System Security & Vulnerability Threat Warning

Forensic Analysis of a DDoS Attack

  • Monday, 15 Feb 2016
  • Author: Netfort Blog

Over the past 10 days in Ireland, numerous online services and public networks have been targeted by DDoS attacks. A recent article from the BBC also suggests that website-crippling cyber-attacks are to rise in 2016. ...

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Financial institutions on high alert for major cyber attack

  • Monday, 15 Feb 2016
  • Author: Warwick Ashford, Computer Weekly

A major financial institution is likely to be hit by significant cyber criminal activity in 2016, according to the latest ThreatMetrix Cybercrime Report. ...

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500 Gbps DDoS Attack Recorded in 2015, Biggest One Yet

  • Monday, 15 Feb 2016
  • Author: Catalin Cimpanu, Softpedia

Arbor Networks’ 11th Annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report reveals that, for the first time in history, a company reported a DDoS attack that surpassed the 500 Gbps mark, something that was almost unbelievable only a few years back. ...

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SLOTH Downgrades TLS 1.2 Encrypted Channels

  • Monday, 15 Feb 2016
  • Author: William Gamazo Sanchez, TrendLabs Blog

Early last month a new vulnerability was found in how TLS 1.2 was implemented. Researchers from the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) called this new attack SLOTH (Security Losses from Obsolete and Truncated Transcript Hashes). ....

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Kovter Malware Victims Were Secret Zombies in the ProxyGate Proxy Network

  • Friday, 05 Feb 2016
  • Author: Catalin Cimpanu, Softpedia

During the past few months, computers infected with the Kovter click-fraud malware were also secretly added to the proxy network operated by ProxyGate, the Forcepoint team reports ....

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Indian, US, UK finance department employees targeted with remote access Trojans

  • Friday, 05 Feb 2016
  • Author: Symantec Security Response, Symantec Connect Blog

Attackers have been spreading two families of remote access Trojans (RATs) to small businesses in India, the UK, and US since the start of 2015. The attackers have been targeting employees responsible for accounts and fund transfers in order to steal money from affected organizations. ...

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Dridex Launches Dyre-Like Attacks in UK, Intensifies Focus on Business Accounts

  • Friday, 05 Feb 2016
  • Author: Limor Kessem, Security Intelligence (IBM)

IBM X-Force researchers have been following new developments in the Dridex Trojan’s attack methodologies. In their latest alert, researchers divulged a new modus operandi launched by Evil Corp, the cybercrime group that owns and operates the Dridex banking Trojan. ....

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Common Android and Linux Zero-Day Gives Attackers Root Access

  • Friday, 05 Feb 2016
  • Author: Catalin Cimpanu, Softpedia

Security researchers from Perception Point have uncovered a new zero-day in the Linux kernel that affects both the Linux operating system and the Android mobile OS. Successful exploitation of this flaw (CVE-2016-0728) gives attackers root access to the impacted devices. ...

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Ukraine blames Russia for cyber-attack on airport

  • Friday, 05 Feb 2016
  • Author: Rene Millman, SC Magazine

The Ukrainian government said that Russia is behind cyber-attacks that have left its largest airport infected with the Black Energy malware. ....

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Trochilus RAT discovered by Arbor Networks

  • Friday, 05 Feb 2016
  • Author: Doug Olenick, SC Magazine

Arbor Networks has identified a new Remote Access Trojan (RAT), dubbed Trochilus, that has proven to be basically invisible to anti-malware software and possibly used for espionage purposes. ....

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