The company acted on a court order and collaborated with Cloudflare to seize RaccoonO365’s infrastructure, which was used to steal credentials from organizations in 94 countries.

Salesloft said the AI chat agent for sales and leads will be taken offline, as investigations into the attack spree widen and reveal more victims.

The DDoS botnet was among the most powerful on record, allegedly exceeding six terabits per second during its largest attack, authorities said. Victims are spread across 80…

Cloudflare said it received complaints from customers about Perplexity using stealthy tactics to evade network blocks against systematic browsing and scraping of web pages.

The move is the result customer feedback, since they neither wanted to grant AI web crawlers unrestricted access to their data nor block the practice entirely.  

Cryptography experts said a “Cambrian explosion” of standards is on its way as a response to worries over quantum computers breaking current algorithms.

The initiative is part of a long-term plan to update all its encryption services to newer algorithms designed to protect against quantum computers.

Anish Patel | Federal Director of Sales | Cloudflare

The company said that the 5.6 Tbps attack is indicative of the steady increase in the size of these attacks.

A criminal complaint says the group jeopardized lives via DDoS attack, with 35,000 attacks since the beginning of 2023.