2023
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The removal of Qakbot from infected computers is just the first step
The Qakbot botnet has been disrupted by an international law enforcement operation that culminated last weekend, when infected computers started getting untethered from it by specially crafted FBI…
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FBI-led Operation Duck Hunt shoots down Qakbot
Totally plucked: Agents remotely roasted Windows botnet malware on victims’ machines Uncle Sam today said an international law enforcement effort dismantled Qakbot, aka QBot, a notorious botnet and…
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Qakbot botnet disrupted, malware removed from 700,000+ victim computers
The Qakbot botnet has been crippled by the US Department of Justice (DOJ): 52 of its servers have been seized and the popular malware loader has been removed…
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Tor turns to proof-of-work puzzles to defend onion network from DDoS attacks
No miners were involved in this story Tor, which stands for The Onion Router, weathered a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) storm from June last year through to May.…
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Bogus OfficeNote app delivers XLoader macOS malware
A new macOS-specific variant of the well known XLoader malware is being delivered disguised as the “OfficeNote” app. “Multiple submissions of this sample have appeared on VirusTotal throughout…
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Macs are getting compromised to act as proxy exit nodes
AdLoad, well-known malware that has been targeting systems running macOS for over half a decade, has been observed delivering a new payload that – unbeknown to the owners…
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How to accelerate and access DDoS protection services using GRE
As we entered 2023, the cybersecurity landscape witnessed an increase in sophisticated, high-volume attacks, according to Gcore. The maximum attack power rose from 600 to 800 Gbps. UDP…
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Old-school hacktivism is back because it never went away
Mysterious Team Bangladesh has carried out 846 attacks since June 2022, mostly DDoS Hacktivism may have dropped off of organization radars over the past few years, but it…
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67% of data breaches start with a single click
Technology is accelerating faster than it ever has before, giving IT and security teams more tools to fend off cybersecurity attacks from an increasingly diverse slate of bad…