Jan 22, 2025Ravie LakshmananBotnet / Network Security Web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare on Tuesday said it detected and blocked a 5.6 Terabit per second (Tbps) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the largest ever attack to…
Canada’s largest school board says hackers may have accessed some 40 years’ worth of student data during the recent PowerSchool breach. In a letter sent to parents this week, the Toronto District School Board (TDSB)…
Jan 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananBotnet / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a new large-scale campaign that exploits security flaws in AVTECH IP cameras and Huawei HG532 routers to rope the devices into a Mirai botnet…
Jan 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananEmail Security / Botnet A global network of about 13,000 hijacked Mikrotik routers has been employed as a botnet to propagate malware via spam campaigns, the latest addition to a list of…
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise is investigating a data breach after a well-known hacker claimed to have stolen sensitive information from the company. The hacker, who uses the alias “IntelBroker,” claims to have stolen a trove of data…
A former analyst working for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) pleaded guilty to transmitting top secret National Defense Information (NDI) to individuals who did not have the necessary authorization to receive it and attempted to…
Imagine receiving a penetration test report that leaves you with more questions than answers. Questions like, “Were all functionalities of the web app tested?” or ” Were there any security issues that could have been…
Jan 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Windows Security Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a series of cyber attacks that have targeted Chinese-speaking regions like Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China with a known malware…
Jan 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cyber Threat The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) is warning of ongoing attempts by unknown threat actors to impersonate the cybersecurity agency by sending AnyDesk connection requests. The…
Jan 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / Vulnerability New research has uncovered security vulnerabilities in multiple tunneling protocols that could allow attackers to perform a wide range of attacks. “Internet hosts that accept tunneling packets without…