Tag: cyberattacks

India ranks 12th globally when it comes to dangers on web : Kaspersky Lab

TechHerald Bureau

Mumbai: According to a recent report by Kaspersky Lab, India is ranked 12th world wide for when it comes to the dangers associated with surfing the web. Q3 in India saw that 32.8% of users were attacked by web-borne threats between July- September 2018. Kaspersky Lab products detected 48,093,743 Internet-borne malware incidents on the computers of KSN participants in India. Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) is a complex distributed infrastructure dedicated to processing cybersecurity-related data streams from millions of voluntary participants around the world Exploiting vulnerabilities in browsers and their plugins…

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500 pc increase in average DDoS attack size : Nexusguard report

TechHerald Bureau

The quarterly report, which unbiasedly evaluates thousands of worldwide DDoS attacks, attributes the dramatic rise to IoT botnets and Satori malware exploits, which is a variant of the notorious Mirai malware.

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Trend Micro’s ‘Virtual Patching’ to shield enterprises from vulnerabilities

TechHerald Bureau

Trend Micro’s answer to the unwinnable challenge of patching unpatchable systems is Deep Security Virtual Patching, a ‘vulnerability shield’ that protects systems during the risk window and beyond.

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2018 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report raises alarm on encrypted threats, chip-based attacks

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Milipitas, US: SonicWall, a global security provider has come out with its latest stats on malware volume and ransomware attacks in 2018 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report. Malware Volume Still Climbing from 2017’s Record Highs The malware boom of 2017 has shown no signs of stopping through the first half of 2018. SonicWall Capture Labs threat researchers recorded 5.99 billion malware attacks during the first two quarters of the year. At this same point in 2017, SonicWall logged 2.97 billion malware attacks. On a month-to-month basis in 2018, malware volume remained…

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