.…
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Zyxel NAS, firewalls and LILIN DVRs and IP cameras conscripted into IoT botnets
A wide variety of Zyxel and LILIN IoT devices are being conscripted into several botnets, researchers have warned. Users are advised to implement the provided firmware updates to…
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Healthcare cybersecurity in the time of coronavirus
Brno University Hospital, in Brno, Czech Republic, which is one of the country’s Covid-19 testing centers, has recently been hit by a cyberattack. The nature of the attack…
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US Health and Human Services targeted by DDoS scum at just the time it’s needed to be up and running
Miscreants also hammer Euro websites as well, because why not? In an impeccable instance of horrible timing, the US government’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) says…
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DDoS attacks could affect next generation 911 call systems
Despite a previous warning by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers, who exposed vulnerabilities in 911 systems due to DDoS attacks, the next generation of 911 systems…
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Microsoft nukes 9 million-strong Necurs botnet after unpicking domain name-generating algorithm
Takedown should (in theory) see spam volumes shrink rapidly Microsoft has bragged of downing a nine million-strong Russian botnet responsible for vast quantities of email spam.…
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Hackers are getting hacked via trojanized hacking tools
Someone has been trojanizing a wide variety of hacking tools to compromise the machines of hackers who want to use the tools for free, Cybereason researcher Amit Serper…
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Ransomware getting more fearsome, but there’s reason for optimism
Cybercriminals continued a barrage of attacks in 2019, spurred on by botnets of infected IoT devices and by attacker interest in the Eternal Blue vulnerability. A report from…
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8.4 million: Number of DDoS attacks researchers saw last year alone
Netscout released the findings of its Threat Intelligence Report for the second half of 2019, which also incorporates insights from its 15th Annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report (WISR)…