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Microsoft’s April 2019 Patches Fix 76 Vulnerabilities Threat Alert

Overview Microsoft released April 2019 security patches on Tuesday that fix 76 vulnerabilities ranging from simple spoofing attacks to remote code execution in various products, including .NET Core, Adobe Flash Player, CSRSS, Microsoft Browsers, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Graphics Component, Microsoft JET Database Engine, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office...

2018 DDoS Attack Landscape-3

Analysis of DDoS Attacks in 2018 3.1  DDoS Attack Count and Peak Size 3.1.1  Attack Count and Traffic In 2018, we observed 148,000 DDoS attacks (down 28.4% from 2017), which generated a total of 643,100 TB of traffic, about the same level as in 2017. DDoS attacks keep expanding in...

OODA Loop: The correlation between DDoS attacks and cryptomining

OODA Loop - A new NSFOCUS report indicates that the declining price of cryptocurrencies in 2018 prompted threat actors to stop using botnet resources for cryptomining attacks – as these were getting less and less profitable – and increasingly use them to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks instead.