The six-month program will be overseen by the Office of the National Cyber Director and Texas Cyber Command to “find out what works.”

Early results show a tenfold jump in bug discovery at some partners, and a widening gap between finding flaws and fixing them.

The Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid and Mossad botnets enabled cybercriminals to initiate thousands of attacks. A crackdown targeting large-scale botnets continues amid growing challenges.

Microsoft, which led the effort, said it seized 330 domains that powered the phishing platform’s core infrastructure. The alleged creator was also named in a civil complaint.

Blind spots in complex cloud environments allow identity-based attacks to achieve the same outcome as complex malware or zero-day exploits. Sophistication need not apply.

Attacker interest in the vulnerability is magnified by an unparalleled number of publicly available exploits, earning the defect the highest verified public exploit count of any CVE…

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.