Anti-DDoS Firm Heaped Attacks on Brazilian ISPs
2026-05-07T01:23:35Z•0055176f84f587e0ae578b99e02604e7c6ff224c3512b451fae35299b84a702e
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What happened
Multiple high-impact cyber incidents and disclosures: a Brazilian anti‑DDoS firm was found to have enabled a botnet that launched massive DDoS attacks against ISPs; Russian state‑linked actors exploited known router flaws to harvest Microsoft Office authentication tokens from >18,000 networks; U.S./Allied law enforcement disrupted four large IoT botnets (Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, Mossad) that had compromised millions of devices; Microsoft’s April Patch Tuesday fixed 167 vulnerabilities (including a SharePoint Server zero‑day and a Windows Defender issue dubbed “BlueHammer”), while Chrome and
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