A Brazilian tech firm that specializes in protecting networks from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has been enabling a botnet responsible for an extended campaign of massive DDoS attacks against other …
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Feds Disrupt IoT Botnets Behind Huge DDoS Attacks – Krebs on Security
by David Walker
The U.S. Justice Department joined authorities in Canada and Germany in dismantling the online infrastructure behind four highly disruptive botnets that compromised more than three million Internet of Things (IoT) …
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149 Hacktivist DDoS Attacks Hit 110 Organizations in 16 Countries After Middle East Conflict
by David Walker
Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a surge in retaliatory hacktivist activity following the U.S.-Israel coordinated military campaign against Iran, codenamed Epic Fury and Roaring Lion. “The hacktivist threat in the …
Researchers warn that a critical vulnerability patched this week in BeyondTrust Remote Support is being exploited in the wild to compromise self-hosted deployments, including Bomgar remote support appliances, which included …
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Automated FortiGate Attacks Exploit FortiCloud SSO to Alter Firewall Configurations
by David Walker
Ravie LakshmananJan 22, 2026Network Security / Vulnerability Cybersecurity company Arctic Wolf has warned of a “new cluster of automated malicious activity” that involves unauthorized firewall configuration changes on Fortinet FortiGate …
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Transparent Tribe Launches New RAT Attacks Against Indian Government and Academia
by David Walker
The threat actor known as Transparent Tribe has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting Indian governmental, academic, and strategic entities with a remote access trojan (RAT) that …
The Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) zero-day attacks, which began last spring and lasted well into the summer as attackers took advantage of patching lag, were one of the top …
SonicWall Wednesday disclosed a zero-day vulnerability impacting its SMA1000 access platform that is under active exploitation via chained attacks. CVE-2025-40602 is a medium-severity local privilege escalation vulnerability in SonicWall’s SMA1000 …
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Researchers Uncover 30+ Flaws in AI Coding Tools Enabling Data Theft and RCE Attacks
by David Walker
Dec 06, 2025Ravie LakshmananAI Security / Vulnerability Over 30 security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in various artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) that combine prompt injection primitives with legitimate …
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned of “ongoing intrusions” from Chinese nation-state actors deploying the Brickstorm backdoor in organizations’ VMware vSphere environments. In an alert published Thursday, …
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