DDoS wave continues as Mastodon hit after Bluesky incident

2026-04-22T20:51:49Z8faefe3315d2f6691568f62289da50b8fdab5dd5d6fce5d7ec3fca968eca4661
BRIDGE:BREAKCVE-2025-29635CVE-2026-40372aianthropicasp.net coreblackcatbotnetcisa kevcrypto heistddoslantronixlazaruslotus wipermiraiprivilege escalationransomwaresilex technologysupply-chainvenezuela

What happened

This feed reports a wave of high-impact incidents: large DDoS outages hit decentralized social platforms (Mastodon and Bluesky); an active Mirai botnet is exploiting a command-injection flaw in legacy D-Link routers (CVE-2025-29635) after public PoC disclosure; Microsoft issued out-of-band fixes for a critical ASP.NET Core privilege-escalation (CVE-2026-40372, CVSS 9.1) that can yield SYSTEM privileges; and Forescout disclosed 22 BRIDGE:BREAK flaws affecting Lantronix and Silex serial-to-IP converters. Other notable items include a destructive Lotus wiper campaign against Venezuela’s energy/OT

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2026-04-22T20:51:49Z
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