German Police Disrupt DDoS-for-Hire Platform dstat[.]cc; Suspects Arrested

German law enforcement authorities have announced the disruption of a criminal service called dstat.cc that made it possible for other threat actors to easily mount distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks. "The platform made such DDoS attacks accessible to a wide range of users, even those...

U.S. Charges Two Sudanese Brothers for Record 35,000 DDoS Attacks

Federal prosecutors in the U.S. have charged two Sudanese brothers with running a distributed denial-of-service DDoS botnet for hire that conducted a record 35,000 DDoS attacks in a single year, including those that targeted Microsoft's services in June 2023. The attacks, which were facilitated b...

Operation Morpheus Disrupts 593 Cobalt Strike Servers Used for Ransomware

Global Operation Morpheus dismantles Cobalt Strike network: Law enforcement takes down criminal infrastructure used for ransomware and data…...

European Authorities Disrupt Emotet — World's Most Dangerous Malware

Law enforcement agencies from as many as eight countries dismantled the infrastructure of Emotet, a notorious email-based Windows malware behind several botnet-driven spam campaigns and ransomware attacks over the past decade. The coordinated takedown of the botnet on Tuesday — dubbed "Operation...

Feds Shut Down 'Longest-Running' Andromeda Botnet

In a coordinated International cyber operation, Europol with the help of international law enforcement agencies has taken down what it called "one of the longest-running malware families in existence" known as Andromeda. Andromeda, also known as Win32/Gamarue, is an infamous HTTP-based modular...