Tag: Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)

Despite the rise in vulnerability reporting, cryptojacking attacks and attacks on critical infrastructure, one threat trend has been on the decline.

A DDoS botnet targeting servers used by the Electrum bitcoin wallet reached 152,000 infected hosts at the end of April.

Holiday spending is on the rise both in-store and online. How can retailers ensure PCI compliance to manage large transaction volumes and post-holiday refunds?

Security researchers discovered a new variant of Mirai malware known as Miori that is targeting internet of things (IoT) devices to integrate into a larger botnet.

BGP hijack attacks are increasing in popularity, but are still largely unaddressed in many organizational incident response plans.

Security researchers discovered that several new malware strains are targeting known Cloudera Hadoop vulnerabilities for bitcoin mining and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) purposes.

These five retail cybersecurity tips will help organizations mitigate cyberattacks and provide customers with the safest shopping experience during the holiday season.

In this first article of a two-part series, IBM X-Force exposes some of its research on the typical malware and tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) used in Brazilian financial cybercrime.

Security researchers reported that a new bot called DemonBot is targeting Hadoop clusters to execute distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

The TimpDoor malware family enables cybercriminals to turn infected Android devices into network proxies without users' knowledge.