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By Waqas The telecommunications sector also faced a significant onslaught in Q2 2023, becoming the second most targeted industry with an 83% YoY increase in DDoS attacks. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: DDoS Attacks Soar by 168% on Government Services, StormWall Warns

Cloud environments continue to be at the receiving end of an ongoing advanced attack campaign dubbed SCARLETEEL, with the threat actors now setting their sights on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Fargate. "Cloud environments are still their primary target, but the tools and techniques used have adapted to bypass new security measures, along with a more resilient and stealthy command and control

By Habiba Rashid The dark net, the illegal drugs, and what's next. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russian Dark Net Markets Dominate the Global Illicit Drug Trade: Report

US and Canadian government agencies find that new variants of the malware are increasingly being utilized.

Six months of honeypot data finds that 19% of traffic to sensors were malicious exploit attempts, and 95% of those attempts came from just three botnets.

Exposed and unpatched solar power monitoring systems have been exploited by both amateurs and professionals, including Mirai botnet hackers.

By Waqas Anonymous Sudan group took to Telegram to claim that it had stolen 30 million accounts belonging to Microsoft customers. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Microsoft rubbishes Anonymous Sudan’s claim of Stealing 30M accounts

The threat actors behind the DDoSia attack tool have come up with a new version that incorporates a new mechanism to retrieve the list of targets to be bombarded with junk HTTP requests in an attempt to bring them down. The updated variant, written in Golang, "implements an additional security mechanism to conceal the list of targets, which is transmitted from the [command-and-control] to the

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has placed a set of eight flaws to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. This includes six shortcomings affecting Samsung smartphones and two vulnerabilities impacting D-Link devices. All the flaws have been patched as of 2021. CVE-2021-25394 (CVSS score: 6.4) - Samsung mobile

Categories: News Tags: IoT Tags: Linux Tags: OpenSSH Tags: trojan Tags: botnet Tags: IRC Tags: attack Tags: compromise Poorly configured Linux and Internet of Things (IoT) devices are at risk of compromise from a cryptojacking campaign. (Read more...) The post OpenSSH trojan campaign targets Linux systems and IoT devices appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.