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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. Image: SentinelOne.com.

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Top Zeus Botnet Suspect “Tank” Arrested in Geneva

Krebs on Security

The JabberZeus crew’s name is derived from the malware they used, which was configured to send them a Jabber instant message each time a new victim entered a one-time password code into a phishing page mimicking their bank. In the chat below, “lucky12345” is the Zeus author Bogachev: tank: Are you there?

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Worldwide law enforcement action takes down major DDoS booter services

Malwarebytes

Criminals making use of booter services which execute Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks to take down websites will have to try a little bit harder today: A major international operation has taken no fewer than 48 of the most popular booter services offline. The FBI has seized this website for operating as a DDoS-for-hire service.

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Security Vulnerabilities in Dell Laptops

CyberSecurity Insiders

Report released by the firm says that the discovered flaw is actually an amalgamation of 5 different flaws that are present on the Dell BIOS Utility Driver called DBUtil and has been in place since 2009.

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Endpoint security for Mac: 3 best practices

Malwarebytes

Phishing attacks, vulnerability exploits, DDoS attacks, and much more threaten your company’s Macs at any time — and if any of them are successful, it could cost your business millions in lost productivity and information theft. And it’s not just malware you have to worry about with your Mac endpoints.

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The State of Blockchain Applications in Cybersecurity

eSecurity Planet

DDoS: Overwhelming the Network. In the age-old denial of service (DDoS) attack, a fleet of attacker devices can overwhelm an organization’s web server, thus blocking access to legitimate users. Starting with Bitcoin (BTC) in 2009, it’s the on and off again hype of cryptocurrency that’s led the blockchain technology movement.

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Top Database Security Solutions for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Security services and tools include anti-DDoS , SOCaaS , web application firewalls (WAF), data encryption , and more. For customers looking to bundle, Huawei offers vulnerability scanning , WAFs, and advanced DDoS protection. The DBSS database audit supports eight database types including MySQL, Oracle, and SQL Server.

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