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. ...
Read moreA major financial institution is likely to be hit by significant cyber criminal activity in 2016, according to the latest ThreatMetrix Cybercrime Report. ...
Read moreArbor 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. ...
Read moreEarly 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). ....
Read moreDuring 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 ....
Read moreAttackers 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. ...
Read moreIBM 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. ....
Read moreSecurity 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. ...
Read moreThe Ukrainian government said that Russia is behind cyber-attacks that have left its largest airport infected with the Black Energy malware. ....
Read moreArbor 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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