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By Waqas The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) confirmed seizing three domains used by cybercriminals to sell stolen personal data… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: FBI Seizes WeLeakInfo, IPStress and OVH-Booter Cybercrime Portals

Melissa Bischoping, security researcher with Tanium and Infosec Insiders columnist, urges firms to consider the upstream and downstream impact of "triple extortion" ransomware attacks.

Speaking at WithSecure’s annual conference, Mikko Hyppönen discussed the threat landscape between the two nations

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the seizure of three domains used by cybercriminals to trade stolen personal information and facilitate distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks for hire. This includes weleakinfo[.]to, ipstress[.]in, and ovh-booter[.]com, the former of which allowed its users to traffic hacked personal data and offered a searchable database

WeLeakInfo.to and two related domains let users search data stolen in more than 10,000 different breaches.

We break down three ways DNS filtering can help save your business from cyberattacks. The post 3 ways DNS filtering can save SMBs from cyberattacks appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

EnemyBot DDoS botnet is rapidly weaponizing security bugs disclosed in CMS systems like WordPress plug-ins, Android devices, commercial Web servers, and other enterprise applications.

New research finds a rise in TCP acknowledgement (ACK) DDoS attacks, which rely on a smaller amount of traffic to disrupt targets.

New web targets for the discerning hacker

A nascent Linux-based botnet named Enemybot has expanded its capabilities to include recently disclosed security vulnerabilities in its arsenal to target web servers, Android devices, and content management systems (CMS). "The malware is rapidly adopting one-day vulnerabilities as part of its exploitation capabilities," AT&T Alien Labs said in a technical write-up published last week. "Services