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U.S. Takes Down IPStorm Botnet, Russian-Moldovan Mastermind Pleads Guilty
The U.S. government on Tuesday announced the takedown of the IPStorm botnet proxy network and its infrastructure, as the Russian…
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Alert: OracleIV DDoS Botnet Targets Public Docker Engine APIs to Hijack Containers
Publicly-accessible Docker Engine API instances are being targeted by threat actors as part of a campaign designed to co-opt the…
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Experts Expose Farnetwork’s Ransomware-as-a-Service Business Model
Cybersecurity researchers have unmasked a prolific threat actor known as farnetwork, who has been linked to five different ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS)…
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New Jupyter Infostealer Version Emerges with Sophisticated Stealth Tactics
An updated version of an information stealer malware known as Jupyter has resurfaced with “simple yet impactful changes” that aim…
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Mysterious Kill Switch Disrupts Mozi IoT Botnet Operations
The unexpected drop in malicious activity connected with the Mozi botnet in August 2023 was due to a kill switch…
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Record-Breaking 100 Million RPS DDoS Attack Exploits HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Flaw
Cloudflare on Thursday said it mitigated thousands of hyper-volumetric HTTP distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that exploited a recently disclosed flaw…
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HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited to Launch Record DDoS Attacks
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloudflare, and Google on Tuesday said they took steps to mitigate record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks…
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Citrix Devices Under Attack: NetScaler Flaw Exploited to Capture User Credentials
A recently disclosed critical flaw in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway devices is being exploited by threat actors to conduct…
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PEACHPIT: Massive Ad Fraud Botnet Powered by Millions of Hacked Android and iOS
An ad fraud botnet dubbed PEACHPIT leveraged an army of hundreds of thousands of Android and iOS devices to generate…
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Researchers Raise Red Flag on P2PInfect Malware with 600x Activity Surge
The peer-to-peer (P2) worm known as P2PInfect has witnessed a surge in activity since late August 2023, witnessing a 600x…
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