ShadowPad Malware is Becoming a Favorite Choice of Chinese Espionage Groups

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ShadowPad, an infamous Windows backdoor that allows attackers to download further malicious modules or steal data, has been put to use by five different Chinese threat clusters since 2017. “The …

Cloudflare mitigated one of the largest DDoS attack involving 17.2 million rps

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Web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare on Thursday disclosed that it mitigated the largest ever volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack recorded to date. The attack, launched via …

Critical Flaw Found in Older Cisco Small Business Routers Won’t Be Fixed

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A critical vulnerability in Cisco Small Business Routers will not be patched by the networking equipment giant, since the devices reached end-of-life in 2019. Tracked as CVE-2021-34730 (CVSS score: 9.8), …

Mozi IoT Botnet Now Also Targets Netgear, Huawei, and ZTE Network Gateways

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Mozi, a peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet known to target IoT devices, has gained new capabilities that allow it to achieve persistence on network gateways manufactured by Netgear, Huawei, and ZTE, according …

Researchers Find New Evidence Linking Diavol Ransomware to TrickBot Gang

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details about an early development version of a nascent ransomware strain called Diavol that has been linked to threat actors behind the infamous TrickBot syndicate. The …

BadAlloc Flaw Affects BlackBerry QNX Used in Millions of Cars and Medical Devices

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A major vulnerability affecting older versions of BlackBerry’s QNX Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) could allow malicious actors to cripple and gain control of a variety of products, including cars, medical, …