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Dangerous Sleeper: Emotet explores new attack vectors
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In 2021, the network around Emotet was broken up. But that doesn't mean that Emotet has completely disappeared from the web. On the contrary: there are always signs that the group around Emotet is looking for new avenues of attack. Since its return, Emotet has appeared in several spam campaigns. Mealybug, the hacker group behind the botnet, has developed numerous new modules and revised existing ones. The masterminds behind Emotet learned a lot from the takedown two years ago and invested a lot of time in preventing their botnet from being discovered. Emotet's infrastructure is dead - the...

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AI in the SOC - the new measure of things
AI in SOC - the new measure of things

The SOC will also change massively through the use of AI. With an AI enhancement that distills the knowledge of a global "crowd" of SOC analysts from security workflows and then turns them into a kind of co-pilot. An assessment by Joshua Saxe, Chief Scientist and AI expert at Sophos. Today, there are two types of user-centric software products: products that use machine learning and automation to adapt to and achieve user goals, and products that are disruptive and require carefully memorized and repetitive interactions. Google Search, Siri and...

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Over 300 million ransomware attacks in just 6 months

The new throat year update of the SonicWall Cyber ​​Threat Report 2021 shows that over 2021 million ransomware attacks have already occurred in 300. That is more than in all of 2020. Since the beginning of the year, the numbers have increased particularly in the USA (185%) and Great Britain (144%). In the first half of 2021, the number of ransomware attacks skyrocketed and in just six months is already higher than in 2020 as a whole, as can be read in the half-yearly update for the SonicWall Cyber ​​Threat Report 2021 published today. SonicWall analyzed how cyber criminals ...

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DDoS attacks will continue to rise in 2021
DDoS attacks will continue to rise in 2021

An old friend will also become more and more dangerous in 2021: Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). Corresponding attacks are increasing in both number and complexity. Roman Borovits, Senior Systems Engineer at F5, evaluates current data, according to which the incidents are becoming increasingly violent and complex. The number of DDoS attacks rose by 2020 percent from January 2021 to March 55. Most (54%) used multiple attack vectors. This is shown by current data collected by the F5 Silverline Security Operations Center (SOC) and the F5 Security Incident Response Team (SIRT). Different DDoS variants ...

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Record number of security incidents around the world
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There has been a significant increase in cybersecurity incidents over the past year, according to the Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report. One reason could be the increase in homeworking. A comment from the 8com Cyber ​​Defense Center. The Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report recorded a record number of security incidents around the world for the past year. The recently published study clearly shows that cyber crime has increased massively during the corona pandemic. A total of 29.258 incidents from 83 participating institutions worldwide were investigated. 5.258 of these events were confirmed security breaches. Compared…

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