Category: Verizon
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Defenders fall behind, as AI rewrites the rules of a data breach
Defenders fall behind, as AI rewrites the rules of a data breach For almost 20 years, stolen credentials have been the most common route for attackers into organizations, according to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). But that’s no longer the case. Read more in my article on the Fortra blog. Graham Cluley Go…
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DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS
DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS The world’s largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices hosted on U.S. Internet providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon, new evidence suggests. Experts say the heavy concentration of infected devices at U.S. providers is complicating…
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Hacker in Snowflake Extortions May Be a U.S. Soldier
Hacker in Snowflake Extortions May Be a U.S. Soldier Two men have been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting dozens of companies that used the cloud data storage company Snowflake, but a third suspect — a prolific hacker known as Kiberphant0m — remains at large and continues to publicly extort victims. However, this…