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      "body": "<center>https://latesthackingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/pexels-cottonbro-5473298.jpg</center> <br/><a href=\"https://www.comptia.org/content/guides/what-is-a-ddos-attack-how-it-works\">DDoS attacks</a> have been around ever since the mid-nineties, yet they still continue to intimidate business owners to this day. Although they're changing tactics all the time, these botnet attacks are as effective and popular as they've ever been. The latest emerging trend we've seen is the sudden rise of long and exhausting DDoS attacks. Companies are starting to pay attention to this issue and take it seriously, finally investing in proper cyber-protection.\r\n\r\nNonetheless, we have reason to believe that DDoS attacks will soon grow to be even more dangerous. After all, most people had to transfer their businesses online due to the global pandemic. 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They also know how to utilize the latest technology for personal gain. Unfortunately, most IoT devices have weak protection and passwords, if any, which makes the hacker's job easier. Besides that, the number of IoT devices that could become potential bots is rising rapidly every day.\r\n<h2>2. They're Devastating for the Victim</h2>\r\nWe don't have too much recent data about the average cost of a DDoS attack, but the figures from the <a href=\"https://usa.kaspersky.com/about/press-releases/2018_ddos-breach-costs-rise-to-over-2m-for-enterprises-finds-kaspersky-lab-report\">2017 Kaspersky research</a> should give you an idea. It suggests that an attack costs small to medium businesses around $120K and enterprises around $2M on average. Being that these numbers were higher than in the 2016 report, the figure would most likely be significantly higher today, in 2021. After all, DDoS attacks are getting more exhaustive and resistant, and thus more costly, too.\r\n\r\nIn addition, serious data breaches also come with various legal consequences. After an attack, you'll most likely have a number of lawsuits on your hands. And as you may know, hiring a good attorney is crucial in such cases, but it does cost an arm and a leg.\r\n\r\nStill, the biggest repercussion isn't even the loss of revenue or the legal issues — it's the loss of credibility. A DDoS attack will undoubtedly cause distrust among your clients and partners.\r\n<h2>3. They're Highly Profitable for the Hacker</h2>\r\nDDoS attacks are one of the most popular weapons, and they can serve many purposes. For one, many hackers take it as an opportunity to extort the target for money. Therefore, the targeted business has to pay the ransom in order to prevent or stop the botnet attack. One of the most recent examples of such a threat happened to Radware just a month ago. 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What's more, hackers are starting to use machine learning to search for weak passwords and locate thousands of suitable IoT devices in just minutes. Thus, it's no wonder that some of the world's biggest botnets, such as Mirai, are still expanding to this day. They will most likely keep doing so, as the number of IoT devices is increasing each day.\r\n\r\nOn the upside, we might finally see regulations being made regarding the security of IoT devices. Tech manufacturers might have to address this issue and provide proper protection for their users in the near future.\r\n<h2>Conclusion</h2>\r\nDDoS attacks are not only still ubiquitous but also more vicious than ever. However, with adequate preparation, you might be able to avoid such an incident and save your precious business. For one, you should invest in a complex but organized multi-layer security solution, as well as backup servers. 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      "body": "<center>https://latesthackingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/pexels-pixabay-60504.jpg</center> <br/>Subdomain takeovers are pretty common, as a March 2020 study of Microsoft subdomains showed. The researchers specifically found <a href=\"https://vullnerability.com/blog/microsoft-subdomain-account-takeover\">around 670 Microsoft subdomains</a> vulnerable to hijacking.\r\n\r\nThe conundrum does not only affect large multinational companies like Microsoft, though, a subdomain takeover can affect any organization, big or small. That leads us to ask, “Is subdomain hijacking preventable?” This post looks at this question through examples, along with why subdomain lookups are probably beneficial to any firm’s cybersecurity strategies.\r\n<h2><b>Subdomain Takeover Definition and Risks</b></h2>\r\nBefore we move on to tackle the nitty-gritty, let us first define what a subdomain takeover is.\r\n\r\nA subdomain takeover occurs when attackers are able to seize control of a target organization’s subdomains, typically via cloud and other third-party services. It happens when web projects end but the subdomain Domain Name System (DNS) entries are not fully shut down.\r\n\r\nSubdomain hijacking can enable threat actors to do this:\r\n<ul>\r\n <li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Ask your website visitors for their account credentials</li>\r\n <li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Force your site visitors to install a malicious extension to or update their browsers and spy on them</li>\r\n <li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Ask your website visitors to upload project files</li>\r\n <li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Ask your employees to upload sensitive corporate documents</li>\r\n <li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Solicit money from your site visitors or employees</li>\r\n <li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Manipulate the content on your website and even network</li>\r\n <li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Steal administrator passwords</li>\r\n <li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Collect information about your security certificates to forge these</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nBut, as has been said, these risks can be somewhat reduced by monitoring your company’s subdomains. A tool like <a href=\"https://subdomains.whoisxmlapi.com/\">https://subdomains.whoisxmlapi.com/</a> can help with this. Here is how.\r\n<h2><b>How Subdomain Lookups Can Help</b></h2>\r\nTo avoid the dangers that subdomain takeovers pose, heed the following best practices.\r\n<h3><b>Do a Subdomain Audit of Your Network</b></h3>\r\nBy creating an inventory of all your subdomains and monitoring for additions and deletions, you can better rid your network of gaping security gaps that attackers can exploit via a subdomain takeover.\r\n\r\nA subdomain lookup, for instance, using the domain name cnn[.]com turned up several hundreds results, not all of which, however, have been updated recently (i.e., in 2020 or 2021).\r\n\r\nA total of 111 of the resulting subdomains have not been updated recently. 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      "body": "<center>https://latesthackingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/bitcoin_main.png</center> <br/>Have you ever heard about Bitcoin? You may be thinking that it is like the usual money scheme that is common nowadays. Perhaps you are also expecting that it is risky to engage in this kind of investment. Sometimes it seems a bit suspicious. Bitcoin is an interesting, complex modern money, which operates just online, which permits the buyer to be somewhat unidentified. And if you've heard about it, you're still saying the same thing. Here below some information, you must consider clarifying the theory and answering some of your questions about bitcoin. \r\n<h2><b>Bitcoin Is Decentralized or Distributed </b></h2>\r\nNeither the bank nor the government can regulate the currency's supply, just like you can put money into bitcoin in online casinos and sports websites and not require central authority approval. 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      "body": "<center>https://latesthackingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Massive-Cyberattacks-that-Shook-the-World-in-2020.png</center> <br/>At first glance, most organizations are improving their cybersecurity and getting better at defending direct cyberattacks. However, in this shape-shifting space of cybersecurity, hackers have already shifted to indirect targets. This situation makes new battlegrounds for businesses even before they’ve mastered the battle in their own backyard. Meanwhile, the cost of cybersecurity is reaching an unsustainable level and often the security investments fail to deliver a better result.\r\n\r\nCyber threats are always costly and became the most common issues in 2020 as cybercriminals stepped up to take advantage of Covid-19 confusion.\r\n\r\nAmong the cybersecurity threats, Malware stands as the #1 cyber threat with a rise in identity theft, phishing, and ransomware. Monetization holding its position as hackers’ top motivation. 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The threat actor used those accounts to request Bitcoin from the followers, fraudulently promising double in return. Though the Bitcoin scan was live only for a short time, it earned Bitcoin worth over $100,000.\r\n\r\nLater Twitter issued a statement, <em>“We detected what we believe to be a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools. We have locked accounts that were compromised and will restore access to the original account owner only when we are certain we can do so securely</em>.”\r\n\r\nTwo weeks after the <a href=\"https://www.indusface.com/blog/ways-a-cyberattacks-hurt-business/?utm_source=latesthackingnews-article&amp;utm_medium=Referral&amp;utm_campaign=latesthackingnews-article-massive-cyberattacks-that-shook-the-world-in-2020\">massive cyberattack</a>, the DoJ (Department of Justice) accused three suspects, including 17-year-old Graham Ivan Clark, the mastermind of this embarrassing incident.\r\n<ol start=\"2\">\r\n <li><strong>Toll Group</strong></li>\r\n</ol>\r\nToll Group occupies the leading position in the list of recent cyberattacks 2020 as it encountered ransomware attacks twice in 3 months. On February 3, 2020, the company announced on social media channels that it had endured a cyberattack and decided to shut down some of its systems as a precautionary measure.\r\n\r\nMany of their customer-facing apps are distributed because of this cyber incident. Toll Group tweeted on Twitter as resuming their service to the customers as soon as possible is their immediate priority.\r\n<ol start=\"3\">\r\n <li><strong>Zoom App</strong></li>\r\n</ol>\r\nWith the sudden shift to working from home due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the video-conferencing solution skyrocketed across organizations worldwide. Zoom App enhanced as the big brand for the virtual meeting. As to be expected with such exponential growth, the app has been continuously targeted by cyberattacks.\r\n\r\nIn April 2020, it did experience a data breach where more than 500,000 passwords of Zoom accounts were stolen and made available for free or sale across dark web forums. As most of the users tend to reuse their old passwords, this password stuffing attack impacted everything from individuals to educational and financial organizations. Login credentials, personal meeting HostKeys, and URLs of the victims were released.\r\n\r\nAs a response to these <a href=\"https://www.indusface.com/blog/best-practices-to-protect-your-business-from-data-breach/?utm_source=latesthackingnews-article&amp;utm_medium=Referral&amp;utm_campaign=latesthackingnews-article-massive-cyberattacks-that-shook-the-world-in-2020\">recent data breaches</a> 2020, Zoom company later enhanced the security of their Zoom meeting app and updated their iOS app to stop sharing user data to Facebook.\r\n<ol start=\"4\">\r\n <li><strong>World Health Organization (WHO)</strong></li>\r\n</ol>\r\nAmong the massive cyberattacks 2020, stealing information from the companies who are working to fight the COVID-19 pandemic is exceptionally shocking. On April 19, around 25,000 email addresses, as well as passwords of significant organizations like WHO, the CDC (the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), NIH, and the Gates Foundation was exposed online.\r\n\r\nWHO openly states that some of their staff’s credentials were leaked, but the data exposed was not belonging to a recent account; hence, the breach didn’t constitute any risk to them. As a response to the data breach, WHO migrated the affected systems to a more authenticated and secure one.\r\n<ol start=\"5\">\r\n <li><strong>Marriott International</strong></li>\r\n</ol>\r\nThis popular hotel chain heads the list of recent data breaches 2020 list. Marriott, the largest hotel brand with 7300 resort and hotel properties in 134 countries. The attacker often targets hotel chains to steal the personal information of guests or track the travel details of business leaders and government officials with security clearance.\r\n\r\nOn March 31, Marriott disclosed that the personal details of 5.2 million guests were accessed through the login credentials of two employees at their franchise property. The hackers stole personally identifiable information including, names, phone numbers, addresses, birth dates &amp; airline loyalty information.\r\n\r\nUpon the discovery of the incident, they disabled the login credentials and immediately started an investigation, also implemented monitoring as well as proper resources to alert and inform their hotel guests.\r\n<ol start=\"6\">\r\n <li><strong>Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp</strong></li>\r\n</ol>\r\nOn April 18, CTS experienced a service disruption of clients as a result of a massive ransomware cyber-attack. Generally, in a ransomware attack, attackers demand the victims pay ransom to restore the stolen data. However, this ransomware deviates from the recent data breaches 2020 and threatens the company that they will reveal the stolen information online if they fail to pay the ransom. The company paid $50 – $70 Million for ransom to restore their client services.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ol start=\"7\">\r\n <li><strong>MobiFriends</strong></li>\r\n</ol>\r\nLet's explore our next item in the list of recent cyberattacks 2020. On Jan 12, 2020, the database of MobiFriends, a popular dating website, was compromised. The hacker revealed the personal details of over 3,688,060 MobiFriends users on a web hacking forum. The database contains information like Usernames, email addresses, encrypted passwords, Dates of birth, mobile numbers, genders, and many more.\r\n\r\nThe stolen data comprises corporate email addresses of companies like Experian, AIG (American International Group), Walmart, and Virgin Media. In case, any of the users are using the breached password to login with their email address, their corporations can be at risk of BEC (Business Email Compromise).\r\n<h3><strong>Enhance Your Security</strong></h3>\r\nThese recent cyberattacks 2020 warn that there is a long way ahead for organizations to reach a more secure environment. Cyber attackers love crises. 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      "body": "<center>https://latesthackingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Hacked-Facebook-accounts-on-dark-web..jpg</center> <br/>A new data dump has appeared online that includes key information about Pakistani citizens. Reportedly, the database up for sale now includes scraped data of 176 million Pakistani citizens’ communication details.\r\n<h2>Pakistani Citizens Data For Sale</h2>\r\nIn a recent report, <a href=\"https://www.hackread.com/pakistani-mobile-phone-users-database-sold-online/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hackread</a> has disclosed a data dump on the dark web including details of 176 million Pakistani citizens.\r\n\r\nThis data put up for sale includes information about the users’ personal and communication details, including physical addresses.\r\n\r\nSpecifically, the database includes records of names, physical addresses, city, phone numbers, name of the telecom company to which the number belongs, national ID numbers (CNIC), IMSI numbers, activate dates, activate status, and biometric verification status.\r\n\r\nBiometric verification is compulsory for all Pakistani citizens to have their SIM cards activated.\r\n\r\nAnalyzing the database reveals that the information may have been gathered after scraping, and is not a result of theft.\r\n\r\nWhile the database only includes basic information, it may have potentially devastating results in the long run. That’s because verified numbers and CNIC are two key parameters in the country for the citizens to use major services.\r\n\r\nMoreover, the easy availability of this information may also assist in other malicious activities such as SIM swapping, SMS phishing, identity theft scams, and more.\r\n<h2>Malicious Android Apps Targeting Pakistan Users</h2>\r\nEarlier this month, some malicious Android apps also caught attention that impersonated various legit apps meant for Pakistani citizens. However, the apps were actually spyware.\r\n\r\nAs revealed by <a href=\"https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2021/01/12/new-android-spyware-targets-users-in-pakistan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sophos</a>, the major apps that the malware mimicked, included The Pakistan Citizen Portal, Registered SIMs Checker, Mobile Packages Pakistan TPL insurance, and Pakistan Salat Time – a Muslim prayer time app.\r\n\r\nHowever, the malicious app versions didn’t appear on any legit app stores. Whereas, the legit apps continue to exist on the Google Play Store.\r\n\r\nIt is unclear if the scraped data has any connection with the Trojanized apps.\r\n\r\nHowever, what’s clear is that Pakistani citizens should remain very about their data security. Especially, given the current cybersecurity status of the IT infrastructure in <a href=\"https://latesthackingnews.com/?s=pakistan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pakistan</a> and the vague cybersecurity regulations, paying attention to online security is crucial for all citizens.\r\n\r\nLet us know your thoughts in the comments. <br /><center><hr/><em>Posted from my blog with <a href='https://wordpress.org/plugins/steempress/'>SteemPress</a> : https://latesthackingnews.com/2021/01/28/data-of-176-million-pakistani-citizens-found-for-sale-on-dark-web/ </em><hr/></center>",
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