While the number of DDoS attacks have declined, they have become much more sophisticated, according to a Kaspersky Lab report. The last quarter of 2018 saw the longest DDoS attack since 2015, lasting 329 hours—almost 2 weeks—according to a Kaspersky Lab report released on Thursday. But the top three countries with the most DDoS attacks are still the same: China in first place ...
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Australian government falls prey to a hacking attempt, incident under investigation
Officials are investigating the security incident that occurred on the government’s computer network. Following the hack attempt, the Department of Parliamentary Services announced that it reset all user passwords in the network. The Australian Parliament became a victim to a hacking attempt yesterday, allegedly perpetrated by a foreign entity. Reportedly, ‘no evidence’ was available to show whether any confidential information ...
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Read More »Cyber-attack’ on Bernard Matthews staff bank details
A suspected cyber-attack “potentially compromised” the bank account details of 200 workers at Bernard Matthews. The Norfolk-based turkey producer said it was alerted by its bank on 22 January, as first reported in the EDP. “We reported the incident to the relevant authorities and put in place extra security measures,” a spokesman said. “We continue to monitor the situation but we ...
Read More »MATRIX RANSOMWARE CHANGES THE RULES AGAIN | HOW MUCH ARE YOU WORTH?
As noted in the SentinelOne-sponsored EMA Security Megatrends 2019 report, the two greatest threats currently facing enterprise are ransomware and ATAs, advanced targeted attacks that have been designed for a specific environment. The last two years have seen an increase in both kinds of threats, as well as their combination: targeted ransomware such as Ryuk, SamSam, and now Matrix. Matrix variants have been observed before, but ...
Read More »Attackers rely on Google Sheets to spread malware through CSV files
The malware appears to be a variant of the infamous NanoCore trojan.CSV files containing the malware payload circumvent Google filters using Google Sheets as a distribution method. A unique malware that uses Google Sheets has been discovered by well-known cyber security researcher Marco Ramili. The malware is found to be an improved version of the NanoCore RAT detected in 2014. ...
Read More »Google adds Password Checkup Chrome extension
Google has rolled out a new Chrome extension that will inform users if their passwords have been compromised. The service, which was introduced as part of Google’s Safer Internet Day offerings, is called Password Checkup. The Chrome extension checks a person’s username and password against a list of four billion credentials that are known to be compromised. If a match occurs the ...
Read More »Google releases February 2019 security patch for Pixel devices, Essential Phone gets updated too
Google has started pushing out latest monthly Android security update for its Pixel smartphones and Pixel C tablet. On Monday, Google Pixel 3, Pixel 3 XL, Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL, Pixel, Pixel XL, and Pixel C devices got their latest February 2019 security patch along with bug fixes. Parallely, Essential has also rolled out the latest February 2019 security update for Essential ...
Read More »Google’s New Tool Alerts When You Use Compromised Credentials On Any Site
With so many data breaches happening almost every week, it has become difficult for users to know if their credentials are already in possession of hackers or being circulated freely across the Internet. Thankfully, Google has a solution. Today, February 5, on Safer Internet Day, Google launches a new service that has been designed to alert users when they use an exact ...
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