Anti-DDoS Firm Heaped Attacks on Brazilian ISPs
2026-05-01T07:23:30Z•c6dc5e6e092fadec969b129f35ed57c6a2bc3d3833fb00aefad8fa0a978dfbd9
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What happened
A collection of KrebsOnSecurity reports covering multiple high-impact cyber incidents: a Brazilian anti-DDoS firm was implicated in enabling botnet attacks against ISPs; a senior member of the Scattered Spider gang pleaded guilty to text-message phishing and identity theft; Microsoft and Adobe released emergency patches (April Patch Tuesday fixed 167 vulnerabilities including a SharePoint zero-day and a Windows Defender issue dubbed "BlueHammer") while Chrome patched another zero-day. Separately, Russia-linked actors exploited known router flaws to harvest Microsoft Office authenticationtokens
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- 2026-05-01T07:23:30Z
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