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Wynncraft, one of the largest Minecraft servers, was recently hit by a 2.5 Tbps distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.

A pro-Russian group created a crowdsourced project called DDOSIA that pays volunteers launching distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against western entities.

American business magazine Fast Company reached out to its Executive Board members this week to let them know their personal information was not stolen in a September 27 cyberattack that forced it to shut down its website.

Hackers are more frequently using social engineering attacks to gain access to corporate credentials and breach large networks. One component of these attacks that is becoming more popular with the rise of multi-factor authentication is a technique called MFA Fatigue.

Security researchers have discovered an npm timing attack that reveals the names of private packages so threat actors can release malicious clones publicly to trick developers into using them instead.

Revolut is sending out notices of a data breach to a small percentage of impacted users, informing them of a security incident where an unauthorized third party accessed internal data.

A phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform named Caffeine makes it easy for threat actors to launch attacks, featuring an open registration process allowing anyone to jump in and start their own phishing campaigns.

Security researchers reveal previously unknown malware used by the cyber espionage hacking group POLONIUM, threat actors who appear to target Israeli organizations exclusively.

Microsoft announced today that IT admins can now configure any Windows system still receiving security updates to automatically block brute force attacks targeting local administrator accounts via a group policy.

Microsoft is investigating reports of a new zero-day bug abused to hack Exchange servers which were later used to launch Lockbit ransomware attacks.