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Teen Who Shook The Internet In 2016 Pleads Guilty To DDoS Attacks One of the operators behind a Mirai botnet pleaded guilty to their involvement in a huge DDoS attack that caused a massive Internet disruption during October 2016. Multiple high-profile websites and online services including Amazon, PayPal, Visa, Netflix, the PlayStation Network, and Airbnb
Microsoft Edge Gets A Performance Boost With Sleeping Tabs Microsoft is rolling out a sleeping tabs feature to the new Chromium-based Edge web browser which will drastically reduce memory and CPU resource usage. The new feature is being deployed to all users running Microsoft Edge Beta 88 after its initial unveil, in September, as a Microsoft Edge experiment. “To
Qbot Malware Switched To Stealthy New Windows Autostart Method A new Qbot malware version now activates its persistence mechanism right before infected Windows devices shutdown and it automatically removes any traces when the system restarts or wakes up from sleep. Qbot (also known as Qakbot, Quakbot, and Pinkslipbot) is a Windows banking trojan with worm features active since at
Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Documents Accessed In EMA Cyberattack The European Medicines Agency (EMA) responsible for COVID-19 vaccine approval has suffered a cyberattack of an undisclosed nature, according to a statement posted on their website. The EMA is a decentralized agency for the European Union responsible for evaluating, monitoring, and supervising new medicines introduced to the