FBI believes device vendors won’t disable these protocols and warns companies to take preventive and protective measures. he Federal Bureau of Investigation sent an alert last week warning about the discovery of new network protocols that have been abused to launch large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The alert Read more…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is warning that threat actors are actively exploiting a remote code execution vulnerability in F5’s BIG-IP network products that can allow attackers to exfiltrate data, access networks, carry out commands, create or delete files and disable services. ee Also: Gartner 2019 Magic Quadrant for Integrated Risk Read more…
A number of articles have been published recently predicting that the largest cyberattack in history is destined to happen soon, one of the main underlying factors behind this assertion is the overnight explosion of the enterprise attack surface and large increase in noted hacks that we’ve witnessed during the COVID-19 Read more…
Campaign Targets Un-patched Software and Weak Authentication, Defenders Warn A crime gang seeking “ransomware attack opportunities” is targeting organizations that use unpatched or poorly secured Citrix remote-access technology, then stealing data, unleashing crypto-locking malware and using the threat of exfiltrated data being publicly dumped to try to force payment, New Read more…
The discussion around state-sponsored cyber attacks on Australia has once again launched to the fore in the country following comments by the Prime Minister Scott Morrison on June 19. According to the new remarks, Australian institutions of all kinds have fallen victim to cyber attacks from a sophisticated state based Read more…
The company that owns Palisades nuclear plant has a private pandemic plan that includes a contingency to sequester employees live at the site temporarily, though that scenario is unlikely, a company spokeswoman said. Entergy owns the nuclear plant situated on the Lake Michigan shoreline about 7 miles south of South Read more…
We have our first large scale data breach of the decade, Toll. Toll, a transport and logistics network which delivers up to 95 million items globally every year, has temporarily shut down a number of its IT systems as a precautionary measure after suffering a cyber-security breach on Friday, according Read more…
Albany County in the state of New York has been struck by two separate cyber-attacks in three weeks. A five-figure ransom in Bitcoin was paid by Albany County Airport Authority (ACAA) earlier this month after their servers became infected with ransomware on Christmas day. Airport CEO Philip Calderone said that the authority Read more…
DDoS attacks are getting harder to identify, and they will most likely be found to originate in Indonesia or China, new research has shown According to Akamai Technologies’ Second Quarter 2013 State of the Internet Report, “Adversaries conducting DDoS attacks spend increasing effort to make their attacks look more and more Read more…
Iranian cyber attacks against the United States could be arriving soon, experts say. Cybersecurity experts warn that there is a risk of a state sponsored by the Iranian state cyber attack against the United States remains high. During the past week, there have been concerns that Iran may retaliate against the United Read more…