On June 27, 2022, Imperva mitigated a single attack with over 25.3 billion requests, setting a new record for Imperva’s application DDoS mitigation solution.

While attacks with over one million requests per second (RPS) aren’t new, we’ve previously only seen them last for several seconds to a few minutes. On June 27, Imperva successfully mitigated a strong attack that lasted more than four hours and peaked at 3.9 million RPS.

Shortly after the destructive cyberattacks on the Albanian government in mid-July, the Microsoft Detection and Response Team (DART) was engaged to lead an investigation into the attacks.

Reuters shows how Chinese hackers invaded myriad global companies, exposing entrenched weaknesses in Western cyber defenses.

Platform-abuse phishing is on the rise. We analyze how attackers use services such as website builders to host phishing pages.

A serious vulnerability affecting the eCos SDK made by Taiwanese semiconductor company Realtek could expose the networking devices of many vendors to remote attacks.

• On May 24, 2022, Cisco became aware of a potential compromise. Since that point, Cisco Security Incident Response (CSIRT) and Cisco Talos have been working to remediate.
• During the investigation, it was determined that a Cisco employee’s credentials were compromised after an attacker gained control of a personal Google account where credentials saved in the victim’s browser were being synchronized.

Researchers have found a way to use the web's basic functions to identify who visits a site—without the user detecting the hack.

Last week, Cloudflare automatically detected and mitigated a 26 million request per second DDoS attack — the largest HTTPS DDoS attack on record.

Hertzbleed attack targets power-conservation feature found on virtually all modern CPUs.

This week, immensely popular PyPI package 'ctx' has been compromised and altered to steal environment variables from its users. Additionally, a forked PHP project 'phpass' also suffered a repo-hijacking attack with the project tained with identical malicious payload.

The JFrog Security Research team identified and quickly disclosed new npm malicious packages aimed at compromising leading industrial organizations

The pictures show neatly trimmed fiber optic cables dug up from underground behind what appears to be a well-hidden grate. The apparent simplicity of the sabotage is all the more harrowing in light of how extensively it disrupted Internet service in France, experts said.

Trezor users have reported being targeted by a malicious phishing attack on April 3.

On the Effectiveness of Hardware Mitigations Against Cross-Privilege Spectre-v2 Attacks
BHI (or Spectre-BHB) is a revival of cross-privilege Spectre-v2 attacks on modern systems deploying in-hardware defenses. And we have a very neat end-to-end exploit leaking arbitrary kernel memory on modern Intel CPUs to prove it (PoC||GTFO right?).

Toyota Motor Corp said it will suspend domestic factory operations on Tuesday, losing around 13,000 cars of output, after a supplier of plastic parts and electronic components was hit by a suspected cyber attack.

Vodafone Portugal, one of the country’s leading telecommunications companies, said Tuesday it had been hacked though no confidential customer data was compromised

As a journalist working for the Arab news network Alaraby, Rania Dridi said she’s taken precautions to avoid being targeted by hackers, keeping an eye out for suspicious messages and avoiding clicking on links or opening attachments from people she doesn’t know.

Nearly a month has passed since we determined that servers hosting personal data belonging to more than 515,000 people worldwide were hacked in a sophisticated cyber-attack. We are now in a position to share some findings of our analysis of this data breach.

An exploit in the Google Docs comment feature allows hackers to easily spread malware and phishing.