Stuxnet Worm
Stuxnet is a computer worm that was originally aimed at Iran’s nuclear facilities and has since mutated and spread to other industrial and energy-producing facilities.
Fanny Worm
Fanny is a computer worm created by the Equation group in 2008 and distributed throughout the Middle East and Asia.
Slowloris DDOS Attack
Slowloris is a type of denial of service attack tool invented by Robert “RSnake” Hansen which allows a single machine to take down another the machine’s web server with minimal bandwidth and side effects on unrelated services and ports.
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Silex malware
A new malware known as Silex is bringing smart devices to their knees. The Silex malware, according to ZDNet, ruins smart devices by gaining access to and destroying a device’s storage, eliminating its firewall and removing its network configuration. From here, the device stops working.
MDS-Micro architectural Data Sampling
MDS is a family of vulnerabilities in different (related) components of the processor. Unlike Meltdown, MDS doesn’t allow an attacker to directly control the target memory address from which they would like to leak data. Instead, MDS is a form of “sampling” attack in which an attacker can leverage cache side-channel analysis to repeatedly measure
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