More than 100 financial firms were victims of distributed denial-of-service attacks by the same threat actor with North America and Europe overwhelmingly making up the dominant share, according to a recent report. Cyber intelligence sharing group FS-ISAC said…
Singapore is in the top five destinations globally for IoT attacks, the latest installment of F5 Networks’ The Hunt for IoT series shows. The report, The Growth and Evolution of Thingbots Ensures Chaos, suggests the island nation has a sizable and vulnerable…
Asia Pacific was heavily hit by cyber attacks during the first six months of the year, taking more attacks than other regions in most threat categories, according to Trend Micro. Globally, Trend Micro detected 82 million ransomware threats and found that on…
Unsecured IoT devices continued to drive significant DDoS attack traffic in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to Akamai’s latest State of the Internet / Security Report. The fourth quarter report also revealed that attacks greater than 100 Gbps increased…
The number of malware attacks increased in October, according to Check Point Software’s monthly Global Threat Index. Check Point’s Threat Intelligence Research Team found that both the number of active malware families and number of attacks increased by 5%…
Singapore’s StarHub has blamed DDoS attacks originating from its customers’ own infected devices for two broadband outages over the past few days. At a press conference yesterday, StarHub announced the latest findings of an investigation into the outages on…