Malwarebytes

JANUARY 9, 2023

Digging further into the skimmer's infrastructure on Russian-based hosting provider DDoS-Guard, we came across a digital crime haven for cryptocurrency scams, Bitcoin mixers, malware distribution sites and much more. In the next section, we will show exactly what happens during this process of data collection and exfiltration.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Experts from Honeywell analyzed data collected with the Secure Media Exchange (SMX) , a product it has launched in 2017 and that was designed to protect industrial facilities from USB-borne threats. Of the malware discovered, 9% was designed to directly exploit flaws in the USB protocol or interface. ” continues the report.

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SC Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

Speed is the natural enemy of security, and retailers must beware of increased risks of DDoS attacks, ransomware, fraudulent purchases, [and] phishing campaigns impersonating retailers.”. “As a result, these systems often haven’t been properly tested in high-volume transaction environments before.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In 2019, researchers from Southern Methodist University conducted a study using behavioral analytics algorithms on network traffic to detect DDoS attacks. While most algorithms performed well against the HULK DDoS tool, none of them were able to accurately identify bot-generated DDoS attacks.

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2019

Even if in Italy the cells of the popular Anonymous collective are very active , the overall number of hacktivist attacks that caused in quantifiable damage to the victim has declined by 95 percent since 2015. Researchers analyzed data collected by IBM’s X-Force threat intelligence unit between 2015 and 2019.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Website security is any action or application taken to ensure website data is not exposed to cybercriminals or to prevent exploitation of websites in any way. Website security protects your website from: DDoS attacks. These attacks can slow or crash your site entirely, making it inaccessible to visitors. An SSL certificate.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

Kentik’s solutions can protect core, edge, and cloud networks while adding DDoS and botnet protection, supply chain analytics, and synthetics. Reviews highlight the quality of technical support and vendor responsiveness, seamless onboarding, and meaningful data visualizations. Kentik Features. SolarWinds.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 4, 2024

Some newer ransomware variants now exfiltrate sensitive data prior to encryption to further incentivize ransom payment through additional extortion leverage. Other aggressive tactics noted include targeting cloud backup data, deploying distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and implementing multi-layered extortion demands.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Cyber attackers are forever becoming more sophisticated, however, so companies have had to constantly incorporate new security solutions such as IDPS , UEBA , threat intelligence , patch management , encryption , DLP , DDoS protection , vulnerability management , and even mobile security management. Best XDR Solutions.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 6, 2022

Ransomware has already been combined with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks , and Manky notes that ransomware could see the addition of wiper malware, “which could not only wreck data but destroy systems and hardware. “A near-future event could cause a massive depopulation of internet-connected devices.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

Examples of threatening traffic that IDPS solutions can combat include network intrusions, DDoS attacks, malware, and socially engineered attacks. DDoS protection services are offered by third-party vendors to combat these types of attacks.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

TS: Yes, you can put something into everything, but all of a sudden you have this massive big data collection problem on the back end where you as the attacker have created a different kind of analysis problem. Of course, some nations have more capability than others to sift through huge amounts of data they’re collecting.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Collections repository. ThreatConnect’s platform enables automated data collection from all sources and presents it to users in context. Tailored breakdowns allow monitoring for DDoS attacks and social media-based threats against an organization, too. Threat Indicator Confidence scoring tool. ThreatConnect.

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SecureList

JULY 27, 2023

Killnet, led by a person nicknamed “KillMilk”, is one of the leaders of the hacktivist movement that uses DDoS as a means of disruption. We now have better visibility into the group’s tactics, particularly in the areas of lateral movement, data collection and exfiltration.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 18, 2022

These typically include phishing, malware attacks/compromised devices, ransomware, DDoS, unauthorized account creation, and network security rule changes. We fully expect most organizations to adopt a more flexible data collection and aggregation approach and introduce more sophisticated analytics in this timeframe.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

Wazawaka spent his early days on Exploit and other forums selling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that could knock websites offline for about USD $80 a day. Wazawaka has been a highly active member of multiple cybercrime forums over the past decade, but his favorite is the Russian-language community Exploit.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

You know, I did a job once where we had a customer and involved compromises at different servers right in and, you know, we literally had a whole team just to do data collection. And it took us a month to collect that data, like a month like meanwhile, there's an ABD group running around the network causing havoc.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Solutions like XDR, SIEM, and MDM platforms, apart from traditional anti-virus products, enable centralized data collection, accelerate analysis, and correlate security events from various sources, facilitating swift response to complex incidents. It is hard to imagine any future conflict without hacktivist involvement.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Vamosi: So ransomware started with like individuals being compromised and their data collected and $300 in Bitcoin and then it became commercialized to industries and so first ransomware. Baccio: So I think it's the ransomware landscape to me, it's just fascinating. It's from a technical level.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2025

Stark’s network has been a favorite of the Russian hacktivist group called NoName057(16) , which frequently launches huge distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a variety of targets seen as opposed to Moscow. -based cloud providers. “To the extent the U.S.

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