OVHcloud successfully mitigated a record-breaking DDoS attack with a packet rate of 840 million packets per second. The attack originated from compromised MikroTik network devices, which were used to generate high packet rates.
The international law enforcement operation, Operation Morpheus, led to the takedown of 593 Cobalt Strike servers used by cybercriminals. This action was a collaborative effort involving multiple countries and private partners.
Microsoft has revealed two security flaws in Rockwell Automation PanelView Plus that could be weaponized by remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code and trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. “The [remote code execution] vulnerability in PanelView Plus involves two custom classes that can be abused to upload and load a malicious DLL into the device,” […]
Over 384,000 websites, including those of major companies and government entities, are still linking to the polyfill[.]io code library that was recently acquired by a Chinese firm and used to perform a supply chain attack.
The Cy-Xplorer 2024 report by Orange Cyberdefense reveals a significant rise in cyber extortion, with 60 ransomware groups affecting 4374 victims from Q1 2023 to Q1 2024. SMBs are targeted 4.2 times more than larger enterprises.
Researchers at Recorded Future’s Insikt Group analyzed infostealer malware logs captured between February 2021 and February 2024. They cross-referenced the credentials with 20 known CSAM domains, identifying 3,324 unique username-password pairs.
Twilio has confirmed that an unsecured API endpoint allowed threat actors to access phone numbers of millions of Authy multi-factor authentication users, potentially making them vulnerable to SMS phishing and SIM swapping attacks.
Brazil’s data protection authority, Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados (ANPD), has temporarily banned Meta from processing users’ personal data to train the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. The ANPD said it found “evidence of processing of personal data based on inadequate legal hypothesis, lack of transparency, limitation of the rights of data subjects, and […]
A coordinated law enforcement operation codenamed MORPHEUS has felled close to 600 servers that were used by cybercriminal groups and were part of an attack infrastructure associated with the Cobalt Strike. The crackdown targeted older, unlicensed versions of the Cobalt Strike red teaming framework between June 24 and 28, according to Europol. Of the 690 […]