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Norwegian government office buildings with network activity visualizations and DDoS attack wave patterns flooding across the scene, digital disruption evident i
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Norway's government login systems knocked offline by third DDoS attack in months

A flood of junk traffic hit the agency that runs Norway's public-sector logins and digital ID, snarling tax and citizen services since Monday morning.

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A technician in a data center cuts through a thick network cable with industrial shears, sparks flying, server racks illuminated in the background during an eme
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Zombie Cards, Cut Cables, and a Botnet: The Week's Cybercrime Stories You May Have Missed

T-Mobile physically severed a network cable to stop an active intrusion, a new Linux botnet called Evooo1Bot is spreading across hijacked servers, and Threema's encrypted messaging service was knocked offline by a DDoS attack. Here is what happened.

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Network traffic visualization showing small incoming data streams being massively amplified through CDN infrastructure, with traffic graphs spiking dramatically
Vulnerabilities

The 'CDN Tsunami' Attack Turns a Trickle of Traffic Into a Flood at the Origin

Researchers show how the way big content delivery networks translate modern HTTP/3 requests into older HTTP/1.1 can multiply a small attack stream by up to 350 times against the website behind them.

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A network traffic visualization showing waves of DDoS attack packets hitting server infrastructure, with real-time defense responses filtering and blocking the
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Threema knocked offline by shifting DDoS attacks, Swiss messenger says

The encrypted messaging service and its Swiss hosting partner Nine faced sustained flood attacks that changed tactics to slip past defences.

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Array of home networking routers stacked and arranged on shelves in a data center environment, their status lights blinking in an unsynchronized pattern suggest
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New Evooo1Bot malware is quietly turning home routers into criminal traffic relays

Researchers say the Mirai-based botnet has been hijacking gateway devices since July to sell as proxies, steal credentials, and launch attacks.

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Network traffic visualization showing data streams disguised as normal HTTP/2 sessions, with hidden malicious packets highlighted within legitimate-looking web
Threat Intelligence

New Kimwolf v7 Botnet Disguises DDoS Attacks as Normal Web Traffic

Palo Alto Networks says the upgraded Android and smart-device botnet hides its floods inside HTTP/2 sessions that look like ordinary browsing.

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Network traffic visualization displaying massive terabit-scale DDoS attack waves, with comparative data showing 800+ attacks above 1 Tbps intensity spike across
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Cloudflare Says Terabit-Scale DDoS Attacks Jumped Fivefold This Spring

The web-infrastructure giant mitigated more than 800 network attacks above 1 Tbps in the second quarter, up from 130 the quarter before.

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Tengu Botnet Turns Linux Devices Against Their Own Defenders

A new Mirai spin-off reboots infected machines when responders try to shut it down, giving its persistence tricks another shot at survival.

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Illustration: an empty wood-panelled congressional hearing room, rows of microphones on a long curved dais
Policy & Regulation

Europe's Cyber Threat Picture Looks Nothing Like America's. The Numbers Prove It.

Business email scams hit 81% of reported incidents in Germany and the Benelux region. Europe absorbs nearly half of all global denial-of-service attacks. A new wave of ransomware gangs is arriving. The regulatory rulebook is entirely different, too.

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Illustration: A dim school computer lab at dusk, rows of identical monitors glowing with abstract blue browser windows
Threat Intelligence

Fake Student Proxies on npm Turned Browsers Into a DDoS Weapon

JFrog researchers say 148 malicious packages used npm as free hosting for a booby-trapped proxy site, quietly enlisting students' browsers into an attack campaign that ran for roughly two weeks in May 2024.

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Illustration: a tangle of consumer networking gear — a stacked home router, an IP camera
Threat Intelligence

RustDuck: A Rust-Based DDoS Botnet Quietly Building Out Since February

XLab researchers say the two-stage loader is iterating faster than its install base is growing, and that's the interesting part.

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Illustration: AI-driven cyber attack visualization
Threat Intelligence

The Bot That Learned to Lie: Inside the New Generation of AI-Driven DDoS

Defenders describe attack waves that pause, study traffic patterns, and resume from fresh infrastructure, behavior that looks less like a script and more like a sparring partner.

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Illustration: AI-driven DDoS attacks, showing AI algorithms targeting a network
Policy & Regulation

Operators Warn AI-Generated Traffic Is Outpacing Static DDoS Defences as Regulators Eye Disclosure Rules

Machine-learning-driven flood attacks are adapting mid-stream to evade filters, and existing incident-reporting frameworks weren't written with that in mind.

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Illustration: A digital representation of a botnet network with police arrest imagery in the background
Policy & Regulation

Justice Department Charges Ottawa Man With Operating Kimwolf DDoS Botnet

Federal prosecutors say Jacob Butler, 23, developed and rented out a variant of the AISURU botnet for paid denial-of-service attacks.

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