From The Hacker News – Belarus-Linked Ghostwriter Uses Macropack-Obfuscated Excel Macros to Deploy Malware

From The Hacker News – Belarus-Linked Ghostwriter Uses Macropack-Obfuscated Excel Macros to Deploy Malware

Opposition activists in Belarus as well as Ukrainian military and government organizations are the target of a new campaign that employs malware-laced Microsoft Excel documents as lures to deliver a new variant of PicassoLoader.  The threat cluster has been assessed to be an extension of a long-running campaign mounted by a Belarus-aligned threat actor dubbed Ghostwriter (aka Moonscape,
From The Hacker News – Gcore DDoS Radar Reveals 56% YoY Increase in DDoS Attacks

From The Hacker News – Gcore DDoS Radar Reveals 56% YoY Increase in DDoS Attacks

Gcore’s latest DDoS Radar report analyzes attack data from Q3–Q4 2024, revealing a 56% YoY rise in the total number of DDoS attacks with the largest attack peaking at a record 2 Tbps. The financial services sector saw the most dramatic increase, with a 117% rise in attacks, while gaming remained the most-targeted industry. This period’s findings emphasize the need for robust, adaptive DDoS