- Thailand: House of Representatives’ Website Hacked, Cyber Attack Investigation Underway
October 16, 2023
The House of Representatives’ website fell victim to a cyber attack on Sunday, October 15, 2023. The hackers, who go by the name 3MUSKETEERZ, managed to breach the website’s security and display a picture of a troll in the photo journal section. Additionally, the perpetrators altered the press releases and committee schedules featured on the site. ...
- Understanding DNS Tunneling Traffic in the Wild
October 13, 2023
Palo Alto Unit 42 researchers present a study on why and how domain name system (DNS) tunneling techniques are used in the wild. Motivated by their findings, they present a system to automatically attribute tunneling domains to tools and campaigns. Attackers adopt DNS tunneling techniques to bypass security policies in enterprise networks because most enterprises ...
- Equifax fined £11 million by financial watchdog over 2017 cyber attack
October 13, 2023
The UK’s financial watchdog has fined Equifax £11 million for its role in one of the largest cyber attacks, which affected more than 13 million British consumers in 2017. The credit rating giant failed to keep its customers safe during an “entirely preventable” cybersecurity breach, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said. Read more… Source: Yahoo Newss
- Cyber attack targets Medical Aid for Palestinians’ website amid Israel-Hamas conflict
October 13, 2023
In the midst of the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, the Medical Aid for Palestinians organisation has reported a cyber attack on their website, which has disrupted their relief efforts for Gaza. They have also issued a warning that their website may go offline due to these disruptions. Taking to X (formerly Twitter), they posted ...
- Akira ransomware overview
October 12, 2023
Akira is a relatively new ransomware variant with Windows and Linux versions that came out in April 2023. Like many attackers, the gang behind this variant only uses the ransomware to encrypt files after first breaking into a network and stealing data. This group also employs a double extortion tactic, demanding a ransom from victims ...
- India’s Bank of Baroda expose worsens: Agents steal money from accounts
October 12, 2023
India’s Bank of Baroda made it simple and easy for its agents to steal money from the accounts of its customers. And some of them did steal 2.2 million rupees ($27,000) from 362 customers, internal audit reports and records of the bank have revealed. The audits come after an expose by The Reporters’ Collective (TRC) and ...
- Automatic disruption of human-operated attacks through containment of compromised user accounts
October 11, 2023
Based on incidents analyzed by Microsoft, it can take only a single hop from the attacker’s initial access vector to compromise domain admin-level accounts. For instance, an attacker can target an over-privileged service account configured in an outdated and vulnerable internet-facing server. Highly privileged user accounts are arguably the most important assets for attackers. Compromised domain ...
- Israelis Form Citizen Cyber Brigades Amid Mounting Digital Attacks
October 11, 2023
Israel’s large cybersecurity base is mobilizing to protect the country’s digital borders from hackers in the wake of a cross-border attack over the weekend that left more than 1,200 people dead and 100 more taken hostage. Members of the country’s large technology community formed the all-volunteer Israel Tech Guard to search for hostages and missing people ...
- Assessed Cyber Structure and Alignments of North Korea in 2023
October 10, 2023
Historically Mandiant has made assessments on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) cyber program based on Mandiant responses to intrusions, defector accounts, and OSINT reporting, in conjunction with government disclosures of DPRK units and motivation information. These assessments were generalizations and as new activity, such as cryptocurrency-focused units, emerged it blended the efforts from DPRK ...
- How it works: The novel HTTP/2 ‘Rapid Reset’ DDoS attack
October 10, 2023
A number of Google services and Cloud customers have been targeted with a novel HTTP/2-based DDoS attack which peaked in August. These attacks were significantly larger than any previously-reported Layer 7 attacks, with the largest attack surpassing 398 million requests per second. The attacks were largely stopped at the edge of our network by Google’s ...