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Yandex is Battling The Largest DDoS in Russian Internet History Russian internet giant Yandex has been targeted in a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that started last week and reportedly continues this week. A report in Russian media says that the assault is the largest in the short history of the Russian internet, the RuNet, and
New Mēris Botnet Breaks DDoS Record With 21.8 Million RPS Attack A new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet that kept growing over the summer has been hammering Russian internet giant Yandex for the past month, the attack peaking at the unprecedented rate of 21.8 million requests per second. The botnet received the name Mēris, and it
Microsoft Fixes Bug Letting Hackers Take Over Azure Containers Microsoft has fixed a vulnerability in Azure Container Instances called Azurescape that allowed a malicious container to take over containers belonging to other customers on the platform. An adversary exploiting Azurescape could execute commands in the other users’ containers and gain access to all their data
Windows MSHTML Zero-day Defenses Bypassed As New Info Emerges New details have emerged about the recent Windows CVE-2021-40444 zero-day vulnerability, how it is being exploited in attacks, and the threat actor’s ultimate goal of taking over corporate networks. This Internet Explorer MSHTML remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-40444, was disclosed by Microsoft on Tuesday but with