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 FastNetMon today announced it detected a record-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeting the website of a leading DDoS scrubbing vendor in Western Europe. The attack peaked at 1.5 billion packets per second (1.5 Gpps), making it one of the largest packet-rate floods ever publicly disclosed. The malicious traffic was primarily a UDP flood launched from […]

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A new wave of macOS-targeted malware has emerged under the radar—despite employing advanced process reconnaissance and maintaining successful notarization status for years. Jamf Threat Labs recently uncovered a developer-signed sample on VirusTotal that used sophisticated endpoint profiling and established persistence using several different mechanisms. The malware, dubbed ChillyHell, has evaded popular antivirus detections even as […]

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FastNetMon, a prominent provider of DDoS detection solutions, announced this week that it had identified and helped mitigate a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The assault targeted a major DDoS scrubbing vendor located in Western Europe, pushing packet-forwarding rates to an astonishing 1.5 billion packets per second (1.5 Gpps). This incident stands as one of […]

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Hush Security has raised $11 million in seed funding led by Battery Ventures and YL Ventures. As agentic AI expands, Hush replaces legacy vaults and secrets across the enterprise with just-in-time, policy-driven access controls enforced at runtime. This approach eliminates the operational and security risks of traditional vaults and secrets managers, delivering a faster, safer way to secure machine-to-machine access. Gartner predicts that 40% of organizations will adopt a secretless approach by 2027 as the … More →

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A sophisticated campaign targeting Meta advertisers through fake AI-powered ad optimization tools has been uncovered, with cybercriminals deploying malicious Chrome extensions to steal credentials and hijack business accounts. Cybereason Security Services has identified an evolving malicious Chrome extension campaign that specifically targets Meta (Facebook/Instagram) advertisers through a deceptive platform called “Madgicx Plus.” This fake AI-driven […]

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The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has issued an urgent warning about a critical vulnerability in SonicWall firewall devices that is being actively exploited by threat actors. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-40766, affects SonicOS management access and SSLVPN functionality across multiple generations of SonicWall devices. Critical Vulnerability Details The improper access control vulnerability carries a […]

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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York has charged Volodymyr Viktorovich Tymoshchuk, a Ukrainian national known as deadforz, Boba, msfv, and farnetwork, for his role in administering LockerGoga, MegaCortex, and Nefilim ransomware operations. The indictment alleges that Tymoshchuk managed attacks against more than 250 companies in the U.S. and hundreds of […]

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The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has issued a critical alert regarding a severe access control vulnerability in SonicWall products that is being actively exploited in attacks. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-40766, affects multiple generations of SonicWall firewalls and carries a critical CVSS score of 9.3, highlighting the significant risk it poses to organizations. The […]

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