SecureList

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Q3 2021 brought two new DDoS attack vectors, potentially posing a serious threat, including for major web resources. ris , a new botnet capable of carrying out powerful DDoS attacks. For instance, a DDoS attack on a Cloudflare customer (attributed to M?ris) We won't let our #DDoS stop us doing what we love!

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks cause problems for organizations of all sizes. To fight DDoS attacks, organizations and teams need to implement the three standard phases for any IT threat: preparation, reaction, and recovery. To skip ahead, click on the links: What is a DDoS Attack? Types of DDoS Attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2022

Microsoft in November fended off a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in its Azure cloud that officials said was the largest ever recorded, the latest in a wave of record attacks that washed over the IT industry in the second half of 2021. Also read: How to Stop DDoS Attacks: 6 Tips for Fighting DDoS Attacks.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Akamai announced it has mitigated the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on a U.S. Cybersecurity firm Akamai successfully identified and prevented a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeting an unnamed, leading American financial institution. financial company. gigabits per second.

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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. Some of them were particularly sophisticated.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence builds a monthly picture of ransomware activity by monitoring the information published by ransomware gangs on their Dark Web leak sites. As expected, LockBit remained the dominant ransomware variant in August, as it has all year. Known ransomware attacks by gang, August 2022.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 6, 2022

About the only consensus on cybersecurity in 2022 is that things will get uglier, but in what ways? Third-party security, ransomware , artificial intelligence (AI) and decentralized finance (DeFi) are some of the threats you can expect to see more of this year – with the potential for far worse results than we’ve seen in the past.

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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% in Q1 2022 to 6.4%

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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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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Finally, we will make some forecasts about financial attacks in 2022. The Conti Gang was another group that also had issues with their associates when an apparently vengeful affiliate leaked the ransomware group’s playbook after claiming the notorious cybercriminal organization underpaid him for doing its dirty work.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2023

The report covers incidents in aviation, maritime, railway, and road transport industries between January 2021 and October 2022. During the reporting period, ransomware was the most prominent threat against the sector in 2022. The researchers pointed out that the ransomware attacks doubled compared to the previous year.

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Anton on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

There are people buying their first SIEM in 2022. There are people adopting virtualization in 2022. There are people moving to “next-gen” firewalls (a great innovation of 2005) in 2022. An anti-DDoS vendor promised “better zero trust visibility.” But why not just accept that in 2022, SIEM = SIEM + SOAR + UEBA ?

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 2, 2022

Ransomware attacks increased by yet another 80% between February 2021 and March 2022, based on an analysis of ransomware payloads seen across the Zscaler cloud. Supply chain attacks, ransomware-as-a-service ecosystems, and multi-extortion tactics have all increased the volume and success rates of attacks. PYSA/Mespinoza.

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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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2022

LockBit ransomware gang claims to have hacked the IT giant Entrust and started leaking the stolen files. The Lockbit ransomware gang claimed to have hacked the company and is threatening to leak the stolen files. Curiously, the LockBit ransomware’s Tor leak sites were unreacheable due to a DDoS attack. Entrust Corp.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Originally developed to detect and remove malware or computer viruses, modern antivirus software can now protect against ransomware, browser attacks, keyloggers, malicious websites, and even sometimes phishing attempts. Also Read: 4 Best Antivirus Software of 2022. Also Read: Best Enterprise VPN Solutions for 2022. Back to top.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

At the end of January, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center warned that the KillNet group is actively targeting the US healthcare sector with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says it helped dozens of hospitals respond to these DDoS incidents.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence builds a monthly picture of ransomware activity by monitoring the information published by ransomware gangs on their Dark Web leak sites. LockBit was the most prevalent ransomware in September, as it has been for all of 2022. Known ransomware attacks by gang, September 2022.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2023

Polish police, as part of the international law enforcement operation PowerOFF, dismantled a DDoS-for-hire service that has been active since at least 2013. An international operation codenamed PowerOff led to the shutdown of a DDoS-for-hire service that has been active since at least 2013. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The Alphv ransomware group added the Morrison Community Hospital to its dark web leak site. The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group claims to have hacked the Morrison Community Hospital and added it to its dark web Tor leak site. Stats for 2022 in the link. Stats for 2022 in the link. million).

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

To accelerate the ransomware encryption process and make it harder to detect, cybercriminal groups have begun using a new technique: intermittent encryption. Intermittent encryption allows the ransomware encryption malware to encrypt files partially or only encrypt parts of the files. Some are written on Go and can be customized.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Cuba ransomware gang Cuba data leak site The group’s offensives first got on our radar in late 2020. The Cuba group, like many others of its kind, is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) outfit, letting its partners use the ransomware and associated infrastructure in exchange for a share of any ransom they collect.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

IT threat evolution in Q1 2022. IT threat evolution in Q1 2022. IT threat evolution in Q1 2022. Subsequently, DDoS attacks hit some government websites. The unsophisticated style and poor implementation suggest that attackers probably used this new ransomware as a smokescreen for the HermeticWiper attack.

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Webroot

JANUARY 7, 2022

In particular, we witnessed an increase in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and a surge in the usage of the internet of things (IoT). Ransomware. Earlier in 2021, we detailed the hidden costs of ransomware in our eBook. Since mid-October 2021, there have been more than 25 active strains of ransomware circulating.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The Europen Agency for cybersecurity ENISA releases its ENISA Threat Landscape 2022 (ETL) report , which is the annual analysis of the state of the cybersecurity threat landscape. This is the 10 th edition of the annual report and analyzes events that took place between July 2021 and July 2022. ENISA Threat Landscape Report 2022.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2022

Ransomware supply chain triple-threat. Ransomware will continue to cause problems in supply chains and leverage so-called triple threat attacks. BlackCat didn’t only demand a ransom under threat of data leaks; it also promised to fire up a DDoS (distributed denial of service) if the ransom wasn’t paid.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 14, 2022

In other words, 2022 has been an eventful year in the threat landscape, with malware continuing to take center stage. The 6 Nastiest Malware of 2022. 2022 was no different. 2022 was no different. With that, here are the 6 Nastiest Malware of 2022. Here are this year’s wicked winners.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In a statement issued Monday morning, Lehigh Valley Health Network said it had been the target of a cyberattack attributed to a ransomware gang known as BlackCat. BlackCat The ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group BlackCat, also known as ALPHV and Noberus, is currently one of the most active groups, and has been associated with Russia.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

This is our latest installment, focusing on activities that we observed during Q1 2022. Subsequently, DDoS attacks hit several government websites. The following day, Avast Threat Research announced the discovery of new Golang ransomware in Ukraine , which they dubbed HermeticRansom. We named this malware Elections GoRansom.

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Bleeping Computer

AUGUST 26, 2022

We saw a bit of ransomware drama this week, mostly centered around LockBit, who saw their data leak sites taken down by a DDoS attack after they started leaking the allegedly stolen Entrust data. [.].

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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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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 22, 2022

Ransomware Drives Up Costs, Lowers Coverage. Not surprisingly, ransomware insurance has become popular and is included in many policies. This is driven by the proliferation of cyber claims across the entire market, particularly ransomware related. billion in direct written premiums. AI, ML Playing a Role.

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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 Affairs

APRIL 19, 2022

Kaspersky discovered a flaw in the encryption process of the Yanluowang ransomware that allows victims to recover their files for free. Researchers from Kaspersky discovered a vulnerability in the encryption process of the Yanluowang ransomware that can be exploited to recover the files encrypted by the malware without paying the ransom.

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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 2022 report, System Intrusion took the lead, accounting for 40% of all breach events. You may be asking “Why data from 2021 when it’s 2022?”

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2022

Researchers at cybersecurity firm Cyble analyzed a Tor website named named ‘Eternity Project’ that offers for sale a broad range of malware, including stealers, miners, ransomware, and DDoS Bots. The post Eternity Project: You can pay $260 for a stealer and $490 for a ransomware appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 10, 2022

There are people buying their first SIEM in 2022. There are people adopting virtualization in 2022. There are people moving to “next-gen” firewalls (a great innovation of 2005) in 2022. An anti-DDoS vendor promised “better zero trust visibility.” But why not just accept that in 2022, SIEM = SIEM + SOAR + UEBA ?

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