Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Air Canada did not share details about the attack, at the time of this writing, no known extortion group has claimed responsibility for the cyber attack. The attacks severely impacted operations at several Canadian airports last week. The attacks severely impacted operations at several Canadian airports last week.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2019

DISCLOSURE OF COMPANY FACILITATING MASSIVE CYBER ATTACKS AGAINST MORE THAN 20 REGIME CRITICAL PHILIPPINE WEBSITES DISCLOSURE OF COMPANY FACILITATING MASSIVE CYBER ATTACKS AGAINST MORE THAN 20 REGIME CRITICAL PHILIPPINE WEBSITES. Attacks escalated and included more websites, a total of 20 organizations, in January 2019.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2019

Demonstration in front of the National CERT of Philippines for failing to act on cyber attacks targeting regime critical media and civil society organizations. Since the attacks only target regime critical sources, they are likely to be politically motivated and perhaps even state supported.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Security experts from IBM are targeting Drupal vulnerabilities, including the CVE-2018-7600 and CVE-2018-7602 flaws, aka Drupalgeddon2 and Drupalgeddon3 , to install a backdoor on the infected systems and tack full control of the hosted platforms. ” states the post published by IBM.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. . · Experts presented BOTCHAIN, the first fully functional Botnet built upon the Bitcoin Protocol. · Apple and Samsung fined millions for “planned obsolescence” of old smartphones. · A few dollars to bring down sites with new Bushido-based DDoS-for-hire service.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Law enforcement worldwide hunting users of DDoS-for-Hire services. Netanyahu accuses Iran of cyber attacks carried out daily. Reading the ENISA Threat Landscape Report 2018. Imperva mitigated DDoS attack generated 500 Million Packets per Second, the largest ever.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Duke-Cohan sentenced to three years in prison due to false bomb threats and DDoS. A new variant of Shamoon was uploaded to Virus Total while Saipem was under attack. Cyber attack hit the Italian oil and gas services company Saipem. New threat actor SandCat exploited recently patched CVE-2018-8611 0day.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

. · Firefox DoS issue crashes the browser and sometimes the Windows OS. · Akamai Report: Credential stuffing attacks are a growing threat. · Bitcoin Core Team fixes a critical DDoS flaw in wallet software. · SHEIN Data breach affected 6.42 Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2018

2018 was the year of the Internet of Things (IoT), massive attacks and various botnets hit smart devices, These are 5 IoT Security Predictions for 2019. IoT Attacks in 2018. Yet, the major attack of 2018 was definitely VPNFilter, hitting over half a million devices, mostly routers, from a wide range of known vendors.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Sometimes when you are down in the cyber attack trees defending your organization, it can be tough to see the cyber threat forest. And now we have brand new research coming from the EU which unpacks the top cyber threats as they stand now. Web-based Attacks. Web Application Attacks. Identity Theft.

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The Security Ledger

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Three years after the Mirai botnet launched some of the biggest denial of service attacks ever seen, DDoS is a bigger problem and ever. Three years after the Mirai botnet launched some of the biggest denial of service attacks ever seen, DDoS is a bigger problem and ever. That was a 34% jump from the same period in 2018.

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Responsible Cyber

APRIL 8, 2020

Small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly at risk of cyber-attacks, and often serve as a launch pad for larger threat campaigns, according to Cisco’s 2018 SMB Cybersecurity Report. DDoS Attacks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2020

Austria’s foreign ministry was the victim of a cyber-attack that is suspected to have been conducted by a foreign state due to its level of sophistication. ” Media pointed out that the attack took place on the same day Austria’s Green party backed forming a coalition with conservatives. Major cyber ??attacks

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Approachable Cyber Threats

AUGUST 10, 2022

In the modern age, nation states are expanding the battlefield with targeted cyber attacks on their adversaries. Why cyber attacks?” DDoS attacks are meant to cause major disruption to an adversary nation and wreak havoc in a number of ways. Category Awareness, Case Study, Vulnerability. Risk Level.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

2000 — Mafiaboy — 15-year-old Michael Calce, aka MafiaBoy, a Canadian high school student, unleashes a DDoS attack on several high-profile commercial websites including Amazon, CNN, eBay and Yahoo! An industry expert estimates the attacks resulted in $1.2 In one week, the Scientology website is hit with 500 DDoS attacks. .

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SC Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

This week, cybersecurity firm Akamai said they have observed more than 246 million web application attacks levied against the gaming industry between 2019 and 2020. That represents a 340% increase year-over-year, a 415% increase since 2018 and accounted for about 4% of the more than 6.3

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Penetration testing is a similar approach, but typically involves teams of security pros attempting to simulate a cyber attack to identify weaknesses that could be exploited by hackers. 12, 2018 article by Cynthia Harvey The post Application Security: Complete Definition, Types & Solutions appeared first on eSecurityPlanet.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 14, 2020

2018 was a breakthrough year for consumer rights and data privacy regulations with the introduction of GDPR. In addition, high bandwidth will empower criminals to launch much larger data breaches and attacks that could cripple entire enterprise networks. So what’s in store for data privacy and the rollout of of 5G technology?

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

If the victim organization is slow to pay up, even though its files are encrypted and some of its confidential data has been stolen, the attackers additionally threaten to carry out a DDoS attack. In addition to DDoS attacks, it has added spam and calls to clients and partners of the victim company to its toolbox. .

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Ransomware an ongoing threat to industry as crime gangs organise Malware-based cyber-attacks are the most prominent threat to industry, Europol says. A companion to Europol’s IOCTA 2023 report , it digs deeper into malware – ransomware in particular – and DDoS attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 13, 2022

Supporting the above stated discovery is the latest press statement released by security firm Mandiant that suggests that it has been tracking Seedworm aka MuddyWater since May 2017 and it is into activities such as digital espionage, cyber attacks, Ddos and ransomware spread.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 7, 2023

For example, DDoS attacks and unauthorized encryption (e.g. ransomware) were not a data breach" unless attackers were able to view or copy/ transmit data out of the environment. 2018) "Causes of Death". Miscellaneous Errors: misconfigured server, email sent to the wrong person etc. Do those perceptions reflect reality?

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 6, 2023

For example, DDoS attacks and unauthorized encryption (e.g. ransomware) were not a “data breach" unless attackers were able to view or copy/ transmit data out of the environment. 2018) "Causes of Death". Miscellaneous Errors: misconfigured server, email sent to the wrong person etc. Do those perceptions reflect reality?

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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

One way to address the question of what we perceive as cybersecurity incident and breach causes was inspired by Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser’s 2018 article [2] comparing causes of death data to what the New York Times, The Guardian, and Google Trends covered as causes of death. 2018) "Causes of Death".

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

One way to address the question of what we perceive as cybersecurity breach causes was inspired by Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser’s 2018 article comparing causes of death data to what the New York Times, The Guardian, and Google Trends covered as causes of death. 2018) "Causes of Death". 2021 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 7, 2023

For example, DDoS attacks and unauthorized encryption (e.g. ransomware) were not a “data breach" unless attackers were able to view or copy/ transmit data out of the environment. 2018) "Causes of Death". Miscellaneous Errors: misconfigured server, email sent to the wrong person etc. Do those perceptions reflect reality?

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

One way to address the question of what we perceive as cybersecurity breach causes was inspired by Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser’s 2018 article comparing causes of death data to what the New York Times, The Guardian, and Google Trends covered as causes of death. 2018) "Causes of Death". 2021 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In July 2001, the Code Red Worm attempted to subject the entire Internet to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Eventually, the infected computers were all directed to attempt a DDoS specifically on whitehouse.gov, though the White House managed to sidestep the assault. GandCrab burst onto the scene in 2018.

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