The attack generated one million requests per second (RPS), four times larger than any previous attack on the bank. Sberbank believes that new, highly skilled hackers are targeting major Russian resources.
Enlarge 1Password 1Password, a password manager used by millions of people and more than 100,000 businesses, said it detected suspicious activity on a company account provided by Okta, the identity and authentication service that disclosed a breach on Friday. “On September 29, we detected suspicious activity on our Okta instance that we use to manage […]
The time between a vulnerability being discovered and hackers exploiting it is narrower than ever – just 12 days. So it makes sense that organizations are starting to recognize the importance of not leaving long gaps between their scans, and the term “continuous vulnerability scanning” is becoming more popular. Hackers won’t wait for your next […]
Hackers have targeted more than a dozen oil, gas and defense firms in Eastern Europe with an updated version of the MATA backdoor framework, according to recent research. The MATA backdoor was previously attributed to the North Korean hacker group Lazarus. Researchers at the cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, who uncovered this campaign, did not directly link […]
Networking equipment manufacturer Juniper Networks on Thursday announced patches for more than 30 vulnerabilities in Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved, including nine high-severity flaws. The most severe of these issues is an incorrect default permissions bug that allows an unauthenticated attacker with local access to a vulnerable device to create a backdoor with root […]
Oct 11, 2023NewsroomWebsite Security / Hacking More than 17,000 WordPress websites have been compromised in the month of September 2023 with malware known as Balada Injector, nearly twice the number of detections in August. Of these, 9,000 of the websites are said to have been infiltrated using a recently disclosed security flaw in the tagDiv […]
Less than six months ago, Google announced that it was launching support for the password replacement known as “passkeys” for all personal accounts across its billions of users. Today, the company said it is going a step further and will make passkeys the default login setting for users. When you log in to your Google […]
More often than not, its our solemn duty on this site to keep you informed about the nature and tactics of dangerous, cunnning, and persistent cybercriminals. This is not one of those days. In fact, this is the oppposite of one of those days. This is about a passable spam email sent by a spammer […]
More than 120 countries faced cyberattacks over the last year, with Ukraine, Israel, South Korea and Taiwan topping the list of the most targeted countries, according to a new report from Microsoft. The findings are part of Microsoft’s Digital Defense Report 2023 — which used troves of the company’s data to track cybersecurity trends between […]