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Man typing on keyboard next to a robot showing Russia’s FSB building a massive IoT botnet capable of running nation-state DDoS attacks
Cyber SecurityNews

Nation-State DDoS Attacks May Be the “New Normal”; Leaked Documents Reveal Russia’s FSB Is Seeking to Build a Massive IoT Botnet

April 3, 2020
Stolen documents from Russia’s FSB indicate that the country is building an IoT botnet capable of gigantic DDoS attacks by rounding up millions of poorly-secured devices.
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Hacker working on laptop showing Botnet owner reveals Telnet access credentials for over half a million devices
Cyber SecurityNews

Botnet Owner Reveals Telnet Access Credentials for Over Half a Million Devices

January 31, 2020
Owner of a botnet has leaked the access credentials for more than 515,000 servers and claimed they were changing business models to make use of cloud service providers instead.
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Image of robot leader commanding a group of robots signifying how IoT botnet using DDoS attack can cripple the entire internet
Cyber SecurityInsights

Next IoT Botnet DDoS Attack Could Bring Down the Entire Internet

October 31, 2017
Researchers recently uncovered an IoT botnet that has infected more than 1M organizations. Can we survive the next DDoS attack and avoid a botnet apocalypse?
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Open padlock on the computer keyboard showing Microsoft and Cyber Command takedown of TrickBot botnet
Cyber SecurityNews

US Cyber Command Teams With Microsoft To Limit TrickBot Botnet Ahead of Expected Election Interference

October 21, 2020
The US Cyber Command is expecting the TrickBot botnet to be involved in election interference attempts, and is actively running persistent operations against it along with Microsoft.
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Yandex application icons on a mobile phone screen showing DDoS attack by Meris botnet
Cyber SecurityNews

Russian Internet Giant Yandex Wards off the Largest Botnet DDoS Attack in History

September 16, 2021
Yandex warded off the largest DDoS attack in history recorded at 22 million requests per second and attributed to a new botnet Meris that exploits MikroTik devices.
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Image of a massive wave engulfing a city signifying the intensity surge in DDoS attack trend
Cyber SecurityNews

DDoS Attack Trend: Numbers Dip as Intensity Surge

October 4, 2017
Imperva's Q2 2017 Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report highlights a disturbing new DDoS attack trend of repeat assaults and increased assault intensity.
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AT&T logo in front of building showing botnet targeting VoIP servers
Cyber SecurityNews

Chinese Researchers Discover EwDoor Botnet Affecting up to 100,000 AT&T VoIP Servers

December 13, 2021
Botnet discovered by Chinese researchers introduced a backdoor and a web shell on compromised AT&T VoIP servers, mostly in the US, for DDoS attacks and data exfiltration.
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Virus background against digital Russian flag showing Russian GRU botnet malware
Cyber SecurityNews

The FBI Disrupted Russian GRU Botnet Malware Through a Court Order Before It Could Be Weaponized

April 15, 2022
The operation disrupted Russian GRU control over infected devices by removing Cyclops Blink botnet malware from the infected WatchGuard Firebox devices used as command-and-control (C2) servers.
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Red robot among black robots showing the hidden dangers of malicious bots
Cyber SecurityInsights

The Hidden Dangers of Malicious Bots

March 13, 2020
Learn about the top five attacks that use malicious bots and find out how organizations can keep the harmful automated traffic out of their companies sites and away from their customers.
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Man typing keyboard with virus warning on screen showing cryptojacking botnet
Cyber SecurityNews

Google Disrupts Glupteba Cryptojacking Botnet With Removal of Hosted Ads, Documents and Accounts, & Notifications to Web Hosts

December 15, 2021
Pernicious botnet used for cryptojacking has taken a major blow thanks to Google. Glupteba has been operating for some months and was thought to be compromising thousands of people per day at its peak.
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Virtual locks on laptop screen showing Europe and post quantum computing

Why Europe Needs to Prioritize the Switch to Quantum-Safe Encryption

Police car siren flashing blue in the night showing third-party data breach

Greater Manchester Police Investigating a Third-Party Data Breach From a Ransomware Attack

Locks on laptop screen showing Iranian hackers target defense organizations with password spraying attacks

Iranian Hackers Use Password Spray Attacks to Compromise Defense Organizations, Pharmaceutical Firms

Jet engine from Airbus showing data breach involving compromised account

Airbus Data Breach from a Partner Airline’s Compromised Account Leaks Confidential Information

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