Federal prosecutors in the U.S. have charged two Sudanese brothers with running a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet for hire that conducted a record 35,000 DDoS attacks in a single year, including those that targeted Microsoft’s services in June 2023. The attacks, which were facilitated by Anonymous Sudan’s “powerful DDoS tool,” singled out critical infrastructure, corporate […]
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A MOIS-aligned threat group has been using Microsoft Exchange servers to exfiltrate sensitive data from Gulf-state government agencies. Go to Source Author: Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer
A critical security flaw has been disclosed in the Kubernetes Image Builder that, if successfully exploited, could be abused to gain root access under certain circumstances. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-9486 (CVSS score: 9.8), has been addressed in version 0.1.38. The project maintainers acknowledged Nicolai Rybnikar for discovering and reporting the vulnerability. “A security issue […]
But the time when quantum computers pose a tangible threat to modern encryption is likely still several years away. Go to Source Author: Jai Vijayan, Contributing Writer
By using EDRSilencer, threat actors are able to prevent security alerts and reports getting generated. Go to Source Author: Dark Reading Staff
The shift to a distributed work model has exposed organizations to new threats, and a low but continuing stream of printer-related vulnerabilities isn’t helping. Go to Source Author: Jai Vijayan, Contributing Writer
Challenges with cybercrime prosecution are making it easier for attackers to act with impunity. Law enforcement needs to catch up. Go to Source Author: Ilia Kolochenko
Threat actors are attempting to abuse the open-source EDRSilencer tool as part of efforts to tamper endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions and hide malicious activity. Trend Micro said it detected “threat actors attempting to integrate EDRSilencer in their attacks, repurposing it as a means of evading detection.” EDRSilencer, inspired by the NightHawk FireBlock tool […]