Attacks & Breaches
Cloudflare Mitigates Largest HTTP DDoS Attack on Record
Cloudflare successfully mitigated a massive hyper-volumetric DDoS attack that peaked at over 71 million requests per second (RPS), making it the largest reported HTTP...
New Variant of ESXiArgs Ransomware Cannot be Decrypted with Recovery Script
In a constant arms race between cybercriminals and cybersecurity experts, the ransomware group behind the massive attack on ESXi Virtual Machines (VMs) has developed...
eCommerce Security: Accidental Data Leaks Put Online Stores at Risk
eCommerce security company Sansec has conducted a study of 2,037 online stores, which revealed that 12.3 percent of them are inadvertently exposing compressed files...
Namecheap Email Account Breached, Leading to Flood of Phishing Emails
On Sunday night, the email account of Namecheap, a domain registrar, was breached, resulting in a flood of phishing emails that targeted MetaMask and...
Russian Hacktivist Group Killnet Targets NATO in DDoS Attacks
Russian hacktivist group Killnet has launched a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against NATO, causing temporary disruption to some of the...
SecurityScorecard Publishes List of Proxy IPs to Block Killnet DDoS Bot
SecurityScorecard's researchers have published a list of proxy IPs used by the pro-Russia group, Killnet, with the intent of interfering with their operation and...
Toyota Supplier Management Network Hacked
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A security researcher has claimed to have gained access to sensitive information associated with around 3,000 suppliers and 14,000 users worldwide by compromising Toyota's...
PixPirate: Malware Stealing Banking Passwords
Introduction
The Central Bank of Brazil has introduced Pix, an instant payment platform that has quickly gained popularity with over 100 million registered accounts....
MalVirt Loaders and Formbook: A New Threat to Cybersecurity
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A new cluster of virtualized .NET malware loaders known as "MalVirt" has been discovered by SentinelLabs. The loaders are disseminated via malvertising attacks and...
Massive Ransomware Campaign Targeting VMware ESXi Servers Worldwide
The Italian National Cybersecurity Agency (ACN) has issued a warning about a large-scale ransomware campaign targeting VMware ESXi servers worldwide, including Italian systems. The...
PeopleConnect Confirms Data Breach Affecting Millions of TruthFinder and Instant Checkmate Customers
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PeopleConnect, the owners of the TruthFinder and Instant Checkmate background check services, has confirmed a data breach after hackers leaked a 2019 backup database...
Vice Media Data Breach Exposes Personal and Financial Information of Over 1,700 Individuals
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Media organizations have become a frequent target for hackers due to the vast amounts of information they store on both subscribers and employees.
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