Browsing the "cyber security" Tag

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DDoS

Cloudflare fixes outage that knocked major Web services offline

Online services such as Nord VPN, Shopify, and Steam were all inaccessible by users in most regions

21 Jun

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DDoS

Cloudflare mitigates biggest ever HTTPS DDoS attack

A botnet generated over 212 million HTTPS requests from over 1,500 networks in 121 countries

16 Jun

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Deep Fake

Deep fake attacks expected to be next major threat to businesses

Cisco’s cyber security experts agreed that social norms may also become “super weird” as a result

16 Jun

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Palermo

Palermo ransomware attack: Vice Society claims responsibility as city details recovery strategy

The Italian municipality is attempting to defy attackers by restoring its systems from backups

13 Jun

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Cyber attack

Cyber criminals are spending longer inside business’ networks after the initial breach

Cyber attackers' dwell time is up 36% thanks to initial access brokers and repeat exploitation of Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities, according to...

8 Jun

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Cyber attack

Siren, Q6 Cyber launch critical infrastructure defence solution

Jointly developed by the investigative intelligence analytics provider and cyber threat intelligence provider

7 Jun

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Microsoft office

Chinese hackers exploit Microsoft zero-day as list of vulnerable Office products grows

Microsoft has published a support guide and temporary workarounds for IT admins to mitigate the threat

3 Jun

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Apple App Store

The EU’s Apple App Store crackdown ‘will fuel cyber attacks’

Organisations should be encouraged to embrace the ‘security by Playstation’ approach as much as possible, expert says

2 Jun

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Ransomware

Second ransomware group attacks Costa Rica

The country’s health service has had its systems affected by the new attack

1 Jun

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Jason Ward, Dell

Survey finds hybrid working model causing new cyber security concerns

The vast majority of businesses say cyber resilience is a priority at senior leadership level within their organisation

31 May

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Google Chrome branded the least effective browser for stopping phishing attacks

The world's most popular browser came dead last when compared against competitors

26 May

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Open source packages with millions of installs hacked to harvest AWS credentials

Two popular open source packages used by Python and PHP developers compromised

24 May

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Ransomware Hacker

Ransomware group Conti threatens to overthrow Costa Rican government

It has urged citizens to go out onto the streets to demand their government pays the ransomware demand

18 May

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Laptop Hack

IT admin deletes company’s databases and is jailed for seven years

Forensic experts correlated Wi-Fi connectivity logs and timestamps with internal CCTV footage to confirm their suspicions

17 May

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Botnet

Microsoft warns of new botnet variant targeting Windows and Linux systems

The Sysrv botnet is back and equipped with more exploits though the primary goal of installing cryptominers remains the same

16 May

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Russia cyber attack

Russian hackers declare war on 10 countries after failed Eurovision DDoS attack

Italian police thwart cyber attacks on Eurovision's voting systems from the Russian-linked hacker group Killnet after the same group targeted public...

16 May

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Russia Hack

Lone Russian RAT operator rivals large gangs with “passion project”

Researchers say the lone actor's success speaks to the growing complexity of the underground malware market

13 May

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Russian Hacker

Five Eyes and US governments finally confirm Russia was behind Ukrainian government, Viasat cyber attacks

NCSC detailed the government-level attribution process at CYBERUK 2022 and why it took so much longer to assign blame compared to the private sector

11 May

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Rodrigo Chaves Robles

Costa Rica declares state of emergency following Conti ransomware attack

The US has released a $10m bug bounty for information on the attackers

10 May

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Apple, Google, Microsoft expand their support for password-less sign-ins

New approach promises to offer “simpler, stronger authentication” across leading platforms to help protect users from malicious activity

6 May