First VPN Dismantled in Global Takedown Over Use by 25 Ransomware Groups

Authorities in Europe and North America have announced the dismantling of a criminal virtual private network VPN service used by criminal actors to obscure the origins of ransomware attacks, data theft, scanning, and denial-of-service attacks. Codenamed Operation Saffron, the disruption of First...

Top Five Attacking IPs This Month: Their Locations May Not Be Where You Think

At Wordfence, we see large amounts of threat actor data, and often that data tells unexpected stories. Taking a look at just the top five attacking IP addresses over a 30 day period, you might be surprised to find out where these attacks are originating, and what they are doing. When most people...

Imperva Mitigates Ransom DDoS Attack Measuring 2.5 Million Requests per Second

We are only at the beginning of 2022 and it looks like it is going to be an interesting year for the Distributed Denial of Service DDoS landscape. We recently mitigated a ransom DDoS attack on a single website which reached a rate of 2.5 million requests per second Mrps. And while ransom DDoS...

Massive Injection Campaign Affecting More Than Six Million Pages

We recently reported on a massive drive-by-download campaign affecting some 90,000 Web pages. In the less than two weeks since that report, the same campaign is now affecting more than six million pages. The obvious question is: why has there been such an aggressive increase in the number of...