CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 30, 2021

Is your organization prepared to mitigate Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against mission-critical cloud-based applications? A DDoS attack is a cyber attack that uses bots to flood the targeted server or application with junk traffic, exhausting its resources and disrupting service for real human users. Source: Testbytes.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2024

The Mexican Drug Cartels Want You Casio: Notice of Partial Service Outage and Information Leak Caused by Ransomware Attack He founded a “startup” to access sanctioned Russian websites: the cyber police of Khmelnytskyi region exposed the hacker Hacked ‘AI Girlfriend’ Data Shows Prompts Describing Child Sexual Abuse Malware Over 300,000!

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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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Bleeping Computer

JUNE 1, 2022

Department of Justice announced today the seizure of three domains used by cybercriminals to sell personal info stolen in data breaches and to provide DDoS attack services. [.]. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the U.S.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2019

Security firm Imperva revealed it has suffered a data breach that affecting some customers of its Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) product. Cybersecurity firm Imperva disclosed a data breach that has exposed sensitive information for some customers of its Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) product, formerly known as Incapsula.

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The Hacker News

AUGUST 3, 2023

A hacktivist group known as Mysterious Team Bangladesh has been linked to over 750 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and 78 website defacements since June 2022.

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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. Image: SentinelOne.com.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

trillion, the risk of a data breach extends beyond immediate financial losses. Data Security Thales | Cloud Protection & Licensing Solutions More About This Author > As Black Friday and Cyber Monday loom, the stakes for retailers extend far beyond enticing deals and record sales. trillion and $5.28 trillion and $5.28

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 4, 2024

As high-profile data breaches and leaks continue making headlines, a new report from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) examines the triple-whammy of factors enabling this tidal wave of personal data theft. These escalations have made ransomware an even more potent data breach threat.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 19, 2020

TOPIC: In this episode, Daniel takes a look at the 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. Verizon’s Breach Report is one of the best infosec reports out there, and I’m always excited when I hear it’s been released. DDoS is way up, both in numbers of attacks and the weight of them. My analysis.

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Penetration Testing

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library beloved for its Wayback Machine, has been battling a relentless wave of DDoS attacks since May 2024. While these attacks, often attributed to... The post Internet Archive Under Siege: DDoS Attacks and a Mysterious Data Breach appeared first on Cybersecurity News.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2022

Russian government released a list containing IP addresses and domains behind DDoS attacks that hit Russian infrastructure after the invasion. SecurityAffairs – hacking, DDoS). The post These are the sources of DDoS attacks against Russia, local NCCC warns appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

There are two events that can change cached data, one is simple and one is major: Someone opts out of public searchability and their email address needs to be removed. A new data breach is loaded and there are changes to a large number of hash prefixes.

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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. First, a little background It’s been a little over a year since we first shared our research on the data breach perception problem.

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IT Security Guru

JANUARY 30, 2025

Data Breaches Data breaches are fairly common among cybercriminals who break into a platforms database and steal sensitive information like personal details, passwords and financial data. This gives the hacker the information to access your trading capital or, even worse, lock you out of your account.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 4, 2023

After the statement release on Telegram by the hacker’s, CheckPoint started reassessing its security practices and claims to have the strongest measures in place to protect its IT assets from significant attacks such as ransomware and data breaches.

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IT Security Guru

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Because APIs connect services and transfer all types of data, including sensitive data, APIs are vulnerable to attacks that may result in costly data breaches. APIs are Used for Communication and Data Transfer. The post Protecting your APIs from Attacks and Data Breaches appeared first on IT Security Guru.

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The Hacker News

JUNE 7, 2024

Ransomware crippled businesses, DDoS attacks disrupted critical services, and data breaches exposed millions of sensitive records. 2023 was a year of unprecedented cyberattacks. The cost of these attacks? Astronomical. The damage to reputations? Irreparable.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

First, a little background Verizon’s 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) [1] , an industry publication that analyzes cybersecurity incident and breach data from around the world, found that over 99% of all incident and breach events fall into one of only eight major categories. 2018) "Causes of Death".

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 29, 2022

What are DDOS attack tools? DDOS attacks are cyber- attacks targeted at rendering certain computers, network systems and servers non-functional. Attackers have to carry out a long series of actions that involve social engineering, data breaches and sometimes even system testing. Due to the sophistication [.].

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2022

The content delivery network and DDoS mitigation company Cloudflare revealed this week that at least 76 employees and their family members received text messages on their personal and work phones. The post Hackers behind Twilio data breach also targeted Cloudflare employees appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2022

Curiously, the LockBit ransomware’s Tor leak sites were unreacheable due to a DDoS attack. The attack was launched by a threat actor ordering Lockbit gang to remove Entrust’s stolen data. The post Lockbit leak sites hit by mysterious DDoS attack after Entrust hack appeared first on Security Affairs.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Engaging 1,629 cybersecurity experts across the United States, the United Kingdom, and EMEA, this exhaustive study presents a unique perspective into the dark reality of API-related data breaches and their impact on organizations. Download the full report for in-depth insights and recommendations.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In fact, according to the 2024 Thales Data Threat Report , more than 80% of organizations reported at least one breach in the last year, while ransomware attacks grew more frequent, with 28% of organizations reported experiencing an attack in 2024, compared to 22% in 2023.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2022

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.” Liberator is advertised as a DDoS tool to launch attacks against “Russian propaganda websites.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2025

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

I wrote about the company in 2015 after it suffered a debilitating distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack after Romero declined to pay a ransom demand from an online extortion group. Another series of DDoS attacks in 2017 forced VFEmail to find a new hosting provider.

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Hot for Security

MAY 6, 2021

A yet-unknown threat actor launched a DDoS attack against the internet network used by the public administration and other official institutions in Belgium, briefly bringing the system down. Large-scale DDoS attacks are not uncommon, but systems are usually in place to deal with them so services are not affected.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

” Anyone can type in an email address into the site to check if their personal data has been compromised in a security breach. Inevitably, "because data breaches", and it's nuts just how much exposure this project has had because of them. 🤣", the internet quipped.

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Security Affairs

JULY 3, 2023

Microsoft denied the data breach after the collective of hacktivists known as Anonymous Sudan claimed to have hacked the company. A collective known as Anonymous Sudan (aka Storm-1359) claimed responsibility for the DDoS attacks that hit the company’s services. reads the report published by the company.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 19, 2020

In January 2019, dozens of media outlets raised the alarm about a new “megabreach” involving the release of some 773 million stolen usernames and passwords that was breathlessly labeled “the largest collection of stolen data in history.” “ Sanixer “) from the Ivano-Frankivsk region of the country.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Leaked email: Companies or third-party vendors put email address security at risk when they experience data breaches. Take the WhatsApp data breach of 2019, where hackers got the personal data of 1.5 It’s a type of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that uses a script to automatically send messages.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

Availability & Reliability Cloud storage service outages affect business operations and hinder access to crucial data. Downtime limits incident response, increases the risk of data breaches, and can be used as leverage for DDoS attacks. Make the default data storage settings private. million records exposed.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 25, 2021

Next in the line will be the online casino industry that lacks adequate measures to mitigate sophisticated cyber risks like DDoS attacks. And the only way to protect is to become better equipped to handle attacks filled with sophistication with related hardware and software.

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Dark Reading

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Almost a third of respondents in Fastly's Fight Fire with Fire survey view data breaches and data loss as the biggest cybersecurity threat.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Here’s what happened: The school did not have proper website security in place and consequently was the target of a data breach that shut down its website. In 2015, the education sector was among the top three sectors breached , behind healthcare and retail. Protect Your Campus from DDoS Attacks.

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