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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…

As coronavirus cases surge, so do cyberattacks against the healthcare sector

January 11, 2021 - admin - 0 Comment

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…

DDoS Attacks Remain a Serious Threat to Businesses Worldwide

December 17, 2020 - admin - 0 Comment

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…

Teen who shook the Internet in 2016 pleads guilty to DDoS attacks

December 10, 2020 - admin - 0 Comment

One of the operators behind a Mirai botnet pleaded guilty to their involvement in a huge DDoS attack that caused a massive Internet disruption during October 2016. Multiple high-profile websites and online services including Amazon, PayPal, Visa, Netflix, the PlayStation Network, and Airbnb were taken down as a direct result of this DDoS attack. The botnet, a variant of the…

DOSarrest Unleashes new version of its Simulated DDoS Attack platform

December 1, 2020 - admin - 0 Comment

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…

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