Anti-DDoS Firm Heaped Attacks on Brazilian ISPs
2026-05-06T01:23:38Z•03d66a781201e0da8c11c18ef010adefd185e493bd2c086986fc30a639d8bbf9
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What happened
Multiple high-impact incidents and remediation actions were reported across April 2026: a Brazilian anti‑DDoS vendor was implicated in enabling a botnet used to flood ISPs (firm claims breach), and US/Allied authorities disrupted four large IoT botnets (Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, Mossad) that had compromised ~3 million devices. Russian military‑linked actors exploited known router flaws to harvest Microsoft Office authentication tokens from >18,000 networks. A senior member of the Scattered Spider group pleaded guilty for SMS/phishing intrusions that led to large crypto thefts, while German警方—
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