KrebsOnSecurity last week was hit by a near record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that clocked in at more than 6.3 terabits of data per second (a terabit is one trillion bits of data). The brief attack appears to have been a test run for a massive new Internet of Things (IoT) botnet capable of launching…
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‘Ban These Chinese Routers NOW,’ Cries House Committee
Sino stoppage scheme: TP-Link in crosshairs, along with other brands. The post ‘Ban These Chinese Routers NOW,’ Cries House Committee appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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CloudFlare detected (and blocked) the biggest DDoS attack on record
Web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare says it detected the biggest Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack ever recorded, a 5.6 terabits per second (Tbps) attack directed at an internet service provider (ISP) in Eastern Asia. Despite the staggering volume of the attack, Cloudflare successfully managed and mitigated it without human intervention. The company said in research…
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Allstate Violates Drivers’ Privacy, Texas AG Alleges
Don’t Mess With Texas Privacy: “We will hold all these companies accountable,” rants state attorney general Ken Paxton (pictured). The post Allstate Violates Drivers’ Privacy, Texas AG Alleges appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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Insecure Medical Devices — Illumina DNA Sequencer Illuminates Risks
IEI-IEI, Oh: Running an obsolete OS, on obsolete hardware, configured with obsolete settings. The post Insecure Medical Devices — Illumina DNA Sequencer Illuminates Risks appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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U.S. sanctions take aim at Chinese company said to aid hackers’ massive botnet
The U.S. government on Friday sanctioned a Chinese company that Western nations had connected to a Beijing-sponsored hacking group’s botnet, which had compromised hundreds of thousands of devices before a joint takedown operation last year. Flax Typhoon hackers made use of infrastructure at Integrity Technology Group to exploit victims, according to the Treasury Department’s Office…
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Thousands of industrial routers vulnerable to command injection flaw
Thousands of industrial routers from a Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturer are vulnerable to a post-authentication vulnerability, with indications it is already being exploited in the wild to infect devices with Mirai malware. On Dec. 27, VulnCheck detailed the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-12856, wherein an attacker can leverage default credentials in Four-Faith F3x24 and F3x36 routers…