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Aisuru botnet behind new record-breaking 29.7 Tbps DDoS attack
In just three months, the massive Aisuru botnet launched more than 1,300 distributed denial-of-service attacks, one of them setting a new record with a peak at 29.7 terabits per second.
- December 03, 2025
- 09:01 AM
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Tor switches to new Counter Galois Onion relay encryption algorithm
Tor has announced improved encryption and security for the circuit traffic by replacing the old tor1 relay encryption algorithm with a new design called Counter Galois Onion (CGO).
- November 25, 2025
- 12:09 PM
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New Webinar: Choose Your Own Investigation — Browser Attack Edition
Modern attacks have shifted focus to the browser, yet detection tools remain largely blind to the crucial activity happening there.
Join Push Security on February 11th for an interactive "choose-your-own-adventure" webinar on ClickFix, credential phishing, and other in-browser attacks we've observed in the wild.
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DNS0.EU private DNS service shuts down over sustainability issues
The DNS0.EU non-profit public DNS service focused on European users announced its immediate shut down due to time and resource constraints.
- October 20, 2025
- 05:05 PM
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AWS outage crashes Amazon, Prime Video, Fortnite, Perplexity and more
AWS outage has taken down millions of websites, including Amazon.com, Prime Video, Perplexity AI, Canva and more.
- October 20, 2025
- 04:24 AM
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Brave launches 'Ask Brave' feature to fuse AI with traditional search
Brave Software, the creator of the privacy-focused web browser and search engine, has introduced a new subsystem called Ask Brave that unifies search and AI chat into a single interface.
- September 29, 2025
- 12:01 PM
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Cloudflare says 1.1.1.1 outage not caused by attack or BGP hijack
To quash speculation of a cyberattack or BGP hijack incident causing the recent 1.1.1.1 Resolver service outage, Cloudflare explains in a post mortem that the incident was caused by an internal misconfiguration.
- July 16, 2025
- 12:49 PM
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Russia’s throttling of Cloudflare makes sites inaccessible
Starting June 9, 2025, Russian internet service providers (ISPs) have begun throttling access to websites and services protected by Cloudflare, an American internet giant.
- June 27, 2025
- 11:47 AM
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Cloudflare now blocks all unencrypted traffic to its API endpoints
Cloudflare announced that it closed all HTTP connections and it is now accepting only secure, HTTPS connections for api.cloudflare.com.
- March 22, 2025
- 11:35 AM
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Privacy tech firms warn France’s encryption and VPN laws threaten privacy
Privacy-focused email provider Tuta (previously Tutanota) and the VPN Trust Initiative (VTI) are raising concerns over proposed laws in France set to backdoor encrypted messaging systems and restrict internet access.
- February 27, 2025
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Tor needs 200 new WebTunnel bridges to fight censorship
The Tor Project has put out an urgent call to the privacy community asking volunteers to help deploy 200 new WebTunnel bridges by the end of the year to fight government censorship.
- November 28, 2024
- 11:50 AM
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Cloudflare says it lost 55% of logs pushed to customers for 3.5 hours
Internet security giant Cloudflare announced that it lost 55% of all logs pushed to customers over a 3.5-hour period due to a bug in the log collection service on November 14, 2024.
- November 27, 2024
- 11:15 AM
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Meta halts routing via Deutsche Telekom over €20M peering fee
Meta announced that it's ending its direct peering relationship with Deutsche Telekom following a court's ruling earlier this year that would oblige the tech firm to pay the telecom €20,000,000 to continue using its network.
- September 25, 2024
- 03:29 PM
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Unexplained ‘Noise Storms’ flood the Internet, puzzle experts
Internet intelligence firm GreyNoise reports that it has been tracking large waves of "Noise Storms" containing spoofed internet traffic since January 2020. However, despite extensive analysis, it has not concluded its origin and purpose.
- September 19, 2024
- 09:57 AM
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18-year-old security flaw in Firefox and Chrome exploited in attacks
A vulnerability disclosed 18 years ago, dubbed "0.0.0.0 Day", allows malicious websites to bypass security in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple Safari and interact with services on a local network.
- August 08, 2024
- 12:28 PM
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Proton VPN adds ‘Discreet Icons’ to hide app on Android devices
Proton VPN has announced a series of updates to its Windows and Android apps to help users combat censorship, circumvent blocks, and protect themselves from authoritarian governments due to using forbidden tools.
- August 06, 2024
- 06:00 AM
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DuckDuckGo blocked in Indonesia over porn, gambling search results
Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has been blocked in Indonesia by its government after citizens reportedly complained about pornographic and online gambling content in its search results.
- August 02, 2024
- 12:16 PM
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Cloudflare blames recent outage on BGP hijacking incident
Internet giant Cloudflare reports that its DNS resolver service, 1.1.1.1, was recently unreachable or degraded for some of its customers because of a combination of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijacking and a route leak.
- July 05, 2024
- 02:41 PM
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OVHcloud blames record-breaking DDoS attack on MikroTik botnet
OVHcloud, a global cloud services provider and one of the largest of its kind in Europe, says it mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack earlier this year that reached an unprecedented packet rate of 840 million packets per second (Mpps).
- July 03, 2024
- 02:07 PM
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Former AT&T customers get $6.3 million in data throttling refunds
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is sending out $6,300,000 in partial refunds to 267,000 former AT&T Wireless customers as part of a data throttling settlement in 2019.
- April 12, 2024
- 11:56 AM
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New HTTP/2 DoS attack can crash web servers with a single connection
Newly discovered HTTP/2 protocol vulnerabilities called "CONTINUATION Flood" can lead to denial of service (DoS) attacks, crashing web servers with a single TCP connection in some implementations.
- April 04, 2024
- 11:28 AM
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