During, this worldwide outbreak, the attackers have emerged with lots of phishing attacks, some of which can be easily detectable and some are even not detectable. There are some attackers who create wants to create a backdoor into your system and there are some who are just restricted to stealing your information between your communication to the server. If we see our records of doing attacks, the top names are always Chinese and Russian. The actors from these communities are heavily engaged in launching attacking around the world for more than a decade. Some big tech giants obviously have some amount of system guards present there that makes it a…
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REVOCATION OF CERTIFICATES EVADE TRUST FROM LEGAL SITES
While surfing website from modern web browsers like Chrome, Safari, Edge, in the top URL bar, you’ve definitely encountered a lock sign. This lock sign makes a good impression on your mind either it is a legal site or a phishing website. There are many chances that when the website shows you the warning “Your connection to this site is not private”, that website no longer exist in your good books. But what if a valid site gets a tag of insecure connection? Same thing has been happened with around 2000 websites out there on the internet, observed by researchers from Netcraft. On 11 July, Digicert(a Certificate Issuing Authority) revokes…
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THE SECOND LARGEST DDOS ATTACK DETECTED WITH 754 MILLION PPS
Some days before, Akamai recorded the largest DDOS record ever in the history which tried to target the largest European bank. Unfortunately, Akamai rescued it. Yesterday, Cloudflare releases a report in which it’s system detects a DDOS attack at a rate of 754 million packets per second. This attack was then regarded as the second highest and even dangerous DDOS attack after the case of Akamai. As stated in their report, this attack was part of an organized four day campaign starting on June 18 and ending on June 21 through which Cloudflare was successfully able to mitigate this DDOS attack. The team also said that the traffic was sent…
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CONTI RANSOMWARE, MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU THINK
The word that frighten us the most in this cyber world is Ransomware! All big enterprises try to protect themselves from this but bad actors are always a step ahead which give end results as data breach to the organization. There are lots of Ransomware groups which run affiliates in the underground. Some names for popular group out there are the Sodinokibi aka Revil, Avadddon, Maze, Thanos and more. These all ransomware operators are run by the professional experts behind them but due to their deeds they are being regarded as unethical or bad actors. So discussing about the groups, researchers from Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) (a unit…
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GAMING WEBSITE CAUGHT DELIVERING TROJANS
Have you ever been to a site which shows an advertisement stating that “This domain is up for sale.”? Answer must be Yes, everyone as visited such websites but by chance! Most probably, when you see such a website, you just exit from that URL and surf to another website. But some have other type of mind setup. We all know that how domain name plays an important role in SEO for your website. Infact, good domain name make the visitors come back to your website or sometime a domain name of yours might inspire someone. So, if you by chance reached a site which states that this domain is up…
