Season 3 · Episode 140
#140 - Intel Chat: 10bn Pwds, Eldorado RaaS, 840Mpps DDoS, regreSSHion & $1.4bn in stolen crypto
The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast · Christopher
July 10, 202427m 55s
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Show Notes
In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some cutting-edge intel coming out of LimaCharlie's community Slack channel.
- Likely the biggest password leak ever: nearly 10 billion credentials exposed.
- Eldorado is a newly discovered ransomware-as-a-service operation targeting both Windows and Linux systems.
- OVHcloud has reported mitigating a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service attack that peaked at 840 million packets per second.
- Cisco has issued a warning about a critical remote code execution vulnerability named "regreSSHion," tracked as CVE-2024-6387, affecting OpenSSH on glibc-based Linux systems.
- In the first half of 2024, cryptocurrency thefts amounted to $1.4 billion, significantly driven by rising crypto prices and a few large-scale attacks.