Tag: Internet
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Iran’s government says it shut down internet to protect against cyberattacks
The government cited the recent hacks on Bank Sepah and cryptocurrency exchange Nobite as reasons to shut down internet access to virtually all Iranians. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2025/06/20/irans-government-says-it-shut-down-internet-to-protect-against-cyberattacks/
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Massive DDoS Attack Hits 7.3 Tbps Delivering 37.4 Terabytes in 45 Seconds
The internet witnessed a new record in cyberattacks last month as Cloudflare, blocked the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded. The attack peaked at an astonishing 7.3 terabits per second (Tbps), overwhelming its target with 37.4 terabytes of data in just 45 seconds. The attack, detected in mid-May 2025, targeted an unnamed hosting provider…
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Massive 7.3 Tbps DDoS Attack Delivers 37.4 TB in 45 Seconds, Targeting Hosting Provider
Cloudflare on Thursday said it autonomously blocked the largest ever distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded, which hit a peak of 7.3 terabits per second (Tbps).The attack, which was detected in mid-May 2025, targeted an unnamed hosting provider.”Hosting providers and critical Internet infrastructure have increasingly become targets of DDoS attacks,” Cloudflare’s Omer First seen on…
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16 Billion Passwords Stolen From 320 Million+ Computers Leaked Online
Tags: apple, breach, computer, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, github, google, government, identity, Internet, leak, login, password, risk, serviceA staggering 16 billion login credentials, usernames, and passwords have been exposed in what cybersecurity experts are calling the largest data breach in internet history. The leak, which impacts major platforms including Apple, Facebook, Google, Instagram, Telegram, GitHub, and even government services, has put billions of online accounts at unprecedented risk of account takeover, identity…
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Iran experienced a near-total national internet blackout
Iran experienced a near-total internet blackout on Wednesday as tensions with Israel escalated into the first week of conflict. Global internet monitor NetBlocks reported almost near-total Internet disruptions in Iran as tensions with Israel escalated into the first week of conflict. However, the exact cause behind the collapse of Iran’s internet remains unclear. While the…
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Polizei greift durch: Teenager online für Auftragsmorde rekrutiert
Tags: InternetStrafverfolger haben mehrere Personen verhaftet, die über das Internet Mordaufträge an Minderjährige vergeben haben sollen – für schnelles Geld. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/polizei-greift-durch-teenager-online-fuer-auftragsmorde-rekrutiert-2506-197284.html
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Fast 800 illegale Betrugs-Websites beschlagnahmt
Ermittlern ist es gelungen, sämtliche Online-Betrugsseiten abzuschalten.Baden-württembergische Ermittlungsbehörden haben fast 800 illegale Websites beschlagnahmt. Das Cybercrime-Zentrum bei der Generalstaatsanwaltschaft Karlsruhe und das Landeskriminalamt (LKA) Baden-Württemberg arbeiteten dafür mit der europäischen Polizeibehörde Europol und bulgarischen Strafverfolgungsbehörden zusammen. “Die beschlagnahmten Domains wurden auf eine vom Landeskriminalamt Baden-Württemberg gehostete Beschlagnahmeseite umgeleitet, und können nun nicht mehr zur Begehung von…
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Tausende Überwachungssysteme weltweit ungeschützt im Netz auch in Deutschland
Einmal eingerichtet, laufen viele Überwachungskameras still im Hintergrund oft unbeachtet, manchmal ungeschützt. Weltweit sind laut aktuellen Recherchen rund 40.000 Geräte offen im Internet zugänglich, darunter rund 1.000 allein in Deutschland. Die Kameras liefern nicht nur Livebilder an Unbefugte, sondern können auch zum Einfallstor für Cyberangriffe werden. First seen on itsicherheit-online.com Jump to article: www.itsicherheit-online.com/news/security-management/tausende-ueberwachungssysteme-weltweit-ungeschuetzt-im-netz-auch-in-deutschland/
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Iran Slows Internet to Prevent Cyber Attacks Amid Escalating Regional Conflict
Iran has throttled internet access in the country in a purported attempt to hamper Israel’s ability to conduct covert cyber operations, days after the latter launched an unprecedented attack on the country, escalating geopolitical tensions in the region.Fatemeh Mohajerani, the spokesperson of the Iranian Government, and the Iranian Cyber Police, FATA, said the internet slowdown…
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Researchers unearth keyloggers on Outlook login pages
Unknown threat actors have compromised internet-accessible Microsoft Exchange Servers of government organizations and companies around the world, and have injected the … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/06/17/researchers-unearth-keyloggers-on-outlook-login-pages/
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Hackers Manipulate Search Engines to Push Malicious Sites
A new wave of cybercrime is exploiting the very backbone of internet trust: search engines. Recent research by Netcraft has exposed a sophisticated and organized SEO poisoning operation, where hackers manipulate search engine algorithms to push malicious websites to the top of search results. At the heart of this campaign is a platform known as…
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Cyberbedrohung für Internet-User weiter auf Rekordhoch
Laut einer Studie war rund ein Drittel der Internet-Anwender in den vergangenen zwölf Monaten von einem Phishing-Angriff betroffen.Internet-Nutzer in Deutschland sind stärker als je zuvor von Cyberangriffen und Desinformationskampagnen bedroht. Nach einer Studie der Initiative “Deutschland sicher im Netz” (DsiN) hat allein gut ein Drittel der Anwender (33,5 Prozent) in den vergangenen zwölf Monaten einen…
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Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Schwachstelle CVE-2025-4123 in Grafana
In der Open-Source-Software Grafana wurde die Tage eine Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Schwachstelle CVE-2025-4123 öffentlich. Es ist ein kritischer offener Redirect-Fehler in Grafana, der zur Übernahme von Konten führen könnte. Updaten ist angesagt, aber Tausende Grafana-Instanzen sind per Internet erreichbar. Grafana … First seen on borncity.com Jump to article: www.borncity.com/blog/2025/06/17/cross-site-scripting-xss-schwachstelle-cve-2025-4123-in-grafana/
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Zyxel Devices Under Attack as Hackers Exploit UDP Port RCE Flaw
Tags: attack, control, cve, cyber, cyberattack, exploit, firewall, flaw, hacker, Internet, rce, remote-code-execution, vpn, vulnerability, zyxelA sudden and highly coordinated wave of cyberattacks has struck Zyxel firewall and VPN devices worldwide, as hackers exploit a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-28771. The attacks, observed on June 16, 2025, leveraged UDP port 500″, the Internet Key Exchange (IKE) packet decoder”, to remotely inject system commands and potentially seize…
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Phishing nach wie vor die häufigste Form der Internet-Kriminalität in den USA
First seen on datensicherheit.de Jump to article: www.datensicherheit.de/phishing-haeufigste-form-internet-kriminalitaet-usa
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Vandals cut fiber-optic lines, causing outage for Spectrum Internet subscribers
The soaring price of copper makes networks tempting targets for thieves. First seen on arstechnica.com Jump to article: arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/vandals-cut-fiber-optic-lines-causing-outage-for-spectrum-internet-subscribers/
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Exposure Management Is the Future of Proactive Security
Tags: attack, business, cloud, compliance, corporate, cybersecurity, data, guide, identity, Internet, jobs, mobile, risk, skills, strategy, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementEach Monday, the Tenable Exposure Management Academy provides the practical, real-world guidance you need to shift from vulnerability management to exposure management. In this post, Jorge Orchilles, Senior Director of Readiness and Proactive Security at Verizon, offers an up-close glimpse at the thinking that drove his move to exposure management. You can read the entire…
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Over 46,000 Grafana instances exposed to account takeover bug
More than 46,000 internet-facing Grafana instances remain unpatched and exposed to a client-side open redirect vulnerability that allows executing a malicious plugin and account takeover. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-46-000-grafana-instances-exposed-to-account-takeover-bug/
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Secure Your Machine Identities Effectively
Why are Machine Identities Crucial to Cybersecurity Strategies? How often do we ruminate about the myriad of digital interactions happening behind the scenes of our daily operations? Machine-to-machine communication forms the backbone of modern business infrastructure. With the proliferation of internet-connected devices and automated processes, the concept of Non-Human Identities (NHIs) is increasingly relevant. In……
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DNS Rebind Protection Revisited
After this week’s attention to META and Yandex localhost abuses, it is time to revisit a core feature/option of protective DNS that offers a feel-good moment to those that applied this safety technique long before this abuse report came about. The in-depth report that triggered this is: Disclosure: Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android.…
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Cloudflare veröffentlicht das Radar-Dashboard von Project Galileo
Diese Fallstudien bieten einen Einblick in die vielfältigen, globalen Bedrohungen, denen diese Gruppen ausgesetzt sind, und in die wichtige Rolle, die Cybersicherheit für ihre Sicherheit im Internet spielt. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/cloudflare-veroeffentlicht-das-radar-dashboard-von-project-galileo/a41127/
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Major Outage Hits Google Cloud and Linked Cloudflare Services, Thousands Affected
Tags: ai, authentication, cloud, cyber, google, infrastructure, Internet, monitoring, service, vulnerabilityOn June 12, 2025, concurrent infrastructure failures at Cloudflare and Google caused widespread service disruptions, highlighting vulnerabilities in modern cloud dependencies. The outages impacted critical services ranging from authentication systems to AI platforms, underscoring the fragility of interconnected internet ecosystems. Cloudflare Outage: Cloudflare’s outage began at 17:52 UTC when internal monitoring detected failures in device…
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New Cybersecurity Executive Order: What You Need To Know
Tags: ai, cisa, cloud, communications, compliance, computing, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, encryption, exploit, fedramp, framework, government, identity, incident response, infrastructure, Internet, iot, network, office, privacy, programming, resilience, risk, service, software, supply-chain, technology, threat, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, zero-trustA new cybersecurity Executive Order aims to modernize federal cybersecurity with key provisions for post-quantum encryption, AI risk and secure software development. On June 6, 2025, the White House released a new Executive Order (EO) aimed at modernizing the nation’s cybersecurity posture. As cyber threats continue to evolve in scale and sophistication, the EO reinforces…
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Government using national security as ‘smokescreen’ in Apple encryption row
Senior conservative MP David Davis says the Home Office should disclose how many secret orders it has issued against telecoms and internet companies to Parliament First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366625724/Government-using-national-security-as-smokescreen-in-Apple-encryption-row
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China-linked hackers target cybersecurity firms, governments in global espionage campaign
Tags: access, awareness, china, ciso, cyber, cybersecurity, defense, detection, espionage, government, hacker, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, monitoring, threatDeployed PurpleHaze for broader espionage: Researchers reported that in October 2024, they detected and mitigated a reconnaissance operation targeting SentinelOne, which they identified as part of a broader activity cluster known as PurpleHaze.As noted earlier, this PurpleHaze activity shared infrastructure with the campaign behind the re-compromise of the South Asian government entity, suggesting a stronger…
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1.5 TB of James Webb Space Telescope data just hit the internet
Online catalog gives open science access to data from early universe First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/06/09/jwst_open_science_data/
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Mirai botnet weaponizes PoC to exploit Wazuh open-source XDR flaw
Two Mirai variants integrate the exploit: The first botnet exploiting CVE-2025-24016 was detected by Akamai in March and used a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit that was published for the vulnerability in late February. That exploit targets the /security/user/authenticate/run_as API endpoint.The second botnet was detected in early May and targeted the /Wazuh endpoint, but the exploit payload…
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The Com operations spurred by internet notoriety
Tags: InternetFirst seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/the-com-operations-spurred-by-internet-notoriety