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Mirai Common Attack Methods Remain Consistent, Effective
While relatively unchanged, the notorious IoT botnet still continues to drive DDoS.
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While relatively unchanged, the notorious IoT botnet still continues to drive DDoS.
Dark Reading
CISA urges small and midsized organizations as well as critical infrastructures to implement mitigations to shield from further attacks.
Dark Reading
The Swiss Army knife-like browser extension is heaven for attackers — and can be hell for enterprise users.
Dark Reading
TCP-based, DNS water-torture, and carpet-bombing attacks dominate the DDoS threat landscape, while Ireland, India, Taiwan, and Finland are battered by DDoS attacks resulting from the Russia/Ukraine war.
The Hacker News
With Microsoft taking steps to block Excel 4.0 (XLM or XL4) and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros by default across Office apps, malicious actors are responding by refining their new tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). "The use of VBA and XL4 Macros decreased approximately 66% from October 2021 through June 2022," Proofpoint said in a report shared with The Hacker News. In its
ZDNet Security
Log4j also became a top pick for exploitation after the discovery of a critical RCE flaw.
The Hacker News
Some weeks have one big security story. Others bring many smaller updates that are easy to miss but still matter. This week has plenty of them, covering cloud services, AI tools, malware, data breaches, scams, and new attack methods. The latest ThreatsDay Bulletin puts all of these short updates in one place, so you can quickly catch up on what happened, what changed, and what security teams
The Hacker News
Attackers whose methods line up with the data-extortion group ShinyHunters have spent the past year walking into corporate Salesforce environments without exploiting a single flaw in the platform. The way in has been the trust the organization had already extended, usually through the OAuth connections that tie Salesforce to the apps and third-party vendors around it. In
The Hacker News
Some weeks are loud. This one was quieter but not in a good way. Long-running operations are finally hitting courtrooms, old attack methods are showing up in new places, and research that stopped being theoretical right around the time defenders stopped paying attention. There's a bit of everything this week. Persistence plays, legal wins, influence ops, and at least one thing that looks boring
Dark Reading
Ransomware actors are ditching Cobalt Strike in favor of native Windows tools, as payment rates hit record lows and data theft surges.