Original release date: December 10, 2020<br/><h3>Summary</h3><p>This Joint Cybersecurity Advisory was coauthored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC).</p>...
command and control
cyber threats
cybersecurity
data theft
ddos
distance learning
education
it security
k-12
malware
mitigations
network security
phishing
ransomware
remote learning
social engineering
student data
trojan
video conferencing
vulnerabilities
Original release date: June 13, 2017 | Last revised: July 07, 2017
Systems Affected
Networked Systems
Overview
This joint Technical Alert (TA) is the result of analytic efforts between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). This alert...
Original release date: October 14, 2016 | Last revised: November 30, 2016
Systems Affected
Internet of Things (IoT)—an emerging network of devices (e.g., printers, routers, video cameras, smart TVs) that connect to one another via the Internet, often automatically sending and receiving data...
Original release date: June 13, 2017
Systems Affected
Networked Systems
Overview
This joint Technical Alert (TA) is the result of analytic efforts between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). This alert provides technical details on the...
Original release date: October 14, 2016
Systems Affected
Internet of Things (IoT)—an emerging network of devices (e.g., printers, routers, video cameras, smart TVs) that connect to one another via the Internet, often automatically sending and receiving data
Overview
Recently, IoT devices...
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Original release date: December 03, 2015
Systems Affected
Microsoft Windows
Overview
Dorkbot is a botnet used to steal online payment, participate in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and deliver other types of malware to victims’ computers. According to Microsoft, the family of...
Original release date: October 13, 2015
Systems Affected
Microsoft Windows
Overview
Dridex, a peer-to-peer (P2P) bank credential-stealing malware, uses a decentralized network infrastructure of compromised personal computers and web servers to execute command-and-control (C2). The United...
In this video, Nazim Lala demonstrates how to configure IP restriction for Azure Web Apps to help secure your web app and to help mitigate Denial of Service attacks against your application. This video will show what Static and Dynamic IP restrictions are and how simple it is to configure them...
Original release date: January 17, 2014 | Last revised: March 07, 2014
Systems Affected
Certain UDP protocols have been identified as potential attack vectors:
DNS
NTP
SNMPv2
NetBIOS
SSDP
CharGEN
QOTD
BitTorrent
Kad
Quake Network Protocol
Steam Protocol
Overview
A Distributed Reflective...
Original release date: January 13, 2014 | Last revised: February 05, 2014
Systems Affected
NTP servers
Overview
A Network Time Protocol (NTP) Amplification attack is an emerging form of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) that relies on the use of publically accessible NTP servers to...
Original release date: January 17, 2014 | Last revised: February 09, 2014
Systems Affected
Certain UDP protocols have been identified as potential attack vectors:
DNS
NTP
SNMPv2
NetBIOS
SSDP
CharGEN
QOTD
BitTorrent
Kad
Quake Network Protocol
Steam Protocol
Overview
A Distributed...
Original release date: January 13, 2014 | Last revised: January 14, 2014
Systems Affected
NTP servers
Overview
A Network Time Protocol (NTP) Amplification attack is an emerging form of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) that relies on the use of publically accessible NTP servers to...
Original release date: March 29, 2013
Systems Affected
Domain Name System (DNS) servers
Overview A Domain Name Server (DNS) Amplification attack is a popular form of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) that relies on the use of publically accessible open recursive DNS servers to...
Hello everyone,
Tonight, we implemented CloudFlare, which uses its own content delivery network and content processing. Were the site to go down, content would continue to be available for a number of days, even if our servers that process that data goes down. This is not the first time that we...