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Mirai Common Attack Methods Remain Consistent, Effective
While relatively unchanged, the notorious IoT botnet still continues to drive DDoS.
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While relatively unchanged, the notorious IoT botnet still continues to drive DDoS.
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CISA urges small and midsized organizations as well as critical infrastructures to implement mitigations to shield from further attacks.
The Hacker News
A new attack method can be used to circumvent web application firewalls (WAFs) of various vendors and infiltrate systems, potentially enabling attackers to gain access to sensitive business and customer information. Web application firewalls are a key line of defense to help filter, monitor, and block HTTP(S) traffic to and from a web application, and safeguard against attacks such as cross-site
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The Swiss Army knife-like browser extension is heaven for attackers — and can be hell for enterprise users.
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TCP-based, DNS water-torture, and carpet-bombing attacks dominate the DDoS threat landscape, while Ireland, India, Taiwan, and Finland are battered by DDoS attacks resulting from the Russia/Ukraine war.
The Hacker News
Credential theft is clearly still a problem. Even after years of warnings, changing password requirements, and multiple forms of authentication, password stealing remains a top attack method used by cyber criminals. The latest report from the Ponemon Institute shares that 54% of security incidents were caused by credential theft, followed by ransomware and DDoS attacks. 59% of organizations
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With Microsoft taking steps to block Excel 4.0 (XLM or XL4) and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros by default across Office apps, malicious actors are responding by refining their new tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). "The use of VBA and XL4 Macros decreased approximately 66% from October 2021 through June 2022," Proofpoint said in a report shared with The Hacker News. In its
ZDNet Security
Log4j also became a top pick for exploitation after the discovery of a critical RCE flaw.
Bleeping Computer
Security controls can block a familiar attack method while missing quieter ways to achieve the same objective. Picus Security's Blue Report 2026 shows how prevention rates can vary dramatically by technique and why behavioral testing is needed to uncover those gaps. [...]
The Hacker News
Some weeks have one big security story. Others bring many smaller updates that are easy to miss but still matter. This week has plenty of them, covering cloud services, AI tools, malware, data breaches, scams, and new attack methods. The latest ThreatsDay Bulletin puts all of these short updates in one place, so you can quickly catch up on what happened, what changed, and what security teams