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Verizon 2023 DBIR: DDoS attacks dominate and pretexting lead to BEC growth

Tech Republic Security

In Verizon’s just-released 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report, money is king, and denial of service and social engineering still hold sway. The post Verizon 2023 DBIR: DDoS attacks dominate and pretexting lead to BEC growth appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Scarleteel Threat Targets AWS Fargate, Launches DDoS and Cryptojacking Campaigns

Tech Republic Security

The Scarleteel threat targets AWS Fargate environments for data theft and more malicious types of attacks such as cryptojacking and DDoS. Learn how to mitigate this threat.

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ThreatList: Latest DDoS Trends by the Numbers

Threatpost

Trends in DDoS attacks show a evolution beyond Mirai code and point to next-gen botnets that are better hidden and have a greater level of persistence on devices – making them "far more dangerous.".

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MY TAKE: How advanced automation of threat intel sharing has quickened incident response

The Last Watchdog

At the same time, digital transformation has redoubled the complexity of company networks, catapulting us from Big Data to Very Big Data. Consider that 90% of the data that exists in the world was created in two years — 2017 and 2018 — and that our digital universe is on track to swell from 3.2

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NEW TECH: Human operatives maintain personas, prowl the Dark Net for intel to help companies

The Last Watchdog

Our growing fixation with leveraging artificial intelligence to extract profits from Big Data – for both constructive and criminal ends—is the order of the day. It can help companies get in a much better position to defend against, or recover from, targeted exploits, such as APT probes , DDoS attacks or ransomware , he says.

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Behavioral Analytics in Cybersecurity: Does It Work as Advertised?

eSecurity Planet

Whether it’s studying the performance of your direct competitors, using predictive analytics to determine what the future may hold for your industry, or analyzing employee performance and making optimization decisions based on that information, the entire point is to take data in and use it to make better-informed decisions.

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Best Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs)

eSecurity Planet

Lumen, rebranded from CenturyLink in 2020, offers a broad range of services, including a professionally managed next-generation network-based firewall, IDPS, adaptive network security, UTM, DDoS mitigation, and threat intelligence. Metrics: Monitors more than 195 billion NetFlow sessions daily, and mitigates 120 DDoS attacks per day.

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