The CyberWire Daily Podcast 8.22.22
Ep 1646 | 8.22.22

Bogus DDoS protection pages distribute malware. Estonia deals with DDoS attacks. Roskomnadzor's Internet panopticon.And data-tampering attacks are regarded as a growing risk.

Show Notes

Bogus DDoS protection pages distribute malware. Estonia deals with DDoS attacks. Roskomnadzor's Internet panopticon. Rick Howard on the RSA Security Breach of 2011 and the Equifax breach of 2017. Caleb Barlow on what does a recession mean for cyber security venture capital and what is the impact of this on the industry? And data-tampering attacks are regarded as a growing risk.

Selected reading.

WordPress sites hacked with fake Cloudflare DDoS alerts pushing malware (BleepingComputer)

Fake DDoS Pages On WordPress Sites Lead to Drive-By-Downloads (Sucuri Blog)

Car blast kills daughter of Russian known as 'Putin's brain' (AP NEWS)

Russia blames Kyiv for killing daughter of ‘Putin’s Rasputin’, but the truth may be closer to home (The Telegraph)

Alexander Dugin's daughter killed by anti-war Russians: Former state deputy (Newsweek)

Estonia Repels Biggest Cyber-Attack Since 2007 (Infosecurity Magazine) 

Estonia's Battle Against a Deluge of DDoS Attacks (Infosecurity Magazine)

Latvia Starts Removing Soviet Monument in Challenge to Russia (Bloomberg)

Data-tampering attacks are a 'nightmare' threat that's hard to detect (Protocol)