Threat intelligence – Securitydive

NETSCOUT REPORTS DDOS ATTACKS TARGETING CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PLAY A DOMINANT ROLE IN GEOPOLITICAL CONFLICTS

admin2 weeks ago05 mins

DDoS attacks are precision-guided digital weapons as DDoS-for-hire services, AI and powerful botnets drive onslaught of attacks Threat Intelligence Report, revealing how Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have become a dominant means of waging cyberwarfare linked to sociopolitical events such as elections, civil protests, and policy disputes. The findings show how attackers exploit moments…

Microsoft Launches 6 new Agentic AI solutions for Cyber-security

admin3 weeks ago05 mins

Microsoft has expanded its AI-driven Security Copilot with six proprietary AI agents to help security teams. The company is also working with partners to add five more third-party agents into the mix. The security agents will be available for preview next month. They are designed to autonomously triage and process phishing alerts, data loss alerts, prioritize critical incidents,…

NETSCOUT LEVERAGES AI/ML TO GUARD CRITICAL IT INFRASTRUCTURE & MINIMIZE BUSINESS RISK

admin4 months ago4 months ago05 mins

NETSCOUT announced updates to its industry-leading Arbor Edge Defense (AED) and Arbor Enterprise Manager (AEM) products as part of its Adaptive DDoS Protection Solution to combat AI-enabled DDoS threats and protect critical IT infrastructure. NETSCOUT’s DDoS Threat Intelligence Report noted that application-layer and volumetric attacks have increased by over 43% and 30%, respectively. DDoS-for-hire services have…

Cybersecurity researchers of CloudSEK uncover rise in Investment scams on Social media

admin10 months ago03 mins

Investment scams primarily operate through social media and messaging platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram. CloudSEK found a surge in malicious content on these platforms — over 29,000 fraudulent ads on Facebook and a 81,000 fake investment groups on WhatsApp. The report covers an in-depth report exposing a troubling rise in investment scams targeting individuals in…

U.S. Court Orders NSO Group to Hand Over Pegasus Spyware Code to WhatsApp

admin1 year ago04 mins

A U.S. judge has ordered NSO Group to hand over its source code for Pegasus and other remote access trojans to Meta as part of the social media giant’s on-going litigation against the Israeli spyware vendor. The decision marks a major legal victory for Meta, which filed the lawsuit in October 2019 for using its infrastructure to distribute the spyware to approximately…

Sophos Introduced DNS Protection Program to run Through January 2024

admin1 year ago06 mins

Sophos has started the early access program (EAP) for Sophos DNS Protection for networks. This new cloud-based service is part of our growing suite of Secure Access Service Edge products and services, expanding upon what we started with Sophos ZTNA and Sophos SD-WAN Orchestration. Enhanced internet and web security Sophos DNS Protection adds another layer…