The number of victims affected by a mass-ransomware attack, caused by a bug in a popular data transfer tool used by businesses around the world, continues to grow as another organization tells TechCrunch that it was also hacked.
The City of Toronto told TechCrunch in a revised statement on March 23: “Today, the City of Toronto has confirmed that unauthorized access to City data did occur through a third party vendor. The access is limited to files that were unable to be processed through the third party secure file transfer system.”
During Q4 2022, WithSecure™ detected and responded to a cyber attack conducted by a threat actor that WithSecure™ have attributed with high confidence to an intrusion set referred to as Lazarus Group. Attribution with high confidence was based off of overlapping techniques tactics and procedures as well as an operational security mistake by the threat actor. Amongst technical indications, the incident observed by WithSecure™ also contains characteristics of recent campaigns attributed to Lazarus Group by other researchers.
On June 27, 2022, Imperva mitigated a single attack with over 25.3 billion requests, setting a new record for Imperva’s application DDoS mitigation solution.
While attacks with over one million requests per second (RPS) aren’t new, we’ve previously only seen them last for several seconds to a few minutes. On June 27, Imperva successfully mitigated a strong attack that lasted more than four hours and peaked at 3.9 million RPS.
A serious vulnerability affecting the eCos SDK made by Taiwanese semiconductor company Realtek could expose the networking devices of many vendors to remote attacks.
Last week, Cloudflare automatically detected and mitigated a 26 million request per second DDoS attack — the largest HTTPS DDoS attack on record.