Microsoft Warns of Surge in Cyber Attacks Targeting Internet-Exposed OT Devices Microsoft has emphasized the need for securing internet-exposed operational technology (OT) devices following a spate of cyber attacks targeting such environments since late 2023. “These repeated attacks against OT devices emphasize the crucial need to improve the security posture Read more…
Okta Warns of Unprecedented Surge in Proxy-Driven Credential Stuffing Attacks Identity and access management (IAM) services provider Okta has warned of a spike in the “frequency and scale” of credential stuffing attacks aimed at online services. These unprecedented attacks, observed over the last month, are said to be facilitated by Read more…
Cisco Warns of Global Surge in Brute-Force Attacks Targeting VPN and SSH Services Cisco is warning about a global surge in brute-force attacks targeting various devices, including Virtual Private Network (VPN) services, web application authentication interfaces, and SSH services, since at least March 18, 2024. “These attacks all appear to Read more…
PyPI Halts Sign-Ups Amid Surge of Malicious Package Uploads Targeting Developers The maintainers of the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository briefly suspended new user sign-ups following an influx of malicious projects uploaded as part of a typosquatting campaign. It said “new project creation and new user registration” was temporarily halted to mitigate Read more…
TeamCity Flaw Leads to Surge in Ransomware, Cryptomining, and RAT Attacks Multiple threat actors are exploiting the recently disclosed security flaws in JetBrains TeamCity software to deploy ransomware, cryptocurrency miners, Cobalt Strike beacons, and a Golang-based remote access trojan called Spark RAT. The attacks entail the exploitation of CVE-2024-27198 (CVSS score: 9.8) Read more…
DDoS Attacks on the Environmental Services Industry Surge by 61,839% in 2023 î ‚Jan 15, 2024î „NewsroomServer Security / Cyber Attack The environmental services industry witnessed an “unprecedented surge” in HTTP-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, accounting for half of all its HTTP traffic. This marks a 61,839% increase in DDoS attack traffic Read more…