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By Juha Saarinen on Feb 10, 2021 6:53AM Flaws in TCP/IP stack expected to be exploited. Microsoft has issued an urgent security alert advising customers to apply patches for vulnerabilities in the Windows transmission control/internet protocol (TCP/IP) networking stack, as its security researchers expect the flaws to be exploited soon. Of the three vulnerabilities, the CVE-2021-24086 flaw is easy to exploit for denial of service attacks that cause a STO...

More than 100 Financial Services Firms Hit with DDoS Extortion Attacks RESTON, Va., Feb. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- FS-ISAC, the only global cyber intelligence sharing community solely focused on financial services, announced today that last year, more than 100 financial services firms were targets of a wave of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) extortion attacks conducted by the same threat actor. The criminals sent extortion notes threatening to disrupt the firms websites and digital services...

Get Permission Researchers with NetScouts Atlas Security Engineering and Response Team are warning that attackers are abusing certain versions of the Plex media server app to strengthen and amplify various DDoS attacks. The NetScout researchers believe that about 27,000 Plex media servers are vulnerable to the type of DDoS amplification attacks described in a new report. The Plex media server application works with Windows, Linux and macOS operating systems and normally lets users share video ...

Get Permission Researchers with NetScouts Atlas Security Engineering and Response Team are warning that attackers are abusing certain versions of the Plex media server app to strengthen and amplify various DDoS attacks. The NetScout researchers believe that about 27,000 Plex media servers are vulnerable to the type of DDoS amplification attacks described in a new report. The Plex media server application works with Windows, Linux and macOS operating systems and normally lets users share video ...

The cyber incident notification posted to Palfingers website The Austrian construction equipment manufacturing firm Palfinger AG reports being hit with a cyberattack that has knocked the majority of its worldwide IT infrastructure offline. "Currently, the Palfinger AG and the majority of its sites are the target of an ongoing global cyberattack with massive effects on its IT infrastructure," states a notification posted to the companys U.S. website on Monday. Palfinger says it does not yet kn...

Get Permission Threat actors behind a distributed denial-of-service campaign targeted the same set of victims again after the organizations failed to pay the initial ransom, a new report by security firm Radware finds. The report notes the victims were first hit by the unidentified group in August or September 2020. Then, when the victims failed to pay the initial ransom demand, they were sent additional ransom extortion emails in December 2020 and January, with the threat actors demanding be...

The FreakOut botnet is targeting Linux-based systems that include the TerraMaster operating system, which manages TerraMaster network-attached storage servers; the Zend framework, designed to build web application services using PHP; and Liferay Portal, a web application platform that enables users to create portals and websites. Each of these open-source systems has a vulnerability that the FreakOut botnet attempts to exploit, the researchers say. In the TerraMaster OS, the remote code executi...

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