DOJ Charges 22-Year-Old for Running RapperBot Botnet Behind 370,000 DDoS Attacks

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LATEST NEWS Aug 20, 2025

🕵️ Webinar: Discover and Control Shadow AI Agents in Your Enterprise Before Hackers Do

Do you know how many AI agents are running inside your business right now? If the answer is "not sure," you're not alone—and that's exactly the concern. Across industries, AI agents are being set up every day. Sometimes...

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From Impact to Action: Turning BIA Insights Into Resilient Recovery

Modern businesses face a rapidly evolving and expanding threat landscape, but what does this mean for your business? It means a growing number of risks, along with an increase in their frequency, variety, complexity, se...

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Blue Report 2025 is Here: 2X Increase in Password Cracking

46% of environments had passwords cracked, up from 25% last year. Download the Picus Blue Report for a more comprehensive look at the findings.

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North Korea Uses GitHub in Diplomat Cyber Attacks as IT Worker Scheme Hits 320+ Firms

North Korean threat actors have been attributed to a coordinated cyber espionage campaign targeting diplomatic missions in their southern counterpart between March and July 2025. The activity manifested in the form of a...

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DOJ Charges 22-Year-Old for Running RapperBot Botnet Behind 370,000 DDoS Attacks

A 22-year-old man from the U.S. state of Oregon has been charged with allegedly developing and overseeing a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)-for-hire botnet called RapperBot. Ethan Foltz of Eugene, Oregon, has been ...

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How to Defend Against Root-of-Trust Attacks: Lessons from Secret Blizzard

Russian group Secret Blizzard bypassed MFA in 2025 embassy attacks via TLS root compromise, exposing MFA limits.

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Apache ActiveMQ Flaw Exploited to Deploy DripDropper Malware on Cloud Linux Systems

Threat actors are exploiting a nearly two-year-old security flaw in Apache ActiveMQ to gain persistent access to cloud Linux systems and deploy malware called DripDropper. But in an unusual twist, the unknown attackers ...

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New GodRAT Trojan Targets Trading Firms Using Steganography and Gh0st RAT Code

Financial institutions like trading and brokerage firms are the target of a new campaign that delivers a previously unreported remote access trojan called GodRAT. The malicious activity involves the "distribution of mal...

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