The healthcare sector should brace itself against an increase in cyberattack rates and a variety of attack vectors over the coming months, researchers have warned. On Tuesday, cybersecurity firm Check Point released new statisticsthat show a 45% increase in cyberattacks since November against the global healthcare sector, over double an increase of 22% against all worldwide industries in the same…
So, what exactly is a DDoS attack? DDoS attack stands for Distributed Denial of Service attack. This is when multiple systems flood a targeted system, rendering it unavailable. One analogy is to think of a DDoS attack as several people on a conference call continually yelling over the one person who is actually speaking to the group, making it impossible for…
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 01, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — DOSarrest Internet Security announced today that they have released a new version of its Cyber Attack Preparation Platform (CAPP). CAPP is a serve yourself portal allowing customers to test their DDoS protection services they have in place or to stress test their website’s software capability under load. The service has over…
The New Zealand stock exchange (NZX) website has gone down again in what appears to be the latest disruption caused by cyber attackers. The NZX website has been targeted by repeated distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks over the last week, beginning last Tuesday. Such attacks disrupt service by saturating the network with significant volumes of internet traffic, and have caused…
A team of Chinese academics has found a new way to abuse HTTP packets to amplify web traffic and bring down websites and content delivery networks (CDNs). Named RangeAmp, this new Denial-of-Service (DoS) technique exploits incorrect implementations of the HTTP “Range Requests” attribute. HTTP Range Requests are part of the HTTP standard and allow clients (usually browsers) to request only…
New vulnerability in DNS server software can be leveraged for DDoS attacks with an 1620x amplification factor. A team of academics from Israel has disclosed today details about NXNSAttack, a vulnerability in DNS servers that can be abused to launch DDoS attacks of massive proportions. According to the research team, NXNSAttack impacts recursive DNS servers and the process of DNS…
A previously unknown SQL injection vulnerability in the Sophos XG Firewall gave hackers access to customers’ local usernames and hashed passwords for several days. The Abingdon, U.K.-based platform security vendor said it learned late Wednesday of an attack against its physical and virtual XG Firewall units when a suspicious field value was discovered inside the device’s management interface. The attack…
There is no escaping it. COVID-19 is dominating headlines and has impacted virtually every corner of the world. Like most people at this point, I’m 30 days into isolation and trying everything in my power to ignore the elephant in the room and the politics that go along with it. Unfortunately, or fortunately, cyber security is an essential business. As…
Dutch law enforcement has shut down 15 DDoS-for-hire services that were used to run cyberattacks aimed at knocking websites and networks offline. Although they did not reveal the names of the DDoS-for-hire booters that they stopped, Police in The Netherlands were able to arrest a 19-year-old man from The Netherlands, who is suspected of orchestrating a DDoS attack against two websites that provide…
Australian banking and financial institutions received extortion emails threatening them of possible distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against them. To avert this situation the extortioners demanded a ransom that needs to be paid in the form of Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency. The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) is aware of this extortion campaign and issued threat advice…
