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Hackers Launch 2.3 Million Attacks On Palo Alto Networks’ GlobalProtect VPN Portals

Cybersecurity firm GreyNoise reported a dramatic spike in attacks targeting Palo Alto Networks' GlobalProtect VPN portals. Starting November 14, 2025, malicious sessions exploded, reaching 2.3 million attempts in just days a 40-fold increase in 24 hours and the highest in 90 days. Attackers scanned...

Azure Network Hit By Record-Breaking 15 Tbps DDoS Attack From Over 500,000 Devices

Microsoft Azure successfully defended against the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded in cloud computing history on October 24, 2025. The assault peaked at 15.72 terabits per second (Tbps). It involved nearly 3.64 billion packets per second (pps), overwhelming a single endpoint in...

Chinese Threat Actors Leveraged Claude Code AI Capabilities To Compromise Large Technology Enterprises

In a groundbreaking revelation, Anthropic disclosed on November 13, 2025, that it disrupted the first known AI-driven cyber espionage campaign, in which Chinese state-sponsored hackers used the company's Claude Code AI to breach major organizations. The operation, detected in mid-September 2025, targeted around 30...

MAD-CAT Meow Tool Sparks Real-World Data Corruption Attacks

The MAD-CAT tool represents a significant advancement in simulating data corruption threats, building on the infamous Meow attacks that began in 2020. Developed by Trustwave SpiderLabs researcher Karl Biron, MAD-CAT automates attacks across six vulnerable database platforms, highlighting persistent risks in misconfigured systems. This...

Monsta Web FTP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Under Attack

Security researchers have uncovered a critical remote code execution (RCE) flaw in Monsta FTP, a popular web-based file transfer client, now actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2025-34299, this unauthenticated vulnerability allows attackers to upload malicious files and execute arbitrary code on affected...

Authorities Dismantle Massive Credit Card Fraud Ring Affecting 4.3 Million Cardholders

Authorities dismantled three sophisticated fraud and money laundering networks that victimized over 4.3 million credit cardholders across 193 countries, causing damages exceeding €300 million. Dubbed Operation Chargeback, the effort was spearheaded by Germany's Cybercrime Department in Koblenz and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA),...