Securitybeat

Community service to promote awareness of emerging security threats and best practices.

Category: Network Security

Contains DDoS Mitigation, DNS Security, Firewalls, Microsegmentation, Network Access Control, Network Detection and Response,, SSL Visibility, and Wireless Secuity

  • SnakeKeylogger Infection Spreading

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    The Register highlighted an alert from Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs this month regarding increased detections of SnakeKeylogger, a keyboard logger. SnakeKeylogger, aka KrakenKeylogger, is a Microsoft .NET-based stealer already known for credential theft and keylogging capabilities.  Read more

  • Microsoft DDoS Protection Pours Fuel on the DDoS Fire

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    According to Bleeping Computer, a nine-hour global outage in Microsoft services was attributed to a distributed denial of service attack and an implementation flaw in their DDoS Protection services. A Microsoft report on ID KTV1-HWS states that the Azure Front Door (AFD) and Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) first detected the availability issue. Unfortunately, error… Read more