Traditional ransomware attacks may have taken over the news, but Proofpoint researchers say the malicious actors who presents themselves as the North Korean-backed Lazarus advanced persistent threat group have revamped their distributed denial-of-service ransom extortion strategy and rebranded.
According to a Threat Landscape Trends report for Q2 2020, cryptojacking saw a 163% increase in detections, compared to previous quarters. 35% of organizations indicated in a survey by NinjaRMM, that ransomware attacks resulted in up to $5 million in damages. Similarly we see an explosion in DDoS attacks. In times...
As times change, many companies and organizations have worked on ramping up their multi-faceted security defenses. However, threat actors and cyber criminals also adapt and hunt for new vulnerabilities, compromising data by embracing new exploits to ensure substantial financial payoff.
In this report, we...
The mainframe is a prime target for cybercriminals, while also playing a central role in the daily operations of most of the world’s largest corporations, including banking, finance, healthcare, insurance, and many other types of enterprises.
The mainframe is often underprotected due in part to the longstanding...
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Researchers at Check Point Research are tracking a new botnet dubbed "FreakOut" that's targeting vulnerabilities in Linux systems. The malware is creating a malicious network that has the potential to launch DDoS attacks.
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Large financial services organisations continually face a broad variety of threat actors, including the most persistent of all -- nation-state sponsored outfits. We spoke with some leading consumer banks about how they are leveraging their analyst teams in more strategic ways and vastly improving their security...
Ransomware attacks remain the top cyber-enabled threat seen by law enforcement. But phishing, business email compromises and other types of fraud - many now using a COVID-19 theme - also loom large, Europol warns in its latest Internet Organized Crime Threat Assessment.
Email and collaboration platforms are the connective tissue
of most businesses and organizations, where information
is shared, plans are hatched, and alliances formed. Yet as a
human-driven medium, email often represents the 'weakest
link' in an organization's security strategy. Indeed, 94% of
cyber-threats...
Email and collaboration platforms are the connective tissue
of most businesses and organizations, where information
is shared, plans are hatched, and alliances formed. Yet as a
human-driven medium, email often represents the 'weakest
link' in an organization's security strategy. Indeed, 94% of
cyber-threats...
A recently updated version of the "InterPlanetary Storm" botnet is now infecting Mac and Android devices as well as those running Windows and Linux, researchers at Barracuda Networks say.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is warning of an increase in targeted distributed denial-of-service attacks against financial and government organizations worldwide. And security firms also are tracking the incidents in these and other sectors.
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Lucifer, a botnet that has been infecting Windows devices with cryptominers and using compromised systems for distributed denial-of-service attacks, now has the ability to compromise Linux-based systems as well, according to Netscout's ATLAS Security Engineering & Response Team.
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