Report: Carpet bomb DDoS attacks rise 300% in 2022
A new report released by Corero Network Security reveals carpet bomb distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks increased 300% in 2022.
Day: May 17, 2023
Hackers Modified Cobalt Strike Capabilities to Attack macOS Users
Geacon, a Cobalt Strike implementation written in Golang, is likely to attract the attention of threat actors looking for vulnerable macOS devices. Threat actors have been employing Cobalt Strike to breach Windows PCs for years, despite the infosec ind…
A Soviet Spy Saved Stalin, Churchill and FDR from a Nazi Assassination Plot
Gevork Vartanian was the Soviet intelligence officer from Armenia who discovered the Nazis’ plan to kill the Allied leadership in Tehran.
Americans looking overseas for abortion pills as U.S. laws tighten
A doctor in the Netherlands is helping women in the United States seek abortion pills and arranging for them to be shipped directly to their home. Haley Ott reports.
Hungary urges EU to redirect Ukraine aide
Hungary has blocked a new EU military aid tranche for Ukraine in the interest of spending the funds on other nations
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ServiceNow, Nvidia to bring generative AI to enterprise workflows
ServiceNow and Nvidia on Wednesday said that they were collaborating to build generative AI applications for different enterprise functions in an effort to optimize business processes and workflows.
ServiceNow will use data avail…
Chinese Media Say The US Navy And Chinese PLA Were Engaged In A ‘Dangerous Encounter’ Near Hong Kong In 2021
A Chinese military report says anti-submarine patrol aircraft such as the US Navy’s P-8A typically fly at low altitudes which can pose safety risks in the region. Photo: US Navy
SCMP: PLA reveals US-China military encounter off Hong Kong day bef…
Phishing attacks already using the .zip TLD
On May 3rd, Google Registry launched eight new top-level domains (TLDs) “for dads, grads and techies”, including a .zip TLD. While these new TLDs come with benefits such as automatic inclusion on the HSTS preload list, the launch of new TLDs has always presented cyber criminals with the opportunity to register domains in bad faith.
Parts of the security community, such as the SANS ISC, have already identified the potential for fraud via the potential conflation of a universally known file extension (.zip) with a TLD. TLDs overlapping with file extensions is not a new problem: .com is also an executable format, .pl represents both Poland and Perl scripts, and .sh represents Saint Helena and Unix shell scripts.
Earlier this week, we investigated existing registrations using the .zip TLD and confirmed that there is already evidence of fraudulent activity.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs anti-LGBTQ laws affecting gender-affirming care, bathroom use and drag shows
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis chose a Christian school as his setting for signing bills Wednesday that ban gender-affirming care for minors, restrict pronoun use in schools and force people to use the bathr…