Daily Cyber Insights - Iain Fraser | Accredited Cybersecurity Journalist & Authority Writer

What is Proactive Cybersecurity and why you Need It Syndicated by: Iain Fraser Cybersecurity Journalist via IainFraser.net/CyberInsights Google Indexed on 270223 at 16:16 CET Yesterday, I found myself on the  ThreatIntelligence  Blog and was reminded of this excellent post addressing Proactive Cybersecurity and examining how to create a proactive cybersecurity strategy that will keep you one step ahead of cyber-threats at all times, so I decided to Syndicate this post again, valuable information. Cybercrime is now an industry that is worth billions of dollars. Hackers are using advanced techniques and tools involving artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation to get around security controls and expedite the cyber attack lifecycle. In such a turbulent threat landscape, businesses can no longer afford to sit and wait around for an attack to hit them. Instead, the only way for businesses to remain secure is to strengthen their defences by anticipating emerging cybe...

GEOCRIME: Russian found guilty in $90m (€83m) Hack Conspiracy Posted by: Iain Fraser - Cybersecurity Journalist IainFRASER.net - Gibraltar Cybersecurity Journalist Google Indexed on 150223 at 14:48 CET 15 February 2023 - Gibraltar This article was first posted on:  GEOPoliticalMatters.com Vladislav Klyushin, 42, the Russian owner of a technology company with alleged links to diminutive despot Vladimir Putin has been convicted for his part in a global conspiracy that used commercially confidential earnings reports stolen from U.S. computer networks to trade on dozens of stocks and ultimately net the criminals some $90m. (€83m)  Vladislav Klyushin, aka “Vladislav Kliushin,” 42, a Muscovite was convicted following a 10-day jury trial of conspiring to obtain unauthorised access to computers, and to commit wire fraud and to commit securities fraud, and with substantive counts of obtaining unauthorised access to computers, wire fraud and securities fraud. U.S. District Court Judge P...

Cloudflare mitigates biggest DDoS Attack EVER Syndicated by: Iain Fraser - Cybersecurity Journalist via IainFraser.net Google Indexed on 140223 at 15:55 CET Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71 million request-per-second DDoS attack This was a weekend of record-breaking DDoS attacks. Over the weekend, Cloudflare detected and mitigated dozens of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks. The majority of attacks peaked in the ballpark of 50-70 million requests per second (rps) with the largest exceeding 71 million rps. This is the largest reported HTTP DDoS attack on record, more than 35% higher than the previous reported record of 46M rps in June 2022. The attacks were HTTP/2-based and targeted websites protected by Cloudflare. They originated from over 30,000 IP addresses. Some of the attacked websites included a popular gaming provider, cryptocurrency companies, hosting providers, and cloud computing platforms. The attacks originated from numerous cloud providers, and we have been working with...

JD Sports suffer massive data breach - Up to 10m Customer records have been hacked By Iain Fraser - Cybersecurity Journalist via IainFraser.net Google Indexed on 010223 at 16:27 CET UK based sports fashion retailer with worldwide exposure has announced that its systems have sustained a cyber breach which has enabled Hackers to steal data of approximately 10 million customers. In an urgent Press Release JD Sports said that the breach had affected JD Sports group brands are JD, Size?, Millets, Blacks, Scotts and MilletSport. They say that the affected data is limited and doesn't include full payment card data and, further, confirmed that there has no reason to believe that account passwords were accessed. The information that may have been accessed consists of the name, billing address, delivery address, email address, phone number, order details and the final four digits of payment cards of approximately 10 million unique customers. Neil Greenhalgh, Chief Financial Officer of JD Spo...