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Equifax data breach affected 2.4 million more consumers
The 2017 Equifax data breach has expanded again, with the company announcing last week that another 2.4 million U.S. consumers had their information stolen. Read more…
Massive Coin-Mining Attempt Targets Nearly Half a Million PCs
Microsoft has averted a massive and widespread campaign that would have seen tens of thousands of machines impacted. The software giant reported that on March 6, "Windows Defender AV blocked more than 80,000 instances of several sophisticated Trojans that exhibited advanced cross-process injection techniques, persistence mechanisms and evasion methods." Read more…
DDoS Record Broken Again as Memcached Attack Hits 1.7 Tbps
Days after a massive 1.35 Tbps DDoS attack against GitHub, an even larger attack reported at 1.7 Tbps by Netscout Arbor emerges to become the largest DDoS yet. Read more…
Code for massive 'Memcrashed' DDoS attack made public
You, too, can now attempt a record-setting denial-of-service attack, as the tools used to launch the attacks were publicly posted to GitHub this week. Proof-of-concept code by Twitter user @037 combined with a list of 17,000 IP addresses of vulnerable memcached servers allows anyone to send forged UDP packets to memcached servers obtained from the Shodan.io computer search engine. Read more…
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