Researchers have analysed a campaign leveraging infected SOHO routers to target predominantly North American and European networks of interest. The so-called…
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Massive increase in XorDDoS Linux malware in last six months
Microsoft says it’s recorded a massive increasein XorDDoSactivity (254 percent) in the last six months. XorDDoS, a Linux Trojan known for…
What SMBs can do to protect against Log4Shell attacks
As you may already know, the business, tech, and cybersecurity industries have been buzzing about Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228), aka Logjam, the latest…
Realtek-based routers, smart devices are being gobbled up by a voracious botnet
A few weeks ago we blogged about a vulnerability in home routers that was weaponized by the Mirai botnet just two…
Largest DDoS attack ever reported gets hoovered up by Cloudflare
On the Cloudflare blog, the American web infrastructure behemoth that provides content delivery network (CDN) and DDoS mitigation services reports that…
Home routers are being hijacked using vulnerability disclosed just 2 days ago
The early bird catches the worm. Unless the worm was early enough to hide. On August 3, 2021 a vulnerability that…
IoT forecast: Running antivirus on your smart device?
In 2016, threat actors pulled off a basic but devastating botnet attack that harnessed the power of the Internet of Things…
4 lessons to be learned from the DOE’s DDoS attack
Analysts, researchers, industry professionals, and pundits alike have all posited the dangers of the next-generation “smart grid,” particularly when it comes…
How 5G could impact cybersecurity strategy
With the recent news that South Korea has rolled out the world’s first 5G network, it’s clear that we’re on the…
Five unsettling cyberthreats
Cyberthreats are typically boring, repetitive, and require a reasonably predictable remediation process. A SQL injection is a SQL injection, no matter…