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Why Your VPN May Not Be As Secure As It Claims

May 6, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, Bill Woodcock, dani cronce, dhcp option 121, dhcp starvation attack, dynamic host control protocol, john kristoff, Latest Warnings, leviathan security, lizzie moratti, Packet Clearing House, The Coming Storm, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 06 May 2024 14:24:47 +0000

Virtual private networking (VPN) companies market their services as a way to prevent anyone from snooping on your Internet usage. But new research suggests this is a dangerous assumption when connecting to a VPN via an untrusted network, because attackers on the same network could force a target’s traffic off of the protection provided by their VPN without triggering any alerts to the user.

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Report: Recent 10x Increase in Cyberattacks on Ukraine

March 11, 2022 admin anycast, Bill Woodcock, DNS, john todd, Latest Warnings, linx, london internet exchange, megafon, Packet Clearing House, quad9, rostelecom, russia's war on ukraine, The Coming Storm

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2022 16:50:11 +0000

As their cities suffered more intense bombardment by Russian military forces this week, Ukrainian Internet users came under renewed cyberattacks, with one Internet company providing service there saying they blocked ten times the normal number of phishing and malware attacks targeting Ukrainians.

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The Great $50M African IP Address Heist

December 11, 2019 admin A Little Sunshine, Adconion Direct, afrinic, afriq*access, Bill Woodcock, eddy kayihura, infoplan, ipv4leasing, itc, jan vermeulen, mybroadband.co.za, Packet Clearing House, Ron Guilmette, the african network information centre, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 22:31:12 +0000

A top executive at the nonprofit entity responsible for doling out chunks of Internet addresses to businesses and other organizations in Africa has resigned his post following accusations that he secretly operated several companies which sold tens of millions of dollars worth of the increasingly scarce resource to online marketers. The allegations stemmed from a three-year investigation by a U.S.-based researcher whose findings shed light on a murky area of Internet governance that is all too often exploited by spammers and scammers alike.

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A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking Attacks

February 18, 2019 admin A Little Sunshine, APNIC, Bill Woodcock, Cisco Talos, Comodo, CrowdStrike, data breaches, DHS, DNSpionage, dnssec, EPP, extensible provisioning protocol, Farsight Security, FireEye, Frobbit, ICANN, John Crain, Key Systems, Lars Michael Jogbäck, LetsEncrypt, Netnod, Packet Clearing House, Patrik Fältström, PCH, SecurityTrails, The Coming Storm, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 13:51:01 +0000

The U.S. government — along with a number of leading security companies — recently warned about a series of highly complex and widespread attacks that allowed suspected Iranian hackers to siphon huge volumes of email passwords and other sensitive data from multiple governments and private companies. But to date, the specifics of exactly how that attack went down and who was hit have remained shrouded in secrecy. This post seeks to document the extent of those attacks, and traces the origins of this overwhelmingly successful cyber espionage campaign back to a cascading series of breaches at key Internet infrastructure providers.