FBI Director Christopher Wray speaks to a group in Washington, D.C. The FBI recently reported that total U.S. losses from cybercrime topped $4.1 billion in 2020. Today’s columnist, Glenn Mulvaney of Clumio, says while ransomware has become a hot-button issue, companies also need to focus on viruses, DDoS attacks, cryptojacking, and securing the cloud.
Jetty has such wide use that the vulnerability is what one researcher described as “close to a digital nightmare,” especially on embedded devices in industrial control systems – which are often not patchable.
The situation offers one more example of the threats posed by remote employees, if companies don’t ensure proper security protocols are in place.
Two vulnerabilities discovered could lead to remote code execution, while another could lead to denial of service attacks.
Five Radware customers received extortion letters in December and January, threatening a DDoS attack if they did not pay the equivalent of $200,000.
Based on the malware features, the researchers said the attackers use the compromised systems for further attacks, spreading laterally across the victim company’s network, or launching attacks on outside targets while masquerading as the compromised company.
The attacker or bots can overwhelm the Citrix ADC Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) network throughput, potentially leading to outbound bandwidth exhaustion.
Much like hospitals and government, video game developers can’t afford to go dark, nor can they easily overcome exposure of their secret sauce. That makes them an attractive target.
The extortionists targeted companies with up to a 2 terabit a second distributed denial of service attack.
Billions of Internet of Things and Local Area Network devices that rely on the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol for discovery of and interaction with other devices are vulnerable to “CallStranger,” a bug that can be exploited to exfiltrate data, launch a denial of service attack or scan ports. The Windows 10 operating system,…
