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Cyber-attacks continue to make headlines, and wreak havoc for organizations, with no sign of abating. Having spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, threats such as malware, ransomware, and DDoSattacks continue to accelerate. The war in Ukraine has seen likely state-sponsored attacks using these types of DDoSattacks.
According to a research carried out by Check Point Research, a 50% rise in cyberattacks is being witnessed year on year and the target points were mostly touted to be the organizations operating in education/research and military or government sectors.
A Distributed Denial of Service attack shortly known as DDoS resulted in the disruption of internet services across New Zealand leading to shut down or temporary closure of businesses from afternoon today, i.e. September 3rd,2021. To those who are unaware of what is a DDoSattack, here’s a bit of explanation.
Microsoft, the tech giant of America, has announced that it has blocked probably the world’s largest DDoScyberattack observed to date. As per the details available to our Cybersecurity Insiders, the distributed denial of service attack (Ddos) was massive, hitting 3.7 The post Microsoft stops 3.7
On the security front, a research carried out by Cybersecurity Ventures has predicted that the cyberattacks on online business will bring an estimated loss of $6 trillion to companies operating across the globe by 2021 and the gaming industry is said to be impacted the most.
London based Giant Group has confirmed that its IT infrastructure was suffering repercussions gained through a cyberattack on September 24th,2021 and all its phone, email and other payroll related servers were facing digital disruption.
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Cisco Talos researchers have uncovered a malware campaign targeting Ukraine’s IT Army , threat actors are using infostealer malware mimicking a DDoS tool called the “Liberator.” A Telegram channel was used to coordinate the efforts and plan the cyber-attacks that will be conducted by the IT Army. 35) on port 6666.
Cybersecurity Insiders learnt from its sources that the IT infrastructure of multinational corporation Yandex witnessed a peak in the Denial of service attack, shortly known as DDoSattack on September 5th,2021, i.e. on teachers’ day this year. million RPS attacks on August 7th-9th, 9.6 Go application.
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The Nobel Foundation and the Norwegian Nobel Institute have disclosed a cyber-attack that unfolded during the award ceremony on December 10, 2021. [.].
. “The FBI, CISA, and MS-ISAC assess malicious cyber actors are targeting kindergarten through twelfth grade (K-12) educational institutions, leading to ransomware attacks, the theft of data, and the disruption of distance learning services. ” “ reads the alert issued by CISA. ” states the alert.
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Just as the emergence of COVID-19 led to changes in how threat actors launched attacks, the return to work and school that began in the second half of 2021 (before Omicron reared its ugly head in November) resulted in a number of changes on the part of cyberattackers. To read this article in full, please click here
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A CyberAttack that hit servers of several banking institutions of New Zealand(NZ) has disrupted the online services for over a week now. And the bank issued an apology for the service disruption and disclosed on its Facebook page that they were back by Sunday afternoon, i.e. September 12th,2021.
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The popular collective Anonymous declared war on Russia for the illegitimate invasion of Ukraine and announced a series of cyberattacks calling to action its members. February 24 – Data wiper attacks on Ukraine were planned at least in November and used ransomware as decoy. Pierluigi Paganini.
While the impact of these destructive cyber-attacks paled in comparison to the effects of the kinetic attacks taking place at the same time, it should be noted that this capability could in theory be directed against any country outside of the context of an armed conflict and under the pretense of traditional cybercrime activity.
According to cybersecurity firms ESET and Broadcom’s Symantec discovered, the infections followed the DDoSattacks against several Ukrainian websites, including Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cabinet of Ministers, and Rada. ESETResearch discovered a new data wiper malware used in Ukraine today.
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