After Bluesky, Mastodon Targeted in DDoS Attack
2026-04-22T19:24:06Z•7cf36bf3131189ba8c1b8be5c211ff485d22dc212f48d81c6c0b5bc7302891cf
AI-assisted discoveryAppleScriptBlackCatClickFixD-LinkDDoSFirefox vulnerabilitiesGoogle AntigravityIoT botnetLotus WiperMastodonMiraiNorth KoreaOracle CPU April 2026SBOMVenezuelacommand injectionenergy sectormacOSpatchesransomwareremote code executionsupply chainwiper malware
What happened
Multiple SecurityWeek reports covering active and emerging cyber threats: Mastodon suffered a DDoS outage but was restored within hours; Mirai botnet campaigns are exploiting a disclosed command-injection flaw in discontinued D-Link routers; a new destructive wiper ("Lotus Wiper") targeted Venezuelan energy infrastructure, overwriting drives and deleting recovery artifacts; North Korean operators resumed macOS-focused campaigns using AppleScript and ClickFix against financial and crypto-related targets; researchers found an RCE in Google Antigravity being weaponized for malware delivery; an AI
Why it matters
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Evidence and limitations
- Source ID
- securityweek
- Record identifier
- 7cf36bf3131189ba8c1b8be5c211ff485d22dc212f48d81c6c0b5bc7302891cf
- Enrichment time
- 2026-04-22T19:24:06Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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