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Today, cyberattacks have become the norm, transforming how we think about war and international conflict as a whole. As cyberwarfare has evolved, Chinese-linked cyberattacks have increased.
MGM Resorts International disclosed today that it is dealing with a cybersecurity issue that impacted some of its systems, including its main website and online reservations. "MGM Resorts recently identified a cybersecurity issue affecting some of the Company's systems," the company announced on its profile page on X. The company says that it started an investigation immediately after detecting the issue "And took prompt action to protect our systems and data, including shutting down certain systems."
Payment processing firm Square says a widespread outage that took down a large part of the company's infrastructure last week was caused by a DNS issue. The 14-hour-long outage affected Square payment acceptance and other services and led to customers being unable to log into their accounts or process payments starting Thursday, around noon.
A Mirai botnet variant called Pandora has been observed infiltrating inexpensive Android-based TV sets and TV boxes and using them as part of a botnet to perform distributed denial-of-service attacks. Doctor Web said the compromises are likely to occur either during malicious firmware updates or when applications for viewing pirated video content are installed.
On Tuesday, the University of Michigan warned staff and students that they must reset their account passwords after a recent cyberattack."The University of Michigan is requiring all community members to change their UMICH password by the end of day on Tuesday, September 12," UMICH CISO Sol Bermann and CIO Ravi Pendse said in emails to university staff and students.
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine on Tuesday said it thwarted a cyber attack against an unnamed critical energy infrastructure facility in the country. "Visiting the link will download a ZIP archive containing three JPG images and a BAT file 'weblinks.cmd' to the victim's computer," CERT-UA said, attributing it to the Russian threat actor known as APT28.
The Coffee Meets Bagel dating platform confirms last week's outage was caused by hackers breaching the company's systems and deleting company data. Last week, Coffee Meets Bagel suffered a worldwide outage, with users upset that they could not coordinate planned dates or continue communicating with their matches.
Total number of malware-based attacks: 1,578,733 Number of unique attacks: 200,454 Average number of cyberattacks per day: 17,280 Average number of cyberattacks per hour: 720 Average number of attacks per minute: 12 Average number of new malware variants per minute: 1.5. Attacks ramped up again as cybercriminals got back to work in the new year.
The University of Michigan has taken all of its systems and services offline to deal with a cybersecurity incident, causing a widespread impact on online services the night before classes started. University of Michigan is one of the oldest and largest educational institutes in the United States, employing over 30,000 academic and administrative staff and having roughly 51,000 students.
To the importance of application security testing, we will also discuss the different areas of vulnerability testing and its various phases. Finally, we will provide details on how a long-term preventative solution such as PTaaS can protect e-commerce businesses and the differences between continuous testing and standard pen testing.