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RSOCKS commandeered millions of devices in order to offer proxy services used to mask malicious traffic.

By Owais Sultan In this technological era, the world has been converted into a global village with everything connected to everything.… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 5 Reasons You Should Learn About Cyber Security

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday disclosed that it took down the infrastructure associated with a Russian botnet known as RSOCKS in collaboration with law enforcement partners in Germany, the Netherlands, and the U.K. The botnet, operated by a sophisticated cybercrime organization, is believed to have ensnared millions of internet-connected devices, including Internet of Things (

Sock it to ‘em

By Deeba Ahmed The DDoS attack originated from 121 countries and was powered by a small botnet of only 5,067 hacked… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Cloudflare Thwarted Largest Ever HTTPS DDoS Attack

The number and power of DDoS attacks keep growing at an incredible rate year over year. Recently a new HTTPS DDoS attack record was broken. The post Record breaking HTTPS DDoS attack appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

The Japanese-language Panchan botnet has been discovered stealing SSH keys from Linux servers across Asia, Europe, and North America, with a focus on telecom and education providers.

A new Golang-based peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet has been spotted actively targeting Linux servers in the education sector since its emergence in March 2022. Dubbed Panchan by Akamai Security Research, the malware "utilizes its built-in concurrency features to maximize spreadability and execute malware modules" and "harvests SSH keys to perform lateral movement." <!--adsense--> The feature-packed

Cloudflare on Tuesday disclosed that it had acted to prevent a record-setting 26 million request per second (RPS) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack last week, making it the largest HTTPS DDoS attack detected to date. The web performance and security company said the attack was directed against an unnamed customer website using its Free plan and emanated from a "powerful" botnet of

Microsoft has warned of APT groups and ransomware authors exploiting the now patched Confluence vulnerability. We take a look at the dangers. The post “Multiple adversaries” exploiting Confluence vulnerability, warns Microsoft appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.