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Porn Sites Suffer Highest Number of DDoS Attacks

February 10, 2020 - admin - 0 Comment

A new study focused on distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks has found that pornographic websites received by far the most attacks per site last year. To produce their “Global DDoS Threat Landscape” report, researchers at Imperva studied attack data gathered between May and December 2019. Their findings, published yesterday, reveal that websites in the adult entertainment industry received an average of 84.46 attacks…

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Hackers bank big bucks at live hacking event in France

January 31, 2020 - admin - 0 Comment

Hackers descended on the French city of Lille this week to participate in a live bug bounty event, hosted by European platform YesWeHack. Four organizations participated in the event, which took place on Wednesday and Thursday (January 28-29), as part of the 2020 Forum International de la Cybersécurité (FIC), an annual conference and trade show. Companies taking part in the…

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Network traffic analysis for IR: Analyzing DDoS attacks

January 30, 2020 - admin - 0 Comment

Introduction Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are one of the powerful cyber weapons threat actors use today. We often hear about a website being “brought down by attackers,” and in most cases, a DDoS attack is the main cause behind this failure. A DDoS attack works by using multiple exploited machines as a source to attack network traffic. Each of these…

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Greece: Government websites hit by cyberattack

January 24, 2020 - admin - 0 Comment

The Greek government said Friday that the official state websites of the prime minister, the national police and fire service and several important ministries were briefly disabled by a cyberattack but have been restored. Government spokesman Stelios Petsas said early Friday that the distributed denial-of-service or DDoS attack “led to the malfunction of certain websites.” He said “countermeasures” had been…

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US Cybersecurity Firm Founder Admits Funding DDoS Attacks

January 23, 2020 - admin - 0 Comment

An American businessman who co-founded a cybersecurity company has admitted to hiring criminals to carry out cyber-attacks against others. Tucker Preston, of Macon, Georgia, confessed to having paid threat actors to launch a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks between December 2015 and February 2016. DDoS attacks prevent a website from functioning by bombarding it with so much junk internet traffic that…

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DDoS: Man who sold website defences pleads guilty to attacks

January 21, 2020 - admin - 0 Comment

A man in the US who co-founded a service to protect sites from cyber-attackers has pleaded guilty to launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Tucker Preston is co-founder of BackConnect, a cyber-security firm that claimed to be “the new industry standard in DDoS mitigation”. However, he was accused of arranging DDoS attacks targeting an unnamed firm. A court document…

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Business disruption is now a bigger cyber-threat than theft

January 17, 2020 - admin - 0 Comment

Hackers target businesses with malware, for the sake of disrupting their operations, experts claim. A third of all reported incidents against businesses were caused by ransomware, destructive malware and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, according to cloud-delivered endpoint protection firm CrowdStrike. The company’s latest cybersecurity report, argues that cybercriminals are increasingly seeing business disruption as their main attack objective….

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Cyberspace Is the Next Front in Iran-US Conflict – and Private Companies May Bear the Brunt

January 13, 2020 - admin - 0 Comment

Less overt than conventional military actions, cyberattacks can have dangerous consequences – especially when they target critical infrastructure systems controlled by the private sector. Iran and other nations have waged a stealth cyberwar against the United States for at least the past decade, largely targeting not the government itself but, rather, critical infrastructure companies. This threat to the private sector…

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Disk-wiping malware, phishing and espionage: How Iran’s cyber attack capabilities stack up

January 7, 2020 - admin - 0 Comment

US warns that cyberattacks could be part of Iran’s plans as tensions rise. This is what Iran’s current offensive cyber capabilities look like. Tensions between the United States and Iran are raised after the killing of Iranian IRGC-Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani via a US drone strike while he was in Iraq. Iranian leaders have vowed to retaliate against the…

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A Third of Infosec Pros Believe They’re under Cyber-Attack but Don’t Know Yet

January 6, 2020 - admin - 0 Comment

If security incidents in the past few years are any indication, cybersecurity professionals face a bumpy road ahead. While some IT security chiefs are prepared to hang up their boots, many are almost certain their organization is under attack from hackers but they haven’t yet learned of it. A Bitdefender survey of more than 6,000 infosec professionals in large organizations…

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