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Hackers Start Selling Data Center Logins for Some of World’s Largest Corporations

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Putin set for major Ukraine war speech after Biden walks streets of Kyiv

Russian President Vladimir Putin was due to make a speech on Tuesday setting out aims for the second year of his invasion of Ukraine, a day after U.S. President Joe Biden walked central Kyiv promising to stand with Ukraine as long as it takes. Following his surprise visit to Kyiv, Biden flew to Poland and on Tuesday will give a speech on how the United States has helped rally the world to support Ukraine and stress American support for NATO’s eastern flank. Biden, in his trademark aviator sunglasses, and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in green battle fatigues, walked side-by-side to a gold-domed cathedral in Kyiv on a bright winter Monday morning pierced by the sound of air raid sirens.

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World’s largest drone maker DJI is unfazed by challenges like US blacklist

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  • DJI was formed in 2006 out of a college dorm room by its founder Frank Wang. The company currently has over 14,000 employees, 25% of which are research and development-based.
  • DJI is just one of many tech companies that has found its products used on the battlefield.
  • In December 2021, the Shenzhen-based company was placed on an investment blacklist by the U.S. government over its alleged ties to the surveillance of Uighur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region.

The world’s biggest drone maker DJI found itself embroiled in the Russia-Ukraine conflict last year.

In March, three weeks after Russia’s invasion began, a Ukrainian minister called out DJI on Twitter for being complicit in the war.

DJI is just one of many tech companies that has found its products used on the battlefield.

The Russian military allegedly used its drones on the battlefield. It includes the Mavic 3 drone, and Aeroscope, a drone-detection platform that enables users to identify the location of a drone operator. 

DJI — also known as Da Jiang Innovations — denied the allegations and insisted its products are designed for civilian use, and “do not meet military specifications.”

“We certainly don’t support their use for combat,” Adam Welsh, DJI’s Head of Global Policy, told CNBC.

“The unfortunate thing is that it’s a very reliable product. So, it’s become a product of choice, even for those who want to use a drone inappropriately.” 

DJI suspended its product sales to Russia and Ukraine in April. That suspension continues to be in place.

The company is not backing down despite challenges, and continues to aim for the skies.

DJI currently dominates more than 70% of the global drone market. According to a report by Drone Industry Insights, the market is expected to grow from $30.6 billion in 2022 to $55.8 billion by 2030.

The Shenzhen-based company was formed in 2006 out of a college dorm room by its founder Frank Wang. It started out by building drone control systems, which were sold to hobbyists building their own drones. By 2013, the company released its first ready-to-fly drone, the Phantom 1.

he DJI Mavic 3 Cine Drone in action on November 15,2021 in Guildford, England.

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DJI currently employs over…

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4 Largest Private Armies in the World – 24/7 Wall St.

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Private security companies, which employ those who have served in the armed forces or in some other security capacity, have always had a mystique, seemingly operating beyond the control of governments. Besides working for corporations, governments contract them to provide security, sometimes in hotspots. 

One such flashpoint  was Iraq, where in 2007 four Blackwater security contractors killed 14 unarmed Iraqis in Baghdad’s Nisour Square. Blackwater became a byword for unchecked private military activity. The four contractors were convicted in 2014, and President Donald Trump pardoned them in December 2020. (These are companies that changed their names after scandals.)

Given the security trends around the world, private security companies are getting bigger. To determine the world’s four largest private armies, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the Contract Security Industry White Paper from Robert H. Perry & Associates, a broker for manned guarding companies. Companies were ranked based on global revenue for the most recent year available. (Also see, the largest armies in history.)

More and more large and small companies are outsourcing their security needs to private firms. These private security companies offer a suite of services: alarms and alarm response units, licensed security guards, surveillance, airport and border patrol, security crisis management, special events security oversight, and consulting and investigations services. 

Private security companies have a presence on every continent and employ thousands of people, providing security needs to hospitals, financial institutions, chemical and petroleum manufacturers, commercial real estate firms, and local, state, and federal governments. 

Global demand for security services is forecast to rise 3.6% per year to $263 billion by 2024, according to a 2020 report from Freedonia Global Security Services. Growth will be driven by the increased in-house security outsourcing as well as an increase in electronics security offerings. 

Click here to see the 4 largest private armies in the world.

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Mantis Botnet Behind the Largest HTTPS DDoS Attack Targeting Cloudflare Customers

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Mantis Botnet

The botnet behind the largest HTTPS distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in June 2022 has been linked to a spate of attacks aimed at nearly 1,000 Cloudflare customers.

Calling the powerful botnet Mantis, the web performance and security company attributed it to more than 3,000 HTTP DDoS attacks against its users.

The most attacked industry verticals include internet and telecom, media, gaming, finance, business, and shopping, of which over 20% of the attacks targeted U.S.-based companies, followed by Russia, Turkey, France, Poland, Ukraine, the U.K., Germany, the Netherlands, and Canada.

Last month, the company said it mitigated a record-breaking DDoS attack aimed at an unnamed customer website using its Free plan that peaked at 26 million requests per second (RPS), with each node generating approximately 5,200 RPS.

The tsunami of junk traffic lasted less than 30 seconds and generated more than 212 million HTTPS requests from more than 1,500 networks in 121 countries, topped by Indonesia, the U.S., Brazil, Russia, and India.

Mantis Botnet

“The Mantis botnet operates a small fleet of approximately 5,000 bots, but with them can generate a massive force — responsible for the largest HTTP DDoS attacks we have ever observed,” Cloudflare’s Omer Yoachimik said.

Mantis stands out for a number of reasons. The first is its ability to carry out HTTPS DDoS attacks, which are expensive in nature due to the computational resources required to establish a secure TLS encrypted connection.

Secondly, unlike other traditional botnets that rely on IoT devices such as DVRs and routers, Mantis leverages hijacked virtual machines and powerful servers, equipping it with more resources.

CyberSecurity

These volumetric attacks aim to generate more traffic than the target can process, causing the victim to exhaust its resources. While adversaries have traditionally utilized UDP to launch amplification attacks, there has been a shift to newer TCP reflected amplification vectors that make use of middleboxes.

Microsoft, in May 2022, disclosed that it prevented about 175,000 UDP reflected amplification attacks over the past year that were aimed at its Azure infrastructure. It also observed a TCP reflected amplification attack…

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