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A cybersecurity blogger argues the current wave of 0-days, broken disclosure embargoes, and overwhelmed defenders is unsustainable, warning that AI cannot solve the patch-management bottleneck for operations teams.

En pågående DDoS-angrep mot norske offentlige tjenester har forårsaket ustabilitet og innloggingsproblemer i ID-porten, Altinn og flere andre Digdir-løsninger siden morgenen 3. august. Driftspartneren Vivicta jobber med avbøtende tiltak, og trafikken har vært på vei opp igjen, men noen tjenester er fortsatt rammet.

FSF sysadmins share how they block botnets and DDoS attacks using the reaction tool, an alternative to fail2ban that works with ipset to handle large volumes of malicious IP addresses.

A Python DDoS script with 57 attack methods shared on GitHub.

Canadian authorities arrested Jacob Butler, aka Dort, for operating the Kimwolf DDoS botnet that enslaved millions of IoT devices; he faces charges in both the U.S. and Canada.

KrebsOnSecurity reports that a Brazilian anti-DDoS firm, Huge Networks, was compromised and its infrastructure used to launch massive DDoS attacks against other Brazilian ISPs via a botnet of insecure routers and DNS servers.

U.S., Canadian, and German authorities have dismantled four IoT botnets—Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad—that compromised over three million devices and launched record-breaking DDoS attacks, including against the Department of Defense.