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The British professional hacker behind the 2016 Mirai attack on Lonestar, Liberia’s largest telecom company, was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison, announced the UK National Crime Agency. Daniel Kaye, also known as “BestBuy&… Continue reading British Hacker-for-Hire Goes to Prison for Liberian Telecom, Deutsche Telekom Mirai Attack
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A court in London has sentenced a British and Israeli cyber criminal Daniel Kaye aka “BestBuy and Popopret” to two years and eight months in prison for conducting large scale DDoS attacks on Lonestar Cell MTN disrupting countryR… Continue reading Man whose DDoS attacks took down entire country’s Internet jailed
MikroTik, Hadoop clusters, legislation and more will mark the botnet space in 2019. Continue reading Newsmaker Interview: Troy Mursch on Top Botnet Trends
Industrial facilities cybersecurity is very critical for the national security of every state and comes once more into focus following the recent Honeywell’s Industrial USB Threat Report. With increasing pressure to limit network access to indust… Continue reading USB Threats to Cybersecurity of Industrial Facilities
The world of DDoS is dynamic and evolving. So, when considering the most important features that a DDoS Mitigation should have, it’s always worth examining them in light of recent trends and applying some lessons learned. That, however, can be a … Continue reading Six ‘Lessons Learned’ For Mitigating DDoS Attacks
Adobe Systems fixed a critical vulnerability in Flash Player that was publicly disclosed by a researcher earlier this month. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-15981, is a type confusion issue that can lead to arbitrary code execution. It was fixe… Continue reading Adobe Patches Zero-Day Flaw in Flash Player
As internet users migrate from desktop and laptop computers to mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) platforms, cybercriminals are too. Continue reading Mobile and IoT attacks – SophosLabs 2019 Threat Report
If a network-connected smoke detector starts communicating with the mail server, you know you have a problem. Continue reading Stopping the Infiltration of Things
TL;DR Rate of Hadoop YARN exploits is slowing but still at a concerning 350,000 events per day 1065 servers are exposed and vulnerable The geographic spread of vulnerable servers and the targets of the attacks is global and concentrated in regions wit… Continue reading Hadoop YARN: An Assessment of the Attack Surface and Its Exploits
With their ability to carry malware into sensitive environments, USB drives have long been a red flag for industrial facilities. A new study puts hard data behind those concerns and shows how the drives can propagate advanced threats like Stuxnet and Trisis. Of the 50 industrial sites on four continents where Honeywell International analyzed USB usage, 44 percent of sites detected and blocked at least one malicious file. These weren’t just run-of-the-mill files: 15 percent of the threats detected and blocked were infamous malware packages like Stuxnet and Trisis (2 percent each), Mirai (6 percent) and WannaCry (1 percent). About a quarter of the threats blocked could cause “a major disruption to an industrial control environment,” according to Honeywell, an industrial automation giant. The overall volume of USB-based malware found by Honeywell researchers was relatively small, but the types of threats detected were more serious than researchers had anticipated. “It’s […]
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