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Oops: DanaBot Malware Devs Infected Their Own PCs

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 21:53:21 +0000

The U.S. government today unsealed criminal charges against 16 individuals accused of operating and selling DanaBot, a prolific strain of information-stealing malware that has been sold on Russian cybercrime forums since 2018. The FBI says a newer version of DanaBot was used for espionage, and that many of the defendants exposed their real-life identities after accidentally infecting their own systems with the malware.

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KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Near-Record 6.3 Tbps DDoS

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 21:30:30 +0000

KrebsOnSecurity last week was hit by a near record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that clocked in at more than 6.3 terabits of data per second (a terabit is one trillion bits of data). The brief attack appears to have been a test run for a massive new Internet of Things (IoT) botnet capable of launching crippling digital assaults that few web destinations can withstand. Read on for more about the botnet, the attack, and the apparent creator of this global menace.

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