Criminal hacking operations, fraud schemes, and law enforcement actions.
A previously low-profile stresser service known as agath.cc has emerged as the prime suspect in a wave of high-impact DDoS attacks that intermittently knocked Google Docs, accounts.google.com, Google Maps, Apple's website, Reddit, SoundCloud, Cash App, BC.Game, and the Cloudflare Community offline over the past 72 hours.
The Lazarus Group, a notorious North Korean hacking collective, has been linked to a $230 million cryptocurrency theft from a major exchange.
An international law enforcement operation has dismantled QakBot, one of the longest-running and most destructive botnets, seizing infrastructure and recovering millions in cryptocurrency.
A coordinated DDoS campaign linked to a pro-Kremlin hacktivist group knocked online banking offline for five major European banks across two days in March.
Operation PowerOff III seized 27 booter-service domains and indicted nine operators across four countries, the FBI's largest DDoS-for-hire crackdown to date.
Akamai researchers attribute a new wave of Layer-7 DDoS attacks against game publishers to RapperBot, a Mirai variant targeting outdated IoT devices and weakly secured Linux servers.