CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 21, 2022

A downtime caused on the network of Cloudflare was claimed to be a cyber attack by some online news resources. But the cloud service giant responded by giving a press statement that the disruption caused on Monday this week was because of a network change and not by digital attack.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

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.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 12, 2023

StormWall , a premier cybersecurity firm specializing in the defense of websites, networks, and online services from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, has published an in-depth report on the DDoS landscape during the first quarter of 2023. of DDoS attacks targeting the application layer (L7), 11.7%

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 11, 2022

On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin approved troops to begin moving into Ukraine-controlled territory. The post IronNet’s March Threat Intelligence Brief 2022 appeared first on Security Boulevard. IronNet is continuously monitoring the Russian-Ukraine conflict and tracking the updates here. .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 15, 2022

As Moscow has been banned from participating in the contest because of its invasion on the Zelenskyy led nation from February 2022, Killnet was assigned digitally by bringing down the whole of the contest. Good news is that the command center neutralized all such attacks, as they were already prepared to counter such attacks proactively.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2022

At this point, it has become cliché to say that nothing in 2022 turned out the way we expected. Similarly, at the beginning of February 2022, we noticed a huge spike in the amount of activity related to Gamaredon C&C servers.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Selectel, Netwarm UK, Beget, Timeweb and DDoS-Guard). The Russian government’s embrace of cryptocurrency was a remarkable pivot: Bloomberg notes that as recently as January 2022, just weeks before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the central bank proposed a blanket ban on the use and creation of cryptocurrencies.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 24, 2022

On February 25, 2022, two days after Russia began its military invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. based organizations, stating: "Every organization—large and small—must be prepared to respond to disruptive cyber activity." targets, CISA also warned of an increase in cyber attack activity against U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The largest and oldest bank in Russia Sberbank faced the record-breaking DDoS attack that reached 1 million RPS. Sberbank , the Russian banking and financial services giant, announced that it was recently hit by a record-breaking distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that reached 1 million RPS.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2022

A series of DDoS attacks launched by Russian hacktivists are targeting several Romanian government websites. The Romanian national cyber security and incident response team, DNSC, warns of a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeting government websites. To nominate, please visit:?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 3, 2023

Reports indicate that a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) was launched on the IT infrastructure of the Swedish parliament, disrupting its website services to a significant extent. Killnet is a group assigned the duty to cyber attack all adversaries of Moscow.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Pro-Russia hacker group Killnet launched a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on NATO servers, including the NATO Special Operations Headquarters (NSHQ) website. The attack was confirmed by NATO, while the hacker group announced the attack on its Telegram Channel with the following message.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2022

Estonia announced to have blocked a wave of cyber attacks conducted by Russian hackers against local institutions. Undersecretary for Digital Transformation Luukas Ilves announced that Estonia was hit by the most extensive wave of DDoS attacks it has faced since 2007. The attackers also hit a logistics firm.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Anonymous and numerous hacker groups linked to the popular collective continue to launch cyber attacks against Russian and Belarussian government organizations and private businesses. However, a cyber attack announced today by the Anonymous-linked group Network Battalion 65 could have serious consequences.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 11, 2022

After almost 6 months of war with Ukraine, Russia seems to have hit it digitally and so is reportedly launching wiper cyber attacks that could clean off data on the targeted computers on a permanent note. From March this year, Moscow indulged in disinformation spread, DDoS attacks on Ukraine and other hacktivists related campaigns.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 11, 2022

The European Union and the United States have officially attributed a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack to Russian threat actors, which targeted the KA-SAT satellite network operated by Viasat in Ukraine earlier this year.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2022

USA) has identified an increase in activity within hacktivist groups, they’re leveraging current geopolitical tensions between the Ukraine and Russia to perform cyber-attacks. The group performed cyber-attacks against 5 logistic terminals in Italy (Sech, Trieste, TDT, Yilprort, VTP) and several major financial institutions too.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 29, 2022

Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the war on the battlefield has been accompanied by cyber attacks. Those attacks against critical infrastructure have knocked out banking and defense platforms, mostly by targeting several communication systems. NetBlocks is a global Internet monitor based in London.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2022

The Lithuanian Ministry of Defense announced that Lithuanian state institutions and companies are under a massive DDoS attack. The authorities believe that the attacks will continue in the coming days, and will be aimed at organizations in the transport, energy and financial sectors.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2022

payment cards for free Harvard Business Publishing licensee hit by ransomware Everest gang demands $200K for data stolen from South Africa state-owned electricity company ESKOM CommonSpirit hospital chains hit by ransomware, patients are facing problems Lloyd’s of London investigates alleged cyber attack. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 1, 2022

The post This was H1 2022 – Part 1 – The Fight Against Cybercrime appeared first on Radware Blog. The post This was H1 2022 – Part 1 – The Fight Against Cybercrime appeared first on Security Boulevard. Hybrid architectures had grown too complex to be able to provide adequate defense, resulting in new larger threat surfaces.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2022

Taiwan government websites were temporarily forced offline by cyber attacks during the visit to Taipei of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Major Taiwan government websites were temporarily forced offline by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks attacks during the visit to Taipei of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

This follows the DDoS attacks against several Ukrainian websites earlier today 1/n — ESET research (@ESETresearch) February 23, 2022. New #wiper malware being used in attacks on #Ukraine 1bc44eef75779e3ca1eefb8ff5a64807dbc942b1e4a2672d77b9f6928d292591 — Threat Intelligence (@threatintel) February 23, 2022.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2023

The French Senate’s website was taken offline by a DDoS attack launched by the pro-Russian hacker group NoName. The pro-Russia hacker group NoName is claiming responsibility for a DDoS attack that took the website of the French Senate offline. Nous vous prions de bien vouloir nous excuser pour la gêne occasionnée.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

These attacks have proliferated to such a degree that there were 493 million ransomware attacks in 2022 alone, and 19% of all data breaches were the result of stolen or compromised login credentials. With AI amplifying social engineering threats, businesses' attack surfaces grow increasingly larger.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 24, 2023

The tech giant claims that the activity has occurred for over three months, i.e. between November 2022 and February 2023. Most were distributed denial of service attacks aka DDoS and a mixture of other attack patterns.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The 2022 update to our research on the perception of data breach causes that’s helped organizations re-evaluate how they are at risk for a data breach instead of what feels right. In their 2021 report, Social Engineering and Basic Web Application Attacks accounted for over 50% of all breach events. Keep reading to find out more!

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

. “To help organizations better protect themselves, SecurityScorecard has published a list of proxy IPs to help block the Killnet DDoS bot.” The group launched a series of DDoS attacks against the websites of German airports, administration bodies, and banks.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2022

And as cyber attackers become ever more sophisticated, so too have the technologies and tools that companies must buy to address rising threats, such as IDPS , UEBA , threat intelligence , patch management , encryption , DLP , DDoS protection , vulnerability management , and even mobile security management.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

26 key cyber security stats for 2024 that every user should know, from rising cyber crime rates to the impact of AI technolog y. Cyber Crime Surge: During COVID-19 , cyber crimes shot up by 600%, showing how threats adapt to global changes. Phishing Attacks: Phishing is the top cyber attack, causing 90% of data breaches.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The Polish government plans to introduce new legislation aimed at strengthening the country’s resilience to cyber attacks. In August 2023, Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) and national police launched an investigation into a hacking attack on the state’s railway network.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2022

The Anonymous collective and the volunteer group Ukraine IT Army continues to launch cyber attacks on Russian entities. Ukraine IT Army launched massive DDoS attacks on the EGAIS portal that has a crucial role in Russia’s alcohol distribution. Feb 27- Mar 05 Ukraine – Russia the silent cyber conflict.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The popular collective Anonymous declared war on Russia for the illegitimate invasion of Ukraine and announced a series of cyber attacks calling to action its members. “The Anonymous collective is officially in” cyber war “against the Russian government.” We are a legion. Wait for us.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2022

. “In this regard, we recall the EU and its Member States’ strong condemnation of the cyber-attacks against Ukraine on 14 January 2022, and the attribution on 10 May 2022 of the malicious cyber activity targeting the satellite KA-SAT network to the Russian Federation.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2022

Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Anonymous has declared war on Russia and launched multiple cyber-attacks against Russian entities, including Russian government sites , state-run media websites , and energy firms. JUST IN: #Anonymous is targeting companies that continue to operate in Russia.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2022

The Anonymous collective and the volunteer group Ukraine IT Army continues to launch cyber attacks on Russian entities. The Anonymous collective continues its cyber war on Russian businesses and government organizations. pic.twitter.com/G41KkmUm96 — NB65 (@xxNB65) April 25, 2022. Let's find out.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Stats for 2022 in the link. The gang explained that one of its partners attacked SickKids violating its rules, for this reason, it blocked the affiliate. The systems at three hospitals and other medical facilities operated by Singing River Health System were hit by a cyber attack at the end of August.

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