Microsoft Mitigates Record 15.72 Tbps DDoS Attack Driven by AISURU Botnet

Nov 18, 2025Ravie LakshmananIoT Security / Botnet Microsoft on Monday disclosed that it automatically detected and neutralized a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeting a single endpoint in Australia that measured 15.72 terabits per second (Tbps) and nearly 3.64 billion packets per second (pps). The tech giant said it was the largest DDoS attack ever observed […]

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Google Issues Security Fix for Actively Exploited Chrome V8 Zero-Day Vulnerability

Nov 18, 2025Ravie LakshmananBrowser Security / Vulnerability Google on Monday released security updates for its Chrome browser to address two security flaws, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-13223 (CVSS score: 8.8), a type confusion vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine that could […]

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Govini founder Eric Gillespie’s lawyer calls child sex chat ‘internet fantasy,’ not a crime

Govini founder Eric Gillespie urged a person whom he believed to be a dad offering his 10-year-old daughter to be sexually abused to use encrypted chat platforms, a Pennsylvania criminal complaint alleges. “Signal is safer for er small talk,” Gillespie wrote to the purported father, who was actually an undercover law-enforcement agent, according to a […]

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Dell, HPE shares sink after Morgan Stanley downgrades — computer hardware stocks also hit

Igor Golovnov | Lightrocket | Getty Images Data center stocks took a major hit on Monday after Morgan Stanley downgraded seven hardware companies, including Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The bank double-downgraded Dell from overweight to underweight and downgraded HPE from overweight to equal weight. Dell and HPE closed down 8% and 7%, respectively. HP […]

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Buffett’s Google bet comes 2 decades after billionaire investor ‘inspired’ search giant’s IPO

Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images In Google’s IPO prospectus 21 years ago, founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin gave a flattering nod to Warren Buffett, suggesting in their letter to prospective investors that the billionaire investor was a big influence. They titled their founders’ letter, “‘An owner’s manual’ for Google’s shareholders,” and indicated that there […]

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Astronomers Capture First-Ever Early Snapshot of Supernova Shock Wave Using ESO’s VLT

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have captured a rare early look at supernova SN 2024ggi, just one day after its discovery. The blast shockwave appeared olive-shaped—not spherical—revealing surprising asymmetry in the explosion. Recorded with the FORS2 instrument, the data shows the shock-breakout phase in unprecedented detail. The discovery challeng…

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New EVALUSION ClickFix Campaign Delivers Amatera Stealer and NetSupport RAT

Nov 17, 2025Ravie Lakshmanan Cybersecurity researchers have discovered malware campaigns using the now-prevalent ClickFix social engineering tactic to deploy Amatera Stealer and NetSupport RAT. The activity, observed this month, is being tracked by eSentire under the moniker EVALUSION. First spotted in June 2025, Amatera is assessed to be an evolution of ACR (short for “AcridRain”) […]

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5 Reasons Why Attackers Are Phishing Over LinkedIn

Phishing attacks are no longer confined to the email inbox, with 1 in 3 phishing attacks now taking place over non-email channels like social media, search engines, and messaging apps. LinkedIn in particular has become a hotbed for phishing attacks, and for good reason. Attackers are running sophisticated spear-phishing attacks against company executives, with recent […]

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