A massive brute force attack involving 2.8 million IP addresses is targeting network security devices worldwide, primarily focusing on equipment from Palo Alto Networks, Ivanti, and SonicWall. The campaign, originating mainly from Brazil and other countries, uses compromised routers and Io...
Cloudflare mitigated a record-breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack targeting an Eastern Asian ISP, using over 13,000 IoT devices in a Mirai-variant botnet. The incident highlights 2024's dramatic surge in DDoS attacks, with a 53% increase from 2023 and significant growth in high-volume attacks ex...
A record-breaking DDoS attack reaching 5.6 Tbps targeted an East Asian ISP, successfully mitigated by Cloudflare's systems. The Mirai-based botnet attack exemplifies a dramatic surge in hyper-volumetric threats, with Q4 2024 showing 1,885% growth in attacks exceeding 1Tbps. This trend of b...
Two new botnets, Ficora (a Mirai variant) and Capsaicin (a Kaiten variant), are actively exploiting vulnerabilities in outdated D-Link routers through the HNAP interface. These botnets target specific models like DIR-645 and DIR-806, primarily focusing on DDoS attacks. Both malware strains...
