“The majority of attacks peaked in the ballpark of 50-70 million requests per second (RPS) with the largest exceeding 71 million,” Cloudflare said, calling it a “hyper-volumetric” DDoS attack.
New findings from researchers at the security firm Sophos show how pig butchering scammers are tweaking and refining their strategies to try to ensnare more unsuspecting victims.
As part of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure spending deal signed into law last year, $1 billion was allocated to state and local governments to upgrade their cybersecurity defenses.
North Korean hackers have found a way around U.S.-imposed sanctions to launder the cryptocurrency proceeds from their heists, according to evidence discovered by blockchain analysts.
Almost 4 in 5 organizations are making cybersecurity decisions without any insight into the attackers they are facing off with, according to a report from Mandiant, a unit of Google Cloud.
Fortinet uncovered a wave of zero-day attacks targeting PyPI packages by a cybercriminal group dubbed Core1337. It has published five packages to the public repository – all designed to launch different types of attacks. All the malicious packages have similar code in the setup.py file, the only major difference between them is the webhook URL. Developers […]
A surge of phishing emails impersonating DHL and MetaMask started hitting inboxes of Namecheap customers last week, attempting to trick recipients into sharing personal information or sharing their crypto wallet’s secret recovery phrase.
Russian media reported that Alexander Khinshtein, the head of the Duma committee on information policy, announced that the Russian government is evaluating to avoid punishing hackers acting in the interests of Moscow.
A ransom note from the new ‘DarkBit’ ransomware group was left on the university’s systems, where the attackers demanded 80 Bitcoin or roughly US$ 1,745,200 to release the decryptor to the university.
OilRig APT evolved its methods to bypass security protections by adding a new backdoor to its arsenal to support its long-running espionage campaign against government organizations in the Middle East.