The 5 Big ‘Known Unknowns’ of Donald Trump’s New War With Iran

The all-out air assault on the Islamic Republic might be the biggest gamble of the president’s career...

EUVD-2009-2542

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CVE-2009-2549

Armed Assault aka ArmA 1.14 and earlier, and 1.16 beta, and Armed Assault II 1.02 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a join packet with a final field whose value is 1 0, which triggers a server crash related to memory allocation, or 2 1, which triggers CPU/memory...

CVE-2009-2548

Format string vulnerability in Armed Assault aka ArmA 1.14 and earlier, and 1.16 beta, and Armed Assault II 1.02 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the 1 nickname and 2 datafile fields in a joi...

Criminal Gang Physically Assaulting People for Their Cryptocurrency

This is pretty horrific: …a group of men behind a violent crime spree designed to compel victims to hand over access to their cryptocurrency savings. That announcement and the criminal complaint laying out charges against St. Felix focused largely on a single theft of cryptocurrency from an elder...

Police investigate sexual assault on an avatar

British police are investigating a case involving a virtual sexual assault of a girls avatar. Even though there was no physical violence involved the incident will be investigated as it has caused psychological trauma. By definition, an avatar is a virtual representation of a user and is driven b...

Discover How Gcore Thwarted Powerful 1.1Tbps and 1.6Tbps DDoS Attacks

The most recent Gcore Radar report and its aftermath have highlighted a dramatic increase in DDoS attacks across multiple industries. At the beginning of 2023, the average strength of attacks reached 800 Gbps, but now, even a peak as high as 1.5+ Tbps is unsurprising. To try and break through...

Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Actors 17 July to 23 July 2023

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForce Labs recently made several significant discoveries related to cybersecurity threats. Over the past week, the fact that there were a total of eleven attacks executed, nine vulnerabilities, and three different adversaries...

Australian Healthcare Sector Targeted in Latest Gootkit Malware Attacks

A recent wave of Gootkit malware loader attacks has targeted the Australian healthcare sector by leveraging legitimate tools like VLC Media Player. Gootkit, also called Gootloader, is known to employ search engine optimization SEO poisoning tactics aka spamdexing for initial access. It typically...

When a sextortion victim fights back

When Katie Yates suddenly started receiving nude photos of her friend, Natalie Claus, over on Snapchat, she instantly recognized that Claus had just become a victim of a sextortion attack. She also knew how Claus should respond. This happened in December 2019 when Claus was a sophomore. Both were...

U.S. Government Warns Companies of Potential Russian Cyber Attacks

The U.S. government on Monday once again cautioned of potential cyber attacks from Russia in retaliation for economic sanctions imposed by the west on the country following its military assault on Ukraine last month. "It's part of Russia's playbook," U.S. President Joe Biden said in a statement,...

Actions Akamai Is Taking on Russia and Ukraine

Akamai stands with the people of Ukraine. As the assault on Ukraine continues, we are inspired by the courageous citizens defending their sovereignty...

U.S. Sanctions 4 Ukrainians for Working with Russia to Destabilize Ukraine

The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday announced sanctions against four current and former Ukrainian government officials for engaging in "Russian government-directed influence activities" in the country, including gathering sensitive information about its critical infrastructure. The agency sa...

DNS Amplification Attacks Explained

Meaning of DNS Amplification Attacks A Domain Name System DNS enhancement assault is one out of various circulated refusal of administration DDoS assaults. Very much like different assaults of this nature, the objective of aggressors is to keep clients from utilizing a specific organization,...

What is (SQLi) SQL Injection❓ — Types, Example and Prevention. Part 1

What is SQLi SQL Injection❓ — Types, Example and Prevention. Part 1 SQL injection concept Data is among the most crucial parts of every information system. Hence, organizations use databases that are fueled by applications on the web to get clients’ information. Now, it’s crucial to properly mana...

What is Ping of Death Assault?

Ping of death is a strategy for DoS Denial of Service assault. It’s an attack-type that objectifies the ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol and the TCP Transmission Control Protocol, and is quite possibly the most undermining of all ICMP attacks. The ping of death attack is otherwise called a...

Microsoft Caught Up in SolarWinds Spy Effort, Joining Federal Agencies

UPDATE Microsoft has become the latest victim of the ever-widening SolarWinds-driven cyberattack that has impacted rafts of federal agencies and tech targets. Its president, Brad Smith, warned late Thursday to expect many more victims to come to light as investigations continue. Adversaries were...