Real time hacking attacks

It seems nearly every day we’re reading about Internet attacks aimed at knocking sites offline and breaking into networks, but it’s often difficult to visualize this type of activity. In this post, we’ll take a look at multiple ways of tracking online attacks and attackers around the globe and in real-time. A couple of notes about these graphics. Much of the data that powers these live maps is drawn from a mix of actual targets and “honeypots,” decoy systems that security firms deploy to gather data about the sources, methods and frequency of online attacks. Also, the organizations referenced in some of these maps as “attackers” typically are compromised systems within those organizations that are being used to relay attacks launched from someplace else. The FireEye recently became famous in War Games (I’m guessing that association is intentional). Not a lot of raw data included in this map, but it’s fun to watch. Kaspersky’s Cyberthreat Real-time Map is probably the closest of them all to a video game. Anubis Networks, takes the visitor on an automated tour of the world, using something akin to Google Earth and map data based on infections from the top known malware families. It’s a neat idea, but more of a malware infection map than an attack map, and not terribly interactive either. In this respect, it’s a lot like the F-Secure, the Trend Micro, and Team Cymru‘s Data from OpenDNS’s Global Network graph. If all these maps are a bit too Hollywood for you, then you’ll love...

It’s interesting to watch who is initiating cyber-attacks against whom live, globally. Thousands of websites get hacked every day due to vulnerable files, plugins, and misconfiguration on the servers. If you are a website owner or administrator, you can perform a security scan against your site to Coming back to the article, if you are interested to watch attacks happening around the world, then following maps will mesmerize you. Digital Attack Map Watch daily DDoS attacks worldwide with By attacks size • Large • Unusual • Combined By attack type • TCP Connection (filling connections) • Volumetric (eating bandwidth) • Fragmentation (pieces of packets) • Application • Source & destination port number • Duration DDoS is dangerous to your online business; it can take down your online presence and hurt your reputation and finances. If you are a business owner or web administrator, then you may consider protecting your online assets from DDoS by using services like Trellix • Top 5 reported industries • Top attacker by country It’s not as detailed as one above but still useful if you are looking for data in industry and country wise. Kaspersky Cyberthreat real-time map by • On-Scanner access • On-Demand Scanner • Web Anti-virus • Mail Anti-virus • Intrusion Detection System • Vulnerability Scan • • Botnet Activity detection You can have data in table format under the Threat Cloud AKAMAI Real-time web monitor by Threatbutt Internet attack attribution map by You get to see the liv...

• 49 shares • 30 • 12 • 2 • 2 • 2 • 1 • • Every Friday I try to share one of my favourite finds of the week – a web-site, tool or app that has impressed me. My Friday Favourite this week is the Norse Attack Map – a Real-Time Cyber-Attack Map of the world. What is it? The Norse Attack Map is an interactive Cyber-Attack map that visualises the global cyber war in real time. It shows the steady flow of cyber-attacks taking place online, depicted as laser beams on a map. The attacks visualised are real attacks on the infrastructure of threat intelligence company How can it help me? The Norse Attack Map is a powerful way to demonstrate to people that the threat of Cyber-attacks is real. The map can be branded with your own company logo, and as an IT company, displaying the real-time Norse Attack Map on a monitor in your office reception area would make an excellent talking point for visitors. How much does it cost? The Norse Attack Map is free to use. How can I get it? To view the You can also follow Thanks to Mostyn Thomas of Richard Tubb is one of the best-known experts within the global IT Managed Service Provider (MSP) community. He launched and sold his own MSP business before creating a leading MSP media and consultancy practice. Richard helps IT business owner’s take back control by freeing up their time and building a business that can run without them. He’s the author of the book “The IT Business Owner’s Survival Guide” and writer of the award-winning blog www.tubblog....

Security providers that focus on digital communications started noticing an uptick in attacks on companies that manage digital phone call services this fall. Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty Images Criminal groups have been sending threatening messages in the past couple of months to companies that manage broadband phone services all over the world, promising they'll flood the digital phone lines with traffic and take them offline unless the targets pay a ransom. What those extortionists have discovered is that the number of phone calls that take place at least partially over the internet has quietly and dramatically increased in recent years — and there's a lot at stake when major providers go down. Like landline providers, companies that manage digital phone calls, also known as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services, are required to transmit audio in real time, facilitating personal, business and even emergency calls. It's probably a bigger part of our lives than many people realize. It's much cheaper and often more accessible and scalable, a staple of working from home during the coronavirus pandemic. Small companies and people living overseas might have been using purely digital phone lines for years to reach customers, friends and family abroad. Large carriers and telecommunication companies often use VoIP to handle calls or connections between providers, while smaller carriers are routing tens of thousands of simultaneous calls over the internet. Call center compani...

Regrettably, cyberattacks and breaches are big business – bad actors with an endless stream of nefarious motives populate the internet, ready to pounce on insecure data and immature security practices. There’s no shortage of attacks and breaches, and that can make it hard to manage if you like to keep up with the latest security news. Happily, we’ve done the hard work to round up ten of 2022’s top breaches and cyberattacks so far. They’re not in any particular order, but you should read on if you want to find out how significant an attack can be – and if you want to learn how to avoid the same issues. There’s plenty of business security advice elsewhere on the site, including our explainer on the (Image credit: Lordowski / Shutterstock) Crypto.com Despite the blockchain being a relatively secure transaction method, the thieves used a pretty simple method to get the job done: they Initially, Crypto.com described the hack as a mere “incident” and denied any theft, but clarified the situation a few days later and reimbursed the affected users. Microsoft Computing giant Microsoft is no stranger to cyberattacks, and on March 20th 2022 the firm was targeted by a hacking collective called The hackers made off with some material from Microsoft, too, but by March 22nd Microsoft announced that they’d shut down the hacking attempt promptly and that only one account was compromised. Microsoft said that no customer data had been stolen, and Microsoft undoubtedly benefitted from its eff...

The constant barrage of headlines see penetration attempts in real time, via a DEFCON-esque map that feels like it was ripped right from the old WarGames movie. Witnessing the constant ping-ping-ping of individual penetration attempts is hypnotic. If you watch long enough, the map will explode in a frenzy of color, as coordinated mass-hack attacks blast across the globe—most often out of China, and often pointed toward the U.S. The U.S. itself is the steady number two on the map’s “Attack Origins” list, however.

It’s interesting to watch who is initiating cyber-attacks against whom live, globally. Thousands of websites get hacked every day due to vulnerable files, plugins, and misconfiguration on the servers. If you are a website owner or administrator, you can perform a security scan against your site to Coming back to the article, if you are interested to watch attacks happening around the world, then following maps will mesmerize you. Digital Attack Map Watch daily DDoS attacks worldwide with By attacks size • Large • Unusual • Combined By attack type • TCP Connection (filling connections) • Volumetric (eating bandwidth) • Fragmentation (pieces of packets) • Application • Source & destination port number • Duration DDoS is dangerous to your online business; it can take down your online presence and hurt your reputation and finances. If you are a business owner or web administrator, then you may consider protecting your online assets from DDoS by using services like Trellix • Top 5 reported industries • Top attacker by country It’s not as detailed as one above but still useful if you are looking for data in industry and country wise. Kaspersky Cyberthreat real-time map by • On-Scanner access • On-Demand Scanner • Web Anti-virus • Mail Anti-virus • Intrusion Detection System • Vulnerability Scan • • Botnet Activity detection You can have data in table format under the Threat Cloud AKAMAI Real-time web monitor by Threatbutt Internet attack attribution map by You get to see the liv...

• 49 shares • 30 • 12 • 2 • 2 • 2 • 1 • • Every Friday I try to share one of my favourite finds of the week – a web-site, tool or app that has impressed me. My Friday Favourite this week is the Norse Attack Map – a Real-Time Cyber-Attack Map of the world. What is it? The Norse Attack Map is an interactive Cyber-Attack map that visualises the global cyber war in real time. It shows the steady flow of cyber-attacks taking place online, depicted as laser beams on a map. The attacks visualised are real attacks on the infrastructure of threat intelligence company How can it help me? The Norse Attack Map is a powerful way to demonstrate to people that the threat of Cyber-attacks is real. The map can be branded with your own company logo, and as an IT company, displaying the real-time Norse Attack Map on a monitor in your office reception area would make an excellent talking point for visitors. How much does it cost? The Norse Attack Map is free to use. How can I get it? To view the You can also follow Thanks to Mostyn Thomas of Richard Tubb is one of the best-known experts within the global IT Managed Service Provider (MSP) community. He launched and sold his own MSP business before creating a leading MSP media and consultancy practice. Richard helps IT business owner’s take back control by freeing up their time and building a business that can run without them. He’s the author of the book “The IT Business Owner’s Survival Guide” and writer of the award-winning blog www.tubblog....

Regrettably, cyberattacks and breaches are big business – bad actors with an endless stream of nefarious motives populate the internet, ready to pounce on insecure data and immature security practices. There’s no shortage of attacks and breaches, and that can make it hard to manage if you like to keep up with the latest security news. Happily, we’ve done the hard work to round up ten of 2022’s top breaches and cyberattacks so far. They’re not in any particular order, but you should read on if you want to find out how significant an attack can be – and if you want to learn how to avoid the same issues. There’s plenty of business security advice elsewhere on the site, including our explainer on the (Image credit: Lordowski / Shutterstock) Crypto.com Despite the blockchain being a relatively secure transaction method, the thieves used a pretty simple method to get the job done: they Initially, Crypto.com described the hack as a mere “incident” and denied any theft, but clarified the situation a few days later and reimbursed the affected users. Microsoft Computing giant Microsoft is no stranger to cyberattacks, and on March 20th 2022 the firm was targeted by a hacking collective called The hackers made off with some material from Microsoft, too, but by March 22nd Microsoft announced that they’d shut down the hacking attempt promptly and that only one account was compromised. Microsoft said that no customer data had been stolen, and Microsoft undoubtedly benefitted from its eff...

Security providers that focus on digital communications started noticing an uptick in attacks on companies that manage digital phone call services this fall. Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty Images Criminal groups have been sending threatening messages in the past couple of months to companies that manage broadband phone services all over the world, promising they'll flood the digital phone lines with traffic and take them offline unless the targets pay a ransom. What those extortionists have discovered is that the number of phone calls that take place at least partially over the internet has quietly and dramatically increased in recent years — and there's a lot at stake when major providers go down. Like landline providers, companies that manage digital phone calls, also known as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services, are required to transmit audio in real time, facilitating personal, business and even emergency calls. It's probably a bigger part of our lives than many people realize. It's much cheaper and often more accessible and scalable, a staple of working from home during the coronavirus pandemic. Small companies and people living overseas might have been using purely digital phone lines for years to reach customers, friends and family abroad. Large carriers and telecommunication companies often use VoIP to handle calls or connections between providers, while smaller carriers are routing tens of thousands of simultaneous calls over the internet. Call center compani...