Cybercrime
Active since at least 2022, NightmareStresser was one of the longest-running DDoS-for-hire services in the world.
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Cybercrime
The DDoS attack caused a major outage, but Mastodon mitigated it within a few hours.
Cybercrime
A pro-Iran hacker group has taken credit for the attack on Bluesky, which appears to have lasted 24 hours.
Cybercrime
Authorities in 21 countries participated in a coordinated action against DDoS-for-hire services.
Malware & Threats
Focused on persistence, the botnet does not engage in widespread infection and avoids blacklisted IPs and critical infrastructure entities.
Network Security
Akamai warns that Layer 7 DDoS, API abuse and AI-powered attacks are merging into coordinated, multi-vector campaigns that are harder to detect and defend...
Cyberwarfare
Both sides conduct hacking and other attacks, including the deployment of wiper malware, DDoS, and disruptions to critical infrastructure.
Cybercrime
The cyberattack disrupted information and booking systems and lasted for several hours.
Malware & Threats
The 2-million-device-strong botnet allows monetization through DDoS attacks, app installs, and the selling of proxy bandwidth.
Cybercrime
Central computer systems at French national postal service La Poste were knocked offline Monday in DDoS attack.
Cybercrime
A cyberattack knocked France’s national postal service offline, blocking and delaying package deliveries and online payments.
Malware & Threats
Linked to the Aisuru IoT botnet, Kimwolf was seen launching over 1.7 billion DDoS attack commands and increasing its C&C domain’s popularity.
Cybercrime
Cloudflare recently mitigated a new record-breaking Aisuru attack that peaked at 14.1 Bpps.
Cybercrime
Microsoft said the DDoS attack was aimed at an endpoint in Australia and reached 15.72 Tbps and 3.64 Bpps.
Network Security
The attack was aimed at a European network infrastructure company and it has been linked to the Aisuru botnet.
Malware & Threats
The botnet’s operators provide customers with access to an infected network of Docker containers so they can conduct DDoS attacks.
Network Security
Part of a wave of DDoS attacks that lasted for weeks, the assault was a UDP flood, originating from several IoT and cloud providers.
Cybercrime
The Arch Linux Project has been targeted in a DDoS attack that disrupted its website, repository, and forums.
Cybercrime
The US Department of Justice has announced the takedown of the RapperBot botnet and charges against its American administrator.
Vulnerabilities
The new DDoS attack vector, which involves HTTP/2 implementation flaws, has been compared to Rapid Reset.
Artificial Intelligence
Debates over the plausibility of these doomsday scenarios have heated up since several executives endorsed slowing the technology’s development for safety reasons.
Vulnerabilities
CISO Conversations
Data Protection
IonQ’s new single processor quantum error decoder minimizes the classical computing overhead in quantum error correction.
Artificial Intelligence
Vulnerabilities
Vulnerabilities
