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Corero Network Security has published the latest edition of its annual DDoS Threat Intelligence Report that compiles the trends, observations, predictions, and recommendations based on DDoS attacks against Corero customers during 2021. The report highlights that DDoS threats continue to grow in sophistication, size, and frequency.
Modern threat detection software addresses the challenges of identifying threats, finding the legitimate alerts out of all the noise, and locating bad actors by using Indicators of Compromise. Today's threat detection software works across the entire security stack to give security teams the visibility they need to take appropriate steps and actions.
Corero Network Security has published the latest edition of its annual DDoS Threat Intelligence Report that compiles the trends, observations, predictions, and recommendations based on DDoS attacks against Corero customers during 2021. Stephenson adds, "Combined with the 82% share of short duration DDoS attacks, the intention is that these stealthier transient attacks will appear as legitimate traffic, bypassing simple security measures and succeeding in choking access to important downstream services or connections." Frequency of repeat attacks also grew with a 29% increase in organizations who experienced a second attack within a week.
ChromeLoader may seem on the surface like a run-of-the-mill browser hijacker that merely redirects victims to advertisement websites. ChromeLoader is a pervasive and persistent browser hijacker that eventually manifests as a browser extension, modifying victims' Chrome settings and redirecting user traffic to advertisement websites.
In 2021, ransomware attacks continued to be one of the most prominent threats targeting businesses and organizations worldwide. High-profile attacks disrupted operations of companies in various sectors.
The paper reveals companies are more concerned and exposed to cyber threats than ever before, with 61 percent describing themselves as at best only "Fairly confident" at managing their current cybersecurity threat exposure, which should raise some eyebrows around the boardroom. Respondents also feared their cyber strategy would not keep pace with the rate of tech innovation and changes in the threat landscape.
Mandiant is a companies whose business centers around digital forensics and incident response as well as cyber threat intelligence. Understanding complex challenges and developing solutions to solve them is key to CTI. The investigative mindset needs experienced understanding of cyber threat actors' TTP as well as CTI tools, frameworks and IT systems.
Egress issued its mid-year 2022 threat report offering details of emerging threats along with insights about protecting employees, customers, and businesses from these specific cyberattacks. The report provides comprehensive details about threats associated with scam cryptocurrency donations to war-torn Ukraine, email phishing attacks using LinkedIn to target jobseekers, a rise in sextortion phishing emails and zero-day exploits circulating on the dark web, targeting electronic voters as well as Facebook and Gmail users.
The internet has become the catalyst to an ever-growing global economy. At its foundation, it was designed for connectivity, but not security.
A new FLASH report from the FBI warns about cyber actors scraping credit card data from compromised online checkout pages from US businesses. According to the FBI, a US business was targeted in September 2020 by an unidentified threat actor, who inserted malicious PHP code into the checkout page of the targeted company website.