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German Police Disrupt DDoS-for-Hire Platform dstat[.]cc; Suspects Arrested
German law enforcement authorities have announced the disruption of a criminal service called dstat[.]cc that made it possible for other…
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Microsoft Warns of Chinese Botnet Exploiting Router Flaws for Credential Theft
Microsoft has revealed that a Chinese threat actor it tracks as Storm-0940 is leveraging a botnet called Quad7 to orchestrate…
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Notorious Hacker Group TeamTNT Launches New Cloud Attacks for Crypto Mining
The infamous cryptojacking group known as TeamTNT appears to be readying for a new large-scale campaign targeting cloud-native environments for…
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U.S. Charges Two Sudanese Brothers for Record 35,000 DDoS Attacks
Federal prosecutors in the U.S. have charged two Sudanese brothers with running a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet for hire that…
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Experts Warn of Critical Unpatched Vulnerability in Linear eMerge E3 Systems
Cybersecurity security researchers are warning about an unpatched vulnerability in Nice Linear eMerge E3 access controller systems that could allow…
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New Gorilla Botnet Launches Over 300,000 DDoS Attacks Across 100 Countries
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new botnet malware family called Gorilla (aka GorillaBot) that is a variant of the leaked…
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Cloudflare Thwarts Largest-Ever 3.8 Tbps DDoS Attack Targeting Global Sectors
Cloudflare has disclosed that it mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 3.8 terabits per second (Tbps)…
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New Cryptojacking Attack Targets Docker API to Create Malicious Swarm Botnet
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new cryptojacking campaign targeting the Docker Engine API with the goal of co-opting the instances…
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Chinese Hackers Infiltrate U.S. Internet Providers in Cyber Espionage Campaign
Nation-state threat actors backed by Beijing broke into a “handful” of U.S. internet service providers (ISPs) as part of a…
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Necro Android Malware Found in Popular Camera and Browser Apps on Play Store
Altered versions of legitimate Android apps associated with Spotify, WhatsApp, and Minecraft have been used to deliver a new version…
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