Cloudflare’s Q1 2025 DDoS Threat Report indicates a staggering 358% year-over-year increase in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, totaling 20.5 million. Germany emerged as the most affected country, with gaming and telecommunications sectors among the primary targets. According to Cloudflare’s recent threat report, the digital landscape faced an unprecedented…
Recent data reports indicate a troubling rise in adversary-in-the-middle attacks, which have become increasingly sophisticated and prevalent. In 2022 alone, a specific group executed a series of attacks that compromised over 10,000 credentials from 137 organizations. Notably, the attack led to a security breach involving Twilio, a well-known authentication provider.…
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Geo Focus: Asia Malware Operating in Memory Disguises Itself, Evading Endpoint Detection Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • April 15, 2025 Image: Shutterstock A Chinese state-sponsored hacking group has resumed its activities with a new campaign utilizing a memory-resident remote…
11 Cybersecurity Stocks Underperform Amid Market Turmoil Following Trump’s Tariff Announcement Michael Novinson (@MichaelNovinson) • April 3, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump announces tariffs in the White House Rose Garden on Wednesday. (Image: White House) The cybersecurity sector experienced substantial setbacks in the stock market on Thursday, as major players…
Over the past year, there have been a staggering 502 security incidents across major platforms, including 48 categorized as high-risk, leading to a combined total of 955 hours of significant and critical interruptions—equivalent to an astonishing 120 business days. These findings come from ‘The DevOps Threats Unwrapped’ report, compiled by…
On Monday, the social media platform X experienced a series of intermittent outages, which owner Elon Musk attributed to what he described as a “massive cyberattack.” In an initial post on X, Musk indicated that the attack was executed by “either a large, coordinated group and/or a country.” Shortly after,…
According to a new forecast from Gartner, the acceleration of GenAI adoption poses heightened data breach risks. (Credit: Shutterstock) A recent forecast from Gartner predicts that AI-related data breaches stemming from the cross-border misuse of generative AI (GenAI) could exceed 40% by 2027. The firm asserts that the swift growth…
This week in cybersecurity began with significant developments, including the abrupt shutdown of TikTok for users in the United States late Saturday night, as the deadline approached for Apple and Google to comply with a government mandate to withdraw the popular video-sharing app from their platforms. Despite the temporary ban,…
Cloudflare has successfully mitigated a staggering 5.6 terabits per second (Tbps) DDoS attack, setting a new record and underscoring the escalating threat posed by hyper-volumetric assaults. The incident, attributed to a botnet variant of Mirai, involved approximately 13,000 Internet of Things (IoT) devices and targeted an East Asian Internet Service…
