Imperva Thwarts 2.5 Million RPS Ransom DDoS Extortion Attacks

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Cybersecurity company Imperva on Friday said it recently mitigated a ransom distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeting an unnamed website that peaked at 2.5 million requests per second (RPS). “While ransom …

Russia Releases List of IPs, Domains Attacking Its Infrastructure with DDoS Attacks

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As the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict continues to escalate, the Russian government on Thursday released a massive list containing 17,576 IP addresses and 166 domains that it said are behind a series of …

Critical Patches Issued for Cisco Expressway Series, TelePresence VCS Products

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Cisco this week shipped patches to address a new round of critical security vulnerabilities affecting Expressway Series and Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server (VCS) that could be exploited by an …

Researchers Demonstrate New Side-Channel Attack on Homomorphic Encryption

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A group of academics from the North Carolina State University and Dokuz Eylul University have demonstrated what they say is the “first side-channel attack” on homomorphic encryption that could be …

Hackers Try to Target European Officials to Get Info on Ukrainian Refugees, Supplies

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Details of a new nation-state sponsored phishing campaign have been uncovered setting its sights on European governmental entities in what’s seen as an attempt to obtain intelligence on refugee and …

Critical Bugs Reported in Popular Open Source PJSIP SIP and Media Stack

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As many as five security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the PJSIP open-source multimedia communication library that could be abused by an attacker to trigger arbitrary code execution and denial-of-service …

LIVE Webinar: Key Lessons Learned from Major Cyberattacks in 2021 and What to Expect in 2022

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With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to impact, and perhaps permanently changing, how we work, cybercriminals again leveraged the distraction in new waves of cyberattacks. Over the course of 2021 we …

Hackers Begin Weaponizing TCP Middlebox Reflection for Amplified DDoS Attacks

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Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks leveraging a new amplification technique called TCP Middlebox Reflection have been detected for the first time in the wild, six months after the novel attack mechanism …