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China has very firmly pushed back against the accusation it paid contractors to attack Microsoft's Exchange Server. The USA, UK, NATO and other nations on Monday named China as the source of the attack.
The report investigates changes in attack vector, size and frequency, and reveals a staggering 50% increase in peak attack traffic compared to 2019, with a jump to 1.18 Terabytes per Second or 887 Mega Packets Per Second. During the same period, the average size of a DDoS attack was 19 Gbps, with an average duration of 10 minutes.
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Cybersecurity researchers on Wednesday disclosed details of an evolving malware that has now been upgraded to steal sensitive information from Apple's macOS operating system. While the very first Formbook samples were detected in the wild in January 2016, the sale of the malware on underground forums stopped in October 2017, only to be resurrected more than two years later in the form of XLoader in February 2020.
The U.S. government and its key allies, including the European Union, the U.K., and NATO, formally attributed the massive cyberattack against Microsoft Exchange email servers to state-sponsored hacking crews working affiliated with the People's Republic of China's Ministry of State Security. "In a statement issued by the White House on Monday, the administration said,"with a high degree of confidence that malicious cyber actors affiliated with PRC's MSS conducted cyber-espionage operations utilizing the zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server disclosed in early March 2021.
Northern Rail, one of the UK's local railway systems covering the north of England, had its new self-service ticketing machines taken off-line following a ransomware attack last week. Railways in the UK are operated under a licensed franchise system following the breakup of the state-owned British Rail, which was privatized gradually from 1994 to 1997.
There has been a 33% increase in the number of DDoS attacks in H1 2021, according to a report published by Link11. The report also found that between Q1 2021 and Q2 2021 there was a 19% increase in DDoS campaigns, some of which were over 100 Gbps in attack volume; further evidence that hackers are continuing to exploit the vulnerabilities of businesses during the pandemic.
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The U.S. government on Tuesday attributed several past attacks involving industrial control systems to Russian, Chinese and Iranian state-sponsored threat actors. "CISA and the FBI assess that these actors were specifically targeting U.S. pipeline infrastructure for the purpose of holding U.S. pipeline infrastructure at risk. Additionally, CISA and the FBI assess that this activity was ultimately intended to help China develop cyberattack capabilities against U.S. pipelines to physically damage pipelines or disrupt pipeline operations," the agencies said.