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Link11 Discovers Record Number of DDoS Attacks in First Half of 2021

July 15, 2021 - admin - 0 Comment

In H1 2021, cyber criminals targeted businesses in record numbers as they continued to exploit vulnerabilities caused by the pandemic A report published by Link11, Europe’s leading IT security provider in cyber resilience, suggests there has been a 33% increase in the number of DDoS attacks in H1 2021. Between January and June, the Link11 Security Operations Centre (LSOC) recorded…

A New Wave of DDoS Extortion Campaigns by Fancy Lazarus

June 16, 2021 - admin - 0 Comment

Warning of acute ransom DDoS attacks against companies across Europe and North America on behalf of Fancy Lazarus The Link11 Security Operations Center (LSOC) has recently observed a sharp increase in ransom distributed denial of service (RDDoS or RDoS) attacks. Enterprises from a wide range of business sectors are receiving extortion e-mails from the sender Fancy Lazarus demanding 2 Bitcoins…

‘Fancy Lazarus’ Cyberattackers Ramp up Ransom DDoS Efforts

June 12, 2021 - admin - 0 Comment

The group, known for masquerading as various APT groups, is back with a spate of attacks on U.S. companies. A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) extortion group has blazed back on the cybercrime scene, this time under the name of “Fancy Lazarus.” It’s been launching a series of new attacks that may or may not have any teeth, researchers said. The new…

Critical Infrastructure Under Attack

May 11, 2021 - admin - 0 Comment

Several recent cyber incidents targeting critical infrastructure prove that no open society is immune to attacks by cybercriminals. The recent shutdown of key US energy pipeline marks just the tip of the iceberg. Critical infrastructure is becoming more dependent on networks of interconnected devices. For example, only a few decades ago, power grids were essentially operational silos. Today, most grids…

OpenSSL fixes severe DoS, certificate validation vulnerabilities

March 29, 2021 - admin - 0 Comment

Today, the OpenSSL project has issued an advisory for two high-severity vulnerabilities CVE-2021-3449 and CVE-2021-3450 lurking in OpenSSL products. OpenSSL is a commonly used software library for building networking applications and servers that need to establish secure communications. These flaws include: CVE-2021-3449: A Denial of Service (DoS) flaw due to NULL pointer dereferencing which only impacts OpenSSL server instances, not the clients. CVE-2021-3450: An improper Certificate Authority…

Acer Reportedly Hit With $50M Ransomware Attack

March 24, 2021 - admin - 0 Comment

Reports say a ransomware gang has given Acer until March 28 to pay, or it will double the ransom amount. The REvil/Sodinokibi ransomware group has reportedly targeted computer manufacturer Acer with a $50 million ransomware attack — and its ransom demand may grow, investigators say. News of the double-extortion ransomware campaign surfaced late last week, when attackers claimed on their data…

REvil ransomware gang claims over $100 million profit in a year

March 10, 2021 - admin - 0 Comment

REvil ransomware developers say that they made more than $100 million in one year by extorting large businesses across the world from various sectors. They are driven by profit and want to make $2 billion from their ransomware service, adopting the most lucrative trends in their pursuit of wealth. Affiliates do the heavy lifting A REvil representative that uses the…

FBI WARNS OF DENIAL-OF-SERVICE ATTACKS AGAINST EMERGENCY CALL CENTERS

February 24, 2021 - admin - 0 Comment

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released a security notice that specifically warns emergency call centers against a new threat. FBI investigators have noticed that there is a high probability that telephony denial of service (TDoS) attacks are going to flood these centers with the intention of taking them offline. A TDoS attack is quite simple in its execution. Much…

DDoS attacks intensify — Driven in part by COVID-19 and 5G

February 11, 2021 - admin - 0 Comment

Cybercriminals had a busy year in 2020, with rapidly increasing numbers of distributed denial of service (DDoS) weapons, widespread botnet activity, and some of the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded. As COVID-19 drove an urgent shift online for everything from education and healthcare, to consumer shopping, to office work, hackers had more targets available than ever—many of them under protected…

Bad actors launched an unprecedented wave of DDoS attacks in 2020

January 26, 2021 - admin - 0 Comment

For many enterprises, 2020 was a tough year for cyberattacks, with dozens suffering from devastating DDoS attacks due to the newfound reliance on digital tools, according to a new report from cybersecurity firm Akamai. In its report, “Retrospective 2020: DDoS was Back — Bigger and Badder than Ever Before,” the company found that it had more customers attacked in November…

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