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20.5 Million DDoS Barrage Shattered Records Leading Attack Fired Off 4.8 Billion Packets

Cloudflare's latest DDoS Threat Report for the first quarter of 2025 reveals that the company mitigated a record-shattering 20.5 million Distributed Denial of Service...

New Rust-Based Botnet Hijacks Routers to Inject Remote Commands

A new malware named "RustoBot" has been discovered exploiting vulnerabilities in various router models to gain unauthorized access and initiate Distributed Denial of Service...

New IoT Botnet Launching Large-Scale DDoS attacks Hijacking IoT Devices

Large-scale DDoS attack commands sent from an IoT botnet's C&C server targeting Japan and other countries since late 2024. These commands targeted various companies,...

Hackers Exploit Linux SSH Servers Using Screen & hping3 Tools With “cShell” Bot

The AhnLab Security Intelligence Center (ASEC) has detected a new strain of malware targeting poorly protected Linux SSH servers. This malware, named "cShell," exploits existing...

GorillaBot Emerged As King For DDoS Attacks With 300,000+ Commands

The newly emerged Gorilla Botnet has exhibited unprecedented activity, launching over 300,000 DDoS attacks against targets in over 100 countries between September 4 and...

Record Breaking DDoS Attack 419 TB of Malicious Traffic Within 24-Hours

A record-breaking Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack unleashed 419 terabytes of malicious traffic over 24 hours. This unprecedented event, which began at 8:05...

How Do You Protect Your APIs From DDoS Attacks?

Today, DDoS attacks stand out as the most widespread cyber threat, extending their impact to APIs.  When successfully executed, these attacks can cripple a system,...

Ddostf DDoS Malware Attacking MySQL Servers in Windows Environments

Researchers found that vulnerable MySQL servers are being deployed with the Ddostf DDoS bot, which is capable of launching Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)...