As per the Prolexic reports,DDoS attacks have increased to 26.09% compared to Q4 2012, 17.42% increase in application layer attacks 28.97% increase in infrastructure layer ( Layer 3 & 4) attacks,28.975 decrease in average attack duration9 i,e 22.88 vs 32.21 hours) Increased mobile devices usage have increased the number of malacious apps on the internet, […]
The Solutionary Security Engineering Research Team (SERT) Threat Intelligence Report for Q4 2013 contains research focused on the distribution and analysis of malware. The report highlights that Unites States is the biggest hoster of malware in the world , Godaddy.com , Google and Amazon cloud leading the list of infections. Report highlights the following points : […]
A new type of DDoS ( Distributed Denial of Service) attack has taken down several servers last weekend. Popular games servers for Steam, Origin, Battle.net, and League of Legends were victim of the attack The new type of DDoS abuses the Network Time Protocol (NTP), which keeps computers’ clocks synced up to Coordinated Universal Time, […]
Cisco users are vulnerable to a critical vulnerability that could allow attackers to gain root access to the equipment. The exploit is already in the wild and software update has not been released so far as per Cisco. A vulnerability in the Cisco WAP4410N Wireless-N Access Point, Cisco WRVS4400N Wireless-N Gigabit Security Router, and the Cisco […]
With the rise of Bitcoin media publicity, fraudsters are finding new ways to get their share of piece of it. Recently mass targeted scam/phishing email is being delivered to users email addresses whose might have been scraped from popular Bitcoin sites or stolen in security breaches: As per Logrhythm security researchers, […]
Its time for one more company Neiman Marcus, victim of stolen data. Recently Brian Krebs reported that the database breach tok place mid of December but the full impact of the hack is unknown at the moment. Its appears that Neiman Marcus was targeted the same time as Target. ” Neiman Marcus acknowledged today that it is working […]
Microsoft twitter handle got hacked again by the Syrian Electronic Arm yesterday. While Microsoft is still recovering from its past weeks hack , they are thrown under the bus with a new hack again. Its pity that Microsoft being the leader in digital crime prevention has not taken any steps after the previous hack to […] As the world moved towards 64 bit operating systems including our mobile phones so as zesus. As per the reports from securelist, they have discovered a 64 bit Zeus hidden inside a 32 bit version. “The initial 32-bit sample injects malicious code into target processes. If the target process belongs to a 64-bit application, ZeuS […] NETRA means eye in “Hindi” language, will be soon launched by the Indian government for monitoring the internet traffic entering and leaving the country. NETRA will be Indian Intelligence for internet surveillance equivalent to PRISM in the US or GCHQ in the UK. Indian Center of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), a lab branched under Department of […] For the last couple of days , a good percentage of users visiting yahoo.com were infected by driveby malware. Malacious ads were served from ads.yahoo.com and the first incident was report on December 30th 2013 and Yahoo has not been able to taken them down from their own network. So how does all […]