Anti-DDoS Firm Heaped Attacks on Brazilian ISPs
2026-05-07T13:23:31Z•6058ff07671666448940ab8967b35d2a7047919a19f466057944ed62680d8eb8
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What happened
Collection of KrebsOnSecurity reports (Mar–Apr 2026) covering multiple high‑impact incidents: an anti‑DDoS vendor in Brazil was found enabling botnet DDoS attacks against ISPs; a senior Scattered Spider member (“Tylerb”) pleaded guilty for SIM‑swap/text‑phishing intrusions that led to major compromises and crypto theft; Microsoft’s April Patch Tuesday fixed 167 vulnerabilities including a SharePoint zero‑day and a publicly disclosed Windows Defender flaw (“BlueHammer”); Google Chrome and Adobe issued emergency fixes for actively exploited zero‑days; Russian state‑linked actors exploited known/
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- 2026-05-07T13:23:31Z
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