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Cybercriminals Never Surprise Me: New Attack Vectors

Friends,

Imagine you receive this email (see below) while you are being
bombarded with 700mb to 1Gb of DDoS attack? Ransomware was
supposed to be an ‘inside’ job where a trusted employee clicks a link,
gets infected (accidentally) and then you need to pay the
cybercriminal their fees to provide the unlock code. Cryptolocker
became the norm, then Locky took it up a notch by searching for
Structured Message Block (SMB) file shares, worming its way across
your organization so that the ransom requested could be even more – remember Locky has
crippled hospitals who had to pay as much as $200,000 USD just to get the unlock key:

“If you will not pay in time, DDoS attack will start, your web-services will go down permanently.
After that, price to stop will be increased to 5 BTC [bitcoin] with further increment of 5 BTC for
every day of attack. NOTE, i?m not joking.

My attack are extremely powerful now – now average 700-800Gbps, sometimes over 1 Tbps
per second. It will pass any remote protections; no current protection systems can help.”

At first, no one was sure if this was the group or person that hit Dyn, which provides DNS
services to major providers like Spotify and Twitter. In any case, during National Cyber Security
Awareness month, this DDoS attack of this magnitude, affecting all of the US East Coast
internet shows how simply weak our networks are to the latest onslaught of cyber attackers.

This month, we have decided to publish the most articles we possibly can on the subject
matters of breach prevention, handling the post-crisis situation when you have been breached,
developing an immunity to cyber-crime, how to better use your SIEM and so much more.

In addition, this month we’re very exciting to name the top twenty Cyber Security Leaders of
2016 for their innovations in the field of information security with the full list to follow in this
edition of Cyber Warnings and on our website,
here: http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/cyber-security-leaders-2016/

Please join us in congratulating these innovators who are helping us all stay one step ahead of
the next threat. Fall and winter are coming so stay tuned as we gear up for RSA Conference
2017 and our annual print edition – right around the corner. Cheers!

To our faithful readers, Enjoy

Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini, Editor-in-Chief, [email protected]

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