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Nexusguard DDoS Statistical Report reveals key attack observations and analysis from the first half of 2022.

By Jon Munshaw.  Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.  October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Which, if you’ve been on social media at all the past 13 days or read any cybersecurity news website, you surely know already.  As it does every year, I saw Cybersecurity Awareness Month kick off with a lot of snark and memes of people joking about what it even means to be “aware” of cybersecurity and why we even have this month at all. And I get why it’s easy to poke fun at, it is at its core a marketing-driven campaign, and hardcore security experts and researchers have notoriously pushed back against this being a marketing-driven field.  I’m not saying there should be Cybersecurity Awareness Month mascots brought to life on the floor of Black Hat, but it is probably time to pump the brakes on the skepticism and snark. After all, this week should be about broadening the security community, not trying to exclude others from it. I came to Talos ...

By Owais Sultan Hospitals and medical facilities are lucrative targets for hackers. It’s not enough anymore to keep software updated and… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Cybersecurity Threats to Health Services: Why We Should Be Concerned

Killnet calls on other groups to launch similar attacks against US civilian infrastructure, including marine terminals and logistics facilities, weather monitoring centers, and healthcare systems.

By Waqas As seen by Hackread.com, the Iranian broadcaster was hacked while airing a news bulletin on Saturday night. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Iran State-Run TV’s Live Transmission Hacked by Edalate Ali Hackers

Russian-speaking cyberattackers boast they are behind disruption of Colorado, Kentucky, and Mississippi government websites.

The malware-as-a-service group Eternity is selling a one-stop shop for various malware modules it's been distributing individually via a subscription model on Telegram.

The threat actor behind the malware-as-a-service (MaaS) called Eternity has been linked to new piece of malware called LilithBot. "It has advanced capabilities to be used as a miner, stealer, and a clipper along with its persistence mechanisms," Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers Shatak Jain and Aditya Sharma said in a Wednesday report. "The group has been continuously enhancing the malware, adding

Categories: Threat Intelligence In September, LockBit accounted for almost half of all known ransomware attacks. (Read more...) The post Ransomware review: September 2022 appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: News Tags: compromise Tags: ransomware Tags: leak Tags: extortion Tags: LAUSD Data stolen from Los Angeles Unified School District has been leaked online, after staff refused to pay the ransom related to a ransomware attack. (Read more...) The post Ransomware-affected school district refuses to pay, gets stolen data released appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.