France's Conseil d'Etat, the country's supreme administrative court,
on Friday said it upheld a decision by a watchdog imposing a 100 million
euro ($111.46 million) fine on the U.S. tech giant for breaches linked
to its cookies policy.
The fine imposed by France's CNIL data protection authority was proportionate, the court said in a statement.
Microsoft has repelled the most powerful DDoS attack to date on users of the Azure cloud platform.
Source: delo.ua
According to the corporation's report, the power of the DDoS attack was 3.47 terabits per second (Tbps).
The DDoS attack was carried out in November 2021, and Microsoft
Azure called it the most powerful in the history of the Internet.
Attack vectors are UDP bandwidth saturation -packets to port 80
using Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP), Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol (CLDAP), Domain Name System (DNS), and Network Time Protocol
(NTP).
In total, in 2021, the company repelled 611,657 unique cyber
attacks: 251,944 in the first half of the year and 40% more – 359,713 –
in the second.
Most of these incidents occurred on May 10 and August 10 — 2,043 and 4,296, respectively.
The Ministry of Digital Transformation has officially stated that
«all evidence points to the fact that Russia is behind the largest
cyberattack in 4 years on the websites of Ukrainian government
agencies»
The report identified 32 new ransomware
families in 2021, bringing the total to 157 and representing a 26%
increase over the previous year
Ivanti announced the results of the
Ransomware Spotlight Year End Report that it conducted with Cyber
Security Works and Cyware. The report identified 32 new ransomware
families in 2021, bringing the total to 157 and representing a 26%
increase over the previous year.
The report also found that these ransomware
groups are continuing to target unpatched vulnerabilities and weaponize
zero-day vulnerabilities in record time to instigate crippling attacks.
At the same time, they are broadening their attack spheres and finding
newer ways to compromise organizational networks and fearlessly trigger
high-impact assaults.
Below are a few top observations and trends from the Ransomware Spotlight Year End Report:
Unpatched vulnerabilities remain the most prominent attack vectors
exploited by ransomware groups. The analysis uncovered 65 new
vulnerabilities tied to ransomware last year, representing a 29% growth
compared to the previous year and bringing the total number of
vulnerabilities associated with ransomware to 288. Alarmingly, over
one-third (37%) of these newly added vulnerabilities were actively
trending on the dark web and repeatedly exploited. Parallelly, 56% of
the 223 older vulnerabilities identified prior to 2021 continued to be
actively exploited by ransomware groups. This proves that organizations
need to prioritize and patch the weaponized vulnerabilities that
ransomware groups are targeting – whether they are newly identified
vulnerabilities or older vulnerabilities.
Ransomware groups continue to find and leverage zero-day
vulnerabilities, even before the CVEs are added to the National
Vulnerability Database and patches are released. The QNAP
(CVE-2021-28799), Sonic Wall (CVE-2021-20016), Kaseya (CVE-2021-30116),
and most recently Apache Log4j (CVE-2021-44228) vulnerabilities were
exploited even before they made it to the National Vulnerability
Database (NVD).
More
than 1.5 million US banking/payment cards may reportedly be found via
the dark web, according to a study carried out by cybersecurity firm NordVPN.
The study by NordVPN
reveals that a total of 1,561,739 American payment card details had
been discovered by researchers. This sensitive information was for sale
via the dark web. Notably, the average price for a US bank card offered
via the dark web was around $5.80.
In statements shared with Yahoo Finance, Adrianus Warmenhoven, Defensive Strategist at NordVPN, said:
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