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1.5 Billion Packets Per Second DDoS Attack Detected with FastNetMon

FastNetMon today announced that it detected a record-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeting the website of a leading DDoS scrubbing vendor in Western Europe. The attack reached 1.5 billion packets per second (1.5 Gpps) — one of the largest packet-rate floods publicly disclosed. The…

ChillyHell macOS Malware: Three Methods of Compromise and Persistence

A new wave of macOS-targeted malware has emerged under the radar—despite employing advanced process reconnaissance and maintaining successful notarization status for years. Jamf Threat Labs recently uncovered a developer-signed sample on VirusTotal that used sophisticated endpoint profiling and established persistence…

Chrome Extension Scam Exposed: Hackers Stealing Meta Accounts

A sophisticated campaign targeting Meta advertisers through fake AI-powered ad optimization tools has been uncovered, with cybercriminals deploying malicious Chrome extensions to steal credentials and hijack business accounts. Cybereason Security Services has identified an evolving malicious Chrome extension campaign that…

Hackers Reap Minimal Gains from Massive npm Supply Chain Breach

On September 8th, 2025, at approximately 9AM EST, the npm ecosystem faced an acute supply chain attack. A threat actor leveraged social engineering techniques to compromise the account of well-known npm developer Qix, subsequently publishing malicious releases for several widely-used…

AsyncRAT Leverages Fileless Techniques to Bypass Detection

Fileless malware has become a formidable adversary for security teams, operating entirely in memory and evading disk-based detection. A recent incident demonstrates how attackers leveraged a multi-stage fileless loader to deploy AsyncRAT, a powerful Remote Access Trojan (RAT), through legitimate…

Meta Verified Scam Ads on Facebook Steal User Account Details

Content creators and small businesses are facing a sophisticated new threat targeting their Facebook accounts through deceptive advertisements promising free Meta verification badges. A new malvertising campaign is targeting Facebook users with malicious ads that promise to unlock Meta’s coveted…