Think-Tanks Under Attack by Foreign APTs, CISA Warns

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the FBI have issued a warning on what they say are persistent, continued cyberattacks by advanced persistent threat APT actors targeting U.S. think-tanks. The attackers are looking to steal sensitive information, acquire user credentia...

Bomb Threat, DDoS Purveyor Gets Eight Years

A 22-year-old North Carolina man has been sentenced to nearly eight years in prison for conducting bomb threats against thousands of schools in the U.S. and United Kingdom, running a service that launched distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks, and for possessing sexually explicit images of...

Why Replace Traditional Web Application Firewall (WAF) With New Age WAF?

At present, web applications have become the top targets for attackers because of potential monetization opportunities. Security breaches on the web application can cost millions. Strikingly, DNS Domain Name System related outage and Distributed denial of service DDoS lead a negative impact on...

Why Replace Traditional Web Application Firewall (WAF) With New Age WAF?

At present, web applications have become the top targets for attackers because of potential monetization opportunities. Security breaches on the web application can cost millions. Strikingly, DNS Domain Name System related outage and Distributed denial of service DDoS lead a negative impact on...

Don't Let DDoS Extortionists Deliver a KO Punch

Since mid-August, a variety of threat actors and copycats alike have been targeting organizations across all industries globally, threatening impending DDoS attacks unless Bitcoin is paid out. It's apparent, as the campaign rages on, that some businesses must be paying the extortion demands, --...

Don't Let DDoS Extortionists Deliver a KO Punch

Since mid-August, a variety of threat actors and copycats alike have been targeting organizations across all industries globally, threatening impending DDoS attacks unless Bitcoin is paid out. It's apparent, as the campaign rages on, that some businesses must be paying the extortion demands, --...

IoT forecast: Running antivirus on your smart device?

In 2016, threat actors pulled off a basic but devastating botnet attack that harnessed the power of the Internet of Things IoT. After gathering a list of 61 default username and password combinations for IoT devices, threat actors scanned the Internet for open Telnet ports and, when they found a...

Holidays Are Coming – the State of Security for E-commerce in 2020

With the Coronavirus pandemic driving consumers online, a new report from Imperva reveals how this year’s holiday shopping season will present online retailers with a level of traffic - and cyber-attack threats - like they’ve never seen before. Among the many effects of COVID-19 has been a huge...

Potential DDoS when posting long data into workflow validation rules (NC-SA-2021-001)

A missing input validation in Nextcloud Server 20.0.1 allowed users to store unlimited data in workflow rules causing load and potential DDoS on later interactions and usage with those rules...

Botnet Attackers Turn to Vulnerable IoT Devices

The vast number of Internet-of-Things IoT devices are proving to be lucrative for botnet operators to carry out various attacks – from sending spam to launching harmful distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks, according to Derek Manky, Chief of Security Insights & Global Threat Alliances at...

Imperva SD-SOC: How Using AI and Time Series Traffic Improves DDoS Mitigation

Much has changed since we first started providing protection against DDoS attacks. Attacks which were once considered huge are now mitigated on a daily basis, attackers are becoming more sophisticated by the day, and mitigation takes a matter of seconds, as opposed to minutes, to kick in. But one...

Corporate Office and Kitchen Table: Securing the Future of Work, Part 2

The workforce is remote, the data center is the cloud, the corporate network is the internet, and the security stack is at the edge. In Part 1, I focused on the future of work, the most obvious feature being that the workforce is even more distributed, even more remote. Employees expect to be abl...

The Threat of DDoS Attacks Creates A Recipe for Election Chaos

Four years ago, we published a blog on the ways a Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack could disrupt the U.S. Presidential election. Unfortunately, the same risk persists in 2020. In fact, given the historic influx of mail-in ballot voting for the November 3 election, a targeted DDoS attack...

DDoS attacks in Q3 2020

News overview Q3 was relatively calm from a DDoS perspective. There were no headline innovations, although cybercriminals did continue to master techniques and develop malware already familiar to us from the last reporting period. For example, another DDoS botnet joined in the assault on Docker...

2020 DDoS Extortion Campaign -- A Sequel More Thrilling Than the Original

Costarring Susan McReynolds and Tom Emmons As you might imagine, as the go-to enterprise DDoS mitigation experts, our phones have been "ringing off the hook" as the global extortion DDoS campaign sequel rages on. It's bigger, badder, and features a broader cast of criminal characters than seen...

Nextcloud: Potential DDoS when posting long data into workflow validation rules

A missing input validation in Nextcloud Server 20.0.1 allowed users to store unlimited data in workflow rules causing load and potential DDoS on later interactions and usage with those rules...

Potential for Iranian Cyber Response to U.S. Military Strike in Baghdad

Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA is sharing the following information with the cybersecurity community as a primer for assisting in the protection of our Nation’s critical infrastructure in light of the current tensions between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the...

Election Security: Beyond Mail-In Voting

As a highly publicized event, every four years the U.S presidential election comes with inevitable security risks — and interest from high-level hackers and sophisticated cybercriminals looking to sway its results. The upcoming election ups the stakes — it has captured the attention of everyone...

This Week in Security News: Watering Hole Campaign Operation Earth Kitsune Spying on Users’ Systems and Fancy Bear Imposters Are on a Hacking Extortion Spree

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about a watering hole campaign Trend Micro dubbed ‘Operation Earth Kitsune’ that is spying on users’ systems through compromised...

Juniper Junos MX/EX9200 Series: DDoS Vulnerability (JSA11062)

The version of Junos OS installed on the remote host is MX series or EX9200 series prior to 17.2R3-S4, 17.2X75-D102, 17.3R3-S8, 17.4R2-S11,18.2R2-S7, 18.2X75-D30, or 18.3R2-S4. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the JSA11062 advisory. Note that Nessus has not tested fo...