Cloudflare, the web infrastructure company, stopped an unprecedented DDoS attack on Monday with a record-breaking peak of over 71 million requests per second. This historic “hyper-volumetric” attack was the largest HTTP DDoS attack on record, surpassing the previous 46 million RPS attack that was mitigated by Google Cloud in June 2022. These massive attacks targeted

Reddit, the well-known social news aggregation platform, has fallen victim to a vicious and calculated phishing attack. On February 5th, 2023, the attackers targeted Reddit’s employees with plausible-sounding prompts that redirected them to a fake website that appeared to be Reddit’s intranet portal. The sole purpose of this deceitful act was to steal credentials and

A Russia-affiliated adversary has been caught utilizing new information-stealing malware in cyberattacks aimed at Ukraine. Named Graphiron by Symantec, a subsidiary of Broadcom, the malware is the work of an espionage group known as Nodaria, which is monitored by the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) under the label UAC-0056. According to the Symantec

On February 7, 2023, a Russian national, Denis Mihaqlovic Dubnikov, admitted to money laundering and concealing the source of funds obtained through Ryuk ransomware attacks in a U.S. court. Dubnikov, who was arrested in Amsterdam in November 2021 and later extradited from the Netherlands in August 2022, will be sentenced on April 11, 2023. According

The Ukrainian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) has issued a warning about ongoing cyber attacks targeting state authorities in the country that use a legitimate remote access software named Remcos. The widespread phishing campaign has been traced back to a threat actor known as UAC-0050, and the agency has described the nature of the attacks