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A new distributed denial-of-service attack that took place on Monday, September 12, has broken the previous record that Akamai recorded recently in July. The cybersecurity and cloud services company Akamai reports that the recent attack appears to originate from the same threat actor, meaning that the operators are in the process of empowering their swarm further.
A Chinese hacking group has been attributed to a new campaign aimed at infecting government officials in Europe, the Middle East, and South America with a modular malware known as PlugX. Cybersecurity firm Secureworks said it identified the intrusions in June and July 2022, once again demonstrating the adversary's continued focus on espionage against governments around the world. "PlugX is modular malware that contacts a command and control server for tasking and can download additional plugins to enhance its capability beyond basic information gathering," Secureworks Counter Threat Unit said in a report shared with The Hacker News.
Akamai Technologies squelched the largest-ever distributed denial-of-service attack in Europe earlier this month against a company that was being consistently hammered over a 30-day period. The user datagram protocol was the most popular vector used in the attack and was seen in the record spikes.
Researchers have uncovered a gigantic network of more than 11,000 domains used to promote numerous fake investment schemes to users in Europe. Eventually, the victim is convinced to deposit 250 EUR or more, while the details provided on the fake site are stored and used for future campaigns or resold on the dark web.
The largest distributed denial-of-service attack that Europe has ever seen occurred earlier this month and hit an organization in Eastern Europe. DDoS incidents have become more frequent since the start of the year as attackers try to deny access to the victim's digital services by flooding them with requests and traffic to overwhelm resources and render them unavailable.
The reversal, reported by TechCrunch, comes a day after the Italian data protection authority - the Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali - warned the company against the change, citing violations of data protection laws. "The personal data stored in users' devices may not be used to profile those users and send personalized ads without their explicit consent," the Garante said.
A newly discovered multistage remote access trojan dubbed ZuoRAT has been used to target remote workers via small office/home office routers across North America and Europe undetected since 2020. The start of this campaign roughly lines up with a quick shift to remote work after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic which drastically increased the number of SOHO routers used by employees to access corporate assets from home.
It’s day two of Infosecurity Europe 2022 at the ExCeL in London. Here’s a look at the event, the featured vendors are: Akamai, SecurityScorecard, Edgescan, ManageEngine, Securonix, F5, ServiceNow,...
Infosecurity Europe 2022 opened its doors today at the ExCeL in London, here’s a look inside the event. The featured vendors are: Akamai Technologies, AlgoSec, Appgate, AwareGO, Bridewell,...
An advanced persistent threat group dubbed ToddyCat has been targeting Microsoft Exchange servers throughout Asia and Europe for more than a year, since at least December 2020. At the time, the hacking group exploited the ProxyLogon Exchange flaws that allowed them to gain remote code execution on vulnerable servers to deploy China Chopper web shells.