ON WEDNESDAY, AT about 12:15 pm ET, 1.35 terabits per second of traffic hit the developer platform GitHub all at once. It was the most powerful distributed denial of service attack recorded to date—and it used an increasingly popular DDoS method, no botnet required. GitHub briefly struggled with intermittent outages as a digital system assessed the situation. Within 10 minutes it had automatically called for help from its...
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BEC, or Business Email Compromise, is a contemporary twist on a staple scam. Often in the shadow of the more extravagant, media-friendly super-hacks or ransomware compromises, BEC is leading the line on both the number of attack victims and the direct losses encountered by businesses. Although not as en vogue as other ‘nouveau’ cybersecurity threats, if you are simply looking at direct business costs, BEC leaves almost...
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Cybercriminals are leveraging a recently patched critical Adobe Flash Player vulnerability in a massive spam campaign targeting unpatched computers. According to cybersecurity firm Morphisec, cybercriminals are blasting spam messages that urge recipients to click a link to download a Word document. And when a victim opens the document and enables macros, malware attempts to exploit an Adobe Flash Player bug (CVE-2018-4878) patched by Adobe earlier this month. Victims who fall...
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Security experts at Cisco Talos disclosed details of a remote code execution flaw that affects Adobe Acrobat Reader DC versions 2018.009.20050 and 2017.011.30070 and earlier. Security experts at Cisco Talos shared details of a remote code execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2018-4901, that affects Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. A remote attacker can exploit the vulnerability tricking the victim into opening a malicious file or visiting a specially crafted webpage....
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Bitdefender has released a free decrypter that helps victims of GandCrab ransomware infections recover files without paying the ransom. The decrypter is available for download via the NoMoreRansom project, of which Bitdefender is a member of. Romanian Police and Romania’s DIICOT (Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism) announced the decrypter’s launch in statements published on their sites, minutes ago. Europol is also expected to make a formal announcement later today....
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