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The vulnerability in question is CVE-2024-4577, which allows an attacker to remotely execute malicious commands on Windows systems using Chinese and Japanese language locales. The disclosure comes as Cloudflare said it recorded a 20% year-over-year increase in DDoS attacks in the second quarter of 2024, and that it mitigated 8.5 million DDoS attacks during the first six months.

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French cloud computing firm OVHcloud said it mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in April 2024 that reached a packet rate of 840 million packets per second...

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new botnet called Zergeca that's capable of conducting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Written in Golang, the botnet is so named for its...

Analyzing some of those attacks revealed the extensive use of core network devices, particularly Mikrotik models, making the attacks more impactful and challenging to detect and stop. Record-breaking DDoS. Earlier this year, OVHcloud had to mitigate a massive packet rate attack that reached 840 Mpps, surpassing the previous record holder, an 809 Mpps DDoS attack targeting a European bank, which Akamai mitigated in June 2020.

Today's DDoS attacks are not what they were even a few years ago, and we continue to see DDoS attacks that are framed as the largest in history. Given the rising number of DDoS attacks each year and the reality that DDoS attacks are frequently used in more sophisticated hacking attempts to apply maximum pressure on victims, a DDoS response plan should be included in every company's cybersecurity tool kit.

Hacktivists are conducting DDoS attacks on European political parties that represent and promote strategies opposing their interests, according to a report by Cloudflare. Cloudflare reports that it has mitigated at least three distributed denial of service attack waves on various election-related sites in the Netherlands, as well as several political parties.

The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet known as Muhstik has been observed leveraging a now-patched security flaw impacting Apache RocketMQ to co-opt susceptible servers and expand its...

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The threat actors behind the CatDDoS malware botnet have exploited over 80 known security flaws in various software over the past three months to infiltrate vulnerable devices and co-opt them into...