Tag: Internet
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FBI warns seniors are being targeted in three-phase Phantom Hacker scams
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) says that the elderly are more at risk from falling victim to online fraud and internet scammers than ever before. First seen on fortra.com Jump to article: www.fortra.com/blog/fbi-warns-seniors-targeted-three-phase-phantom-hacker-scams
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Hijacked by RapperBot: Devices Exploited for Instant DDoS Attacks
A newly uncovered variant of the notorious RapperBot malware is covertly commandeering internet-connected devices”, particularly outdated network video recorders (NVRs)”, and transforming them into a powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) army in mere moments. Security researchers have detailed a sophisticated exploit chain that leverages zero-day vulnerabilities, outdated firmware, and alternative DNS infrastructures to orchestrate attacks exceeding…
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Hijacked by RapperBot: Devices Exploited for Instant DDoS Attacks
A newly uncovered variant of the notorious RapperBot malware is covertly commandeering internet-connected devices”, particularly outdated network video recorders (NVRs)”, and transforming them into a powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) army in mere moments. Security researchers have detailed a sophisticated exploit chain that leverages zero-day vulnerabilities, outdated firmware, and alternative DNS infrastructures to orchestrate attacks exceeding…
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Internet mapping and research outfit Censys reveals state-based abuse, harassment
‘Universities are being used to proxy offensive government operations, turning research access decisions political’ First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/09/03/censys_abuse_sigcomm_paper/
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Warning: Flaws in Copeland OT controllers can be leveraged by threat actors
Tags: access, authentication, ciso, control, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, group, identity, incident response, intelligence, Internet, network, penetration-testing, risk, service, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, zero-trustCSO. “Persons responsible for the management of OT devices are focused on production and reliability of service, not security. As a result, you frequently encounter OT devices that are insecure.”To ensure security, organizations have to move towards a zero trust architecture for deploying OT devices, Beggs said. That includes verifying user identity, enforcing multifactor authentication,…
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TDL 002 – Defending the DNS: How Quad9 Protects the Internet with John Todd
Tags: access, apple, attack, business, china, ciso, communications, control, country, crime, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, dns, email, encryption, firewall, google, ibm, india, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, jobs, law, malicious, malware, network, phishing, privacy, service, strategy, technology, threat, tool, zero-trustSummary The Defender’s Log episode features John Todd from Quad9, discussing their mission to protect the internet through secure DNS. Quad9, a non-profit launched in 2017 with founding partners Global Cyber Alliance, Packet Clearing House, and IBM, provides a free, global recursive DNS resolver that blocks malicious domains. Todd emphasizes that Quad9’s success is a…
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Cloudflare blocks largest recorded DDoS attack peaking at 11.5 Tbps
Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare said it recently blocked the largest recorded volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which peaked at 11.5 terabits per second (Tbps). First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cloudflare-blocks-record-breaking-115-tbps-ddos-attack/
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FCC investigation could derail its own IoT security certification program
Internet of Things device-makers are eager to participate, but the commission’s concerns about its lead administrator have halted progress of the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark program. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/fcc-cyber-trust-mark-ul-investigation-delay/758507/
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FCC investigation could derail its own IoT security certification program
Internet of Things device-makers are eager to participate, but the commission’s concerns about its lead administrator have halted progress of the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark program. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/fcc-cyber-trust-mark-ul-investigation-delay/758507/
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Cloudfrlare Internet Disruptions Report – Die Zahl der staatlichen Internetabschaltungen steigt
Tags: InternetFirst seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/die-zahl-der-staatlichen-internetabschaltungen-steigt-a-c8f53ce37a54113daddc3dbf32ad1ba3/
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FreePBX: CVE-2025-57819 (CVSS 10.0); 6620 ungepatchte Telefonanlagen
In Telefonanlagen mit der Software FreePBX gibt es die Schwachstelle CVE-2025-57819 mit einem CVSS Index von 10.0. Da brennt bildlich gesprochen die Hütte, und die Anlagen müssten unverzüglich gepatcht werden. Die Sicherheitsforscher von The Shadowserver Foundation haben das Internet gescannt … First seen on borncity.com Jump to article: www.borncity.com/blog/2025/09/01/freepbx-cve-2025-57819-cvss-10-0-6620-ungepatchte-telefonanlagen/
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Whitepaper: Acht Tipps für den Schutz vor Cyberangriffen
Die Zahl und Heftigkeit der Attacken auf Unternehmen über das Internet steigen ständig. Herkömmliche Prozesse zur Wiederherstellung von Daten und Systemen funktionieren oft nicht mehr, da Backups oder Sicherheitsanwendungen zerstört sind. Zum Schutz vor solchen existenzgefährdenden Cyberangriffen hat James Blake, VP of Cyber Resiliency Strategy bei Cohesity Best Practices zusammengestellt. Unternehmen sollten folgende Tipps beherzigen:……
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Chinese hacking group Salt Typhoon expansion prompts multinational advisory
Tags: advisory, attack, authentication, breach, china, cisco, communications, container, corporate, country, cyber, data, exploit, firmware, flaw, government, group, hacking, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, ivanti, malware, military, monitoring, network, password, router, service, software, technology, threat, update, vulnerability, zero-dayIvanti, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco flaws exploited: Salt Typhoon has been active since at least 2021, targeting critical infrastructure in telecom, transportation, government, and military bodies around the globe. Notably, a “cluster of activity” has been observed in the UK, according to the country’s National Cyber Security Centre.The group has had “considerable success” with “n-days,”…
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Experts warn of actively exploited FreePBX zero-day
Sangoma warns of an actively exploited FreePBX zero-day affecting systems with publicly exposed admin control panels. The Sangoma FreePBX Security Team addressed an actively exploited FreePBX zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-57819 (CVSS score of 10.0), impacting systems with an internet-facing administrator control panel (ACP). FreePBXis an open-source telephony software platform that provides a web-based graphical…
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SK Telecom walloped with $97M fine after schoolkid security blunders let attackers run riot
Regulator points to lack of ‘basic access controls’ between internet-facing systems, internal network First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/08/28/sk_telecom_regulator_fine/
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Netherlands Confirms China’s Salt Typhoon Targeted Small Dutch Telcos
Salt Typhoon’s primary Dutch targets were small internet service providers and hosting providers First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/china-salt-typhoon-dutch-telcos/
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FreePBX Servers Hit by 0-Day Exploit, Disable Internet Access Advised
Tags: access, control, cyber, data-breach, endpoint, exploit, Internet, network, remote-code-execution, vulnerability, zero-dayFreePBX administrators worldwide have been urged to immediately disable public internet access to their systems after a critical 0-day vulnerability was discovered in the commercial Endpoint Manager module. The Sangoma FreePBX Security Team confirmed that attacker-controlled exploit code can gain unauthenticated remote code execution on systems with the Administrator Control Panel exposed to hostile networks,…
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New Research and PoC Reveal Security Risks in LLM-Based Coding
A recent investigation has uncovered that relying solely on large language models (LLMs) to generate application code can introduce critical security vulnerabilities, according to a detailed blog post published on August 22, 2025. The research underscores that LLMs, which are trained on broad internet data”, much of it insecure example code”, often replicate unsafe patterns…
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Emulating the Expedited Warlock Ransomware
AttackIQ has released a new attack graph that emulates the behaviors exhibited by Warlock ransomware, which emerged in June 2025. Beginning in July, Warlock operators have primarily targeted internet-exposed, unpatched on-premises Microsoft SharePoint servers, exploiting a set of recently disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities, specifically CVE-2025-49704, CVE-2025-49706, CVE-2025-53770, and CVE-2025-53771, collectively referred to as the “ToolShell” exploit…
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TDL001 – Cybersecurity Explained: Privacy, Threats, and the Future – Chester Wisniewski
Tags: access, ai, attack, backdoor, breach, business, ciso, computer, country, crime, crimes, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data-breach, defense, detection, edr, email, finance, firewall, gartner, government, guide, hacker, hacking, Hardware, infosec, Internet, jobs, linkedin, mail, malicious, microsoft, military, monitoring, network, password, phishing, phone, privacy, programming, ransomware, risk, russia, scam, skills, software, sophos, spam, sql, strategy, switch, technology, threat, update, virus, vulnerability, wifi, windowsSummary “The Defenders Log” Episode 1 features host David Redekop and guest Chet Wisniewski discussing the dynamic world of cybersecurity. Wisniewski, with decades of experience, traces his journey from early BBS and phone network exploration to becoming a cybersecurity expert. They delve into the evolution of hacking, the emergence of profitable cybercrime like email spam,…
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300k+ Plex Media Server instances still vulnerable to attack via CVE-2025-34158
Over 300,000 internet-facing Plex Media Server instances are still vulnerable to attack via CVE-2025-34158, a critical vulnerability for which Plex has issued a fix for … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/08/27/plex-media-server-cve-2025-34158-attack/
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Kreditkartenbetrug im Internet: Zunahme der Bedrohung für Verbraucher
Tags: InternetFirst seen on datensicherheit.de Jump to article: www.datensicherheit.de/kreditkarten-betrug-internet-zunahme-bedrohung-verbraucher
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TDL003 – Breaking Barriers: IPv6 Adoption and DNS Transformation with Tommy Jensen
Tags: access, ai, apple, attack, backup, banking, browser, business, ceo, chrome, ciso, compliance, computer, computing, control, country, credentials, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, ddos, dns, encryption, endpoint, google, government, group, international, Internet, jobs, law, microsoft, mobile, network, phishing, phone, privacy, programming, radius, risk, service, smishing, strategy, switch, technology, threat, update, vpn, windows, zero-trustSummary This episode of the Defender’s Log features special guest Tommy Jensen, an internet technologist specializing in IPv6, Zero Trust, and standards. Jensen’s career path, from an AppleCare contractor to a key figure in advancing internet technologies, is explored. The discussion highlights the critical importance and challenges of migrating to IPv6 and the necessity of…
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Rache am Arbeitgeber bringt Entwickler vier Jahre in den Knast
Welche Konsequenzen es haben kann, wenn technisch versierte IT-Fachkräfte zum Innentäter werden, hat die Eaton Corporation am eigenen Leib erfahren.Wenn unzufriedene Mitarbeitende sich digital an ihrem Arbeitgeber vergehen, kann das für beide Seiten weitreichende Konsequenzen haben insbesondere, wenn der Mitarbeitende ein Softwareentwickler ist. So ist es dem US-amerikanischen Elektrokonzern Eaton Corporation ergangen, der 2018 im…
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Security researcher maps hundreds of TeslaMate servers spilling Tesla vehicle data
A security researcher mapped TeslaMate servers that are publicly exposed to the internet, including sensitive Tesla vehicle data, such as their locations. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2025/08/26/security-researcher-maps-hundreds-of-teslamate-servers-spilling-tesla-vehicle-data/
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Security researcher maps hundreds of TeslaMate servers spilling Tesla vehicle data
A security researcher mapped TeslaMate servers that are publicly exposed to the internet, including sensitive Tesla vehicle data, such as their locations. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2025/08/26/security-researcher-maps-hundreds-of-teslamate-servers-spilling-tesla-vehicle-data/