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Just days after the launch of the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One, Kaspersky Lab experts have discovered that PC gamers across Europe were hit by a massive number of attacks in 2013. Currently Kaspersky Lab knows 4.6 million pieces of gaming focused malware, with the total number of attacks facing gamers hitting 11.7 million globally.
===> On average, users were hit by 34,000 attacks related to gaming malware daily. <===
Gust MEES's insight:
===> On average, users were hit by 34,000 attacks related to gaming malware daily. <===
Eine chinesische Hacker-Gruppe soll laut Symantec Kundenaufträge für Cyber-Attacken rund um den Globus ausgeführt haben. Die Gruppe soll hauptsächlich US-amerikanische Organisationen angreifen, um Informationen zu stehlen.
Gust MEES's insight:
Die USA sind das primäre Ziel von Hidden Lynx: amerikanische Organisationen machen rund 53 Prozent der Angriffsopfer ausmachen. Mit weitem Abstand folgen Taiwan und China mit 16 beziehungsweise 9 Prozent.
Deutschland steht mit 2,2 Prozent auf Platz 7 der bevorzugt angegriffenen Länder – und damit noch vor Russland mit 1,7 Prozent. Besonders häufig sind die Finanzbranche, Luftfahrt, Rüstungsindustrie, Energiewirtschaft sowie Technologiefirmen betroffen. Aber auch Regierungsbehörden werden attackiert.
LinkedIn is working on its right-on-the-ball-with-security reputation, this time letting slip its domain details.
According to this App.net post:
“LinkedIn just got DNS hijacked, and for the last hour or so, all of your traffic has been sent to a network hosted by this company [confluence-networks.com]. And they don't require SSL, so if you tried to visit, your browser sent your long-lived session cookies in plaintext.” (User @berg)
Patch Tuesday has been and gone, which means that if you're responsible for the security of the computers in your office - or the ones you use at home - it's time to update your systems once again.
It's time for the Statistics related to the Cyber Attacks reported in the July 2013 Timelines (Part I and Part II). You will find a (hopefully) welcome novelty from this month: as a matter of fact ...
The amount of cybercriminal activity associated with the Zeus family of financial Trojan programs has increased during the past few months, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro.
Gust MEES's insight:
The amount of cybercriminal activity associated with the Zeus family of financial Trojan programs has increased during the past few months, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro.
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