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Hyper-Volumetric DDoS Attacks Reach Record 7.3 Tbps, Targeting Key Global Sectors (Tue, 15 Jul 2025)
Cloudflare on Tuesday said it mitigated 7.3 million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in the second quarter of 2025, a significant drop from 20.5 million DDoS attacks it fended off the previous quarter. "Overall, in Q2 2025, hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks skyrocketed," Omer Yoachimik and Jorge Pacheco said. "Cloudflare blocked over 6,500 hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks, an average of 71
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Newly Emerged GLOBAL GROUP RaaS Expands Operations with AI-Driven Negotiation Tools (Tue, 15 Jul 2025)
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation called GLOBAL GROUP that has targeted a wide range of sectors in Australia, Brazil, Europe, and the United States since its emergence in early June 2025. GLOBAL GROUP was "promoted on the Ramp4u forum by the threat actor known as '$$$,'" EclecticIQ researcher Arda Büyükkaya said. "The same actor controls
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State-Backed HazyBeacon Malware Uses AWS Lambda to Steal Data from SE Asian Governments (Tue, 15 Jul 2025)
Governmental organizations in Southeast Asia are the target of a new campaign that aims to collect sensitive information by means of a previously undocumented Windows backdoor dubbed HazyBeacon. The activity is being tracked by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 under the moniker CL-STA-1020, where "CL" stands for "cluster" and "STA" refers to "state-backed motivation." "The threat actors behind this
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Securing Agentic AI: How to Protect the Invisible Identity Access (Tue, 15 Jul 2025)
AI agents promise to automate everything from financial reconciliations to incident response. Yet every time an AI agent spins up a workflow, it has to authenticate somewhere; often with a high-privilege API key, OAuth token, or service account that defenders can’t easily see. These “invisible” non-human identities (NHIs) now outnumber human accounts in most cloud environments, and they have
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AsyncRAT's Open-Source Code Sparks Surge in Dangerous Malware Variants Across the Globe (Tue, 15 Jul 2025)
Cybersecurity researchers have charted the evolution of a widely used remote access trojan called AsyncRAT, which was first released on GitHub in January 2019 and has since served as the foundation for several other variants. "AsyncRAT has cemented its place as a cornerstone of modern malware and as a pervasive threat that has evolved into a sprawling network of forks and variants," ESET
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