Owner of ‘DownThem’ DDoS service gets 2 years in prison
Matthew Gatrel, 33, a citizen of Illinois, has been sentenced to two years in prison for operating platforms offering DDoS…
Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking HTTPS DDoS attack
Internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare said today that it mitigated a 26 million request per second distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the largest HTTPS DDoS attack…
CISA Recommends Organizations Update to the Latest Version of Google Chrome
Google last week reported seven vulnerabilities in the browser, four of which it rated as high severity.
Microsoft: Exchange servers hacked to deploy BlackCat ransomware
Microsoft says BlackCat ransomware affiliates are now attacking Microsoft Exchange servers using exploits targeting unpatched vulnerabilities. [...]
Newsom says San Francisco DA recall was ‘predictable,’ national attention on election wasn’t warranted
Gov. Gavin Newsom said he thought San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin's recall this week was "predictable" and didn't deserve…
The Week in Ransomware – June 10th 2022 – Targeting Linux
It has been relatively quiet this week with many companies and researchers at the RSA conference. However, we still had…
Symbiote Malware Poses Stealthy, Linux-Based Threat to Financial Industry
A Linux-based banking Trojan is a master at staying under the radar.
New PACMAN hardware attack targets Macs with Apple M1 CPUs
A new hardware attack targeting Pointer Authentication in Apple M1 CPUs with speculative execution enables attackers to gain arbitrary code…
Iranian hackers target energy sector with new DNS backdoor
The Iranian Lycaeum APT hacking group uses a new .NET-based DNS backdoor to conduct attacks on companies in the energy…
San Francisco crime victim celebrates recall of progressive DA: ‘A feeling of validation’
In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, a San Francisco crime victim celebrated the successful campaign to recall the…