Cloudflare mitigated one of the largest DDoS attack involving 17.2 million rps
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare on Thursday disclosed that it mitigated the largest ever volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack recorded to date.
The attack,...
Unveiled: SUNSPOT Malware Was Used to Inject SolarWinds Backdoor
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
As the investigation into the SolarWinds supply-chain attack continues, cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a third malware strain that was deployed into the build environment to inject the...
FreakOut! Ongoing Botnet Attack Exploiting Recent Linux Vulnerabilities
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
An ongoing malware campaign has been found exploiting recently disclosed vulnerabilities in network-attached storage (NAS) devices running on Linux systems to co-opt the machines into an IRC...
WIRTE Hacker Group Targets Government, Law, Financial Entities in Middle East
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Government, diplomatic entities, military organizations, law firms, and financial institutions primarily located in the Middle East have been targeted as part of a stealthy malware campaign as...
Meet Borat RAT, a New Unique Triple Threat
By: The Hacker News
Atlanta-based cyber risk intelligence company, Cyble discovered a new Remote Access Trojan (RAT) malware. What makes this particular RAT malware distinct enough to be named after...
Kaseya Releases Patches for Flaws Exploited in Widespread Ransomware Attack
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Florida-based software vendor Kaseya on Sunday rolled out urgent updates to address critical security vulnerabilities in its Virtual System Administrator (VSA) solution that was used as a...
Researchers Uncover Obfuscated Malicious Code in PyPI Python Packages
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Feb 10, 2023Ravie LakshmananSupply Chain / Software Security
Four different rogue packages in the Python Package Index (PyPI) have been found to carry out a number of malicious actions,...
Winter Vivern APT Targets European Government Entities with Zimbra Vulnerability
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Mar 31, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / APT
The advanced persistent threat (APT) actor known as Winter Vivern is now targeting officials in Europe and the U.S. as part of...
RedZei Chinese Scammers Targeting Chinese Students in the U.K.
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Jan 02, 2023Ravie LakshmananOnline Scam / Cybersecurity
Chinese international students in the U.K. have been targeted by persistent Chinese-speaking scammers for over a year as part of an activity...
Chinese Hackers Targeting European Entities with New MQsTTang Backdoor
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Mar 03, 2023Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Cyber Attack
The China-aligned Mustang Panda actor has been observed using a hitherto unseen custom backdoor called MQsTTang as part of an ongoing...
