Cybercrime , DDoS Protection , Endpoint Security 17.2 Million Request-Per-Second Attack Launched by 20,000 Bots, Cloudflare Says Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • August 21, 2021 Security firm Cloudflare says it detected and mitigated a 17.2 million request-per-second distributed denial-of-service attack, almost three times larger than any previously reported HTTP DDoS attack. See Also: 2021…
A T-Mobile logo is seen on the storefront door of a store in Manhattan, New York, U.S., April 30, 2018. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton Aug 20 (Reuters) – T-Mobile US Inc (TMUS.O) said on Friday an ongoing investigation into a data breach revealed that hackers accessed personal information of an additional 5.3 million customers, bringing the total…
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management , Patch Management Researchers Find Ransomware Gangs Now Exploiting the Vulnerabilities Mihir Bagwe • August 23, 2021 The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is warning organizations to patch the ProxyShell vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange email servers because security researchers say ransomware gangs are exploiting…
Cryptocurrency platform Poly Network said on Monday that almost all of the $610 million (roughly Rs. 4,523 crores) stolen this month in one of the biggest crypto heists had now been returned by the unknown person or persons behind the attack. In a Twitter post, Poly Network said it had regained control of all the…
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Nations Agree to Collaborate on Information Sharing, Training Dan Gunderman (dangun127) • August 23, 2021 U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is in Asia this week. (Photo: Gage Skidmore via Flickr) The U.S. and Singapore have announced three agreements to expand…
Breach Notification , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Incident & Breach Response Australia Regulator Says Such Breaches Are Likely Underreported Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • August 23, 2021 Australia’s data protection regulator says organizations hit by ransomware may be underreporting data breaches because they haven’t thoroughly figured out if data was taken. See Also:…
Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday during a visit to Singapore dodged question on whether her administration had made mistakes in its Afghanistan withdrawal, insisting they were focused on evacuation efforts and noting there would be plenty of time later on to analyze mistakes the US government made. And as she boarded the plane to…
Governance & Risk Management , Incident & Breach Response , IT Risk Management Department Recently Received a ‘D’ Grade for Its Cybersecurity Defenses Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • August 23, 2021 Secretary of State Antony Blinken briefing reporters earlier this month (Source: State Department) The U.S. State Department reportedly recently sustained a cyber incident…
CISA Warns Organizations of ProxyShell Attacks on Exchange Servers | IT Security News 23. August 2021 This article has been indexed from SecurityWeek RSS Feed The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) over the weekend issued an alert to warn of malicious actors actively exploiting the recently disclosed Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities named ProxyShell. read…
Governance & Risk Management , Incident & Breach Response , IT Risk Management Department Recently Received a ‘D’ Grade for Its Cybersecurity Defenses Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • August 23, 2021 Secretary of State Antony Blinken briefing reporters earlier this month (Source: State Department) The U.S. State Department reportedly recently sustained a cyber incident…
