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Two Chinese nationals were sentenced to prison for scamming Apple out of more than $2.5 million after exchanging over 6,000 counterfeit iPhones for authentic ones. Between July 2017 and December 2019, Haotian Sun, Pengfei Xue, and their co-conspirators, Wen Jin Gao and Dian Luo, exploited Apple’s device replacement policy to replace non-functioning fake iPhones for…

During a distributed denial-of-service campaign targeting organizations in the financial services, internet, and telecommunications sectors, volumetric attacks peaked at 3.8 terabits per second, the largest publicly recorded to date. The assault consisted of a “month-long” barrage of more than 100 hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks flooding the network infrastructure with garbage data. In a volumetric DDoS attack,…

If your organization is like many, your employees may be relying on weak or easily guessable passwords — and inadvertently rolling out the red carpet for hackers and cybercriminals in the process. So how do you stop your staff from leaving the keys to your organization’s data and systems under the proverbial doormat? Integrating a…

A Linux malware named “perfctl” has been targeting Linux servers and workstations for at least three years, remaining largely undetected through high levels of evasion and the use of rootkits. According to Aqua Nautilus researchers who discovered perfctl, the malware likely targeted millions of Linux servers in recent years and possibly caused infections in several…