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The DDoS attack is constantly evolving due to advancements in technology and the changing motivations of attackers. Recent cases have shown that these attacks can cause significant damage and have severe legal consequences.
Hackers Exploit Zimbra Mail Servers: TeamViewer patched 5 critical flaws
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/ Thursday , October 1 2026
Hackers to exploit a flaw in Zimbra mail servers that are connected to the Internet. They send special emails that...
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Google Warns of Hackers Actively Exploiting Citrix 0-Day Flaws
By infosecbulletin
/ Wednesday , September 30 2026
Google has said that hackers are using two serious Citrix NetScaler security holes to get root access, set up hidden...
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CISA Warns Critical MikroTik RouterOS Flaw While Cisco SD-WAN Zero-Day Exploited in Attacks
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/ Wednesday , September 30 2026
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is alerting people about a major flaw in MikroTik RouterOS. This could...
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Apple Zero-Day Exploited: Pentagon Data Breach Reportedly Exposes Sensitive Data of 3 Million People
By infosecbulletin
/ Tuesday , September 29 2026
Apple has launched iOS 26.7.1 and iPadOS 26.7.1 to fix a serious zero-day flaw that it believes might have been...
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JadePuffer Agentic AI targets and destroys Azure’s cloud resources
By infosecbulletin
/ Tuesday , September 29 2026
The JadePuffer ransomware group is attacking Azure users with agent-based attacks that gather information, steal passwords, and damage key components. The...
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“InfoSecCon-2026: Bangladesh’s Cybersecurity Leaders Unite to Shape a Safer Digital Future”
By infosecbulletin
/ Tuesday , September 29 2026
The 5th Edition of InfoSecCon-2026, a premier cybersecurity-focused event, has been successfully completed with the participation of cybersecurity professionals, technology...
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Microsoft Patches CVSS 10.0 Azure AI Foundry Vulnerability Allowing Privilege Escalation
By infosecbulletin
/ Saturday , September 19 2026
Microsoft has fixed a serious security flaw in Azure AI Foundry that could let bad actors gain privilege escalation. The...
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AWS is unable to restore access to Bahrain, one UAE cloud data zone after war damage
By infosecbulletin
/ Friday , September 18 2026
Amazon Web Services cannot restore access to its cloud-computing facility in Bahrain and one of three data-hosting zones in the...
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Cisco Warns of Critical ISE 0-Day Flaw and Hackers Allegedly Selling Fortinet FortiGate 1-Day Flaw
By infosecbulletin
/ Friday , September 18 2026
A threat actor is allegedly offering a private remote code execution exploit for Fortinet FortiGate SSL VPN appliances, claiming that...
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Anthropic prepares “Claude Money” to analyze bank account and financial data
By infosecbulletin
/ Thursday , September 17 2026
Anthropic is making a new Claude feature called “Money.” It's a separate tab in the mobile app. The new interface...
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Akamai Prolexic’s DDoS defense platfam has successfully thwarted the most colossal DDoS attack ever recorded on a prominent U.S. financial institution’s platform. The attack, which unleashed a formidable torrent of 633.7 Gbps and 55.1 Mpps, was powerfully neutralized.
Akamai security analysts reported a major DDoS attack that lasted less than 2 minutes. During the attack, the threat actors used a combination of flood attack vectors.
ACK
PUSH
RESET
SYN
In Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, Prolexic‘s DDoS protection shield platform successfully thwarted numerous unprecedented attacks. Among them, a staggering 704.8 million packets per second (Mpps) spike in September 2022 and an astounding 900.1 gigabits per second (Gbps) surge in February 2023 were skillfully neutralized.
Malicious Traffic source
Here below, Akamai have mentioned the top malicious traffic sources:-
Bulgaria
Brazil
China
India
United States
Thailand
Russia
Ukraine
Vietnam
Japan
Akamai mentioned the following recommendations :-
- Make sure to adopt CISA recommendations promptly.
- Check all the key subnets and IPs for effective mitigation controls.
- Establish continuous DDoS security controls as your initial defense layer.
- Enhance security with advanced network cloud firewall beyond basic DDoS protection.
- Form a proactive crisis team and keep incident plans and runbooks up to date.
