Vercara’s Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) Report – January 11 – January 19, 2024

Here is your weekly summary of news and other public coverage relevant to Vercara, the market leader in DNS, DDoS Mitigation, Web Application Firewalls, and Bot Management. This week there were some pretty big events. Keep reading for the highlights and be sure to download the report for the details.

Highlights from this week’s report.  

This week’s report has several interesting and informative stories to keep you in the know, including:

• Researchers Uncover Major Surge in Global Botnet Activity

• Citrix Discovers 2 Vulnerabilities, Both Exploited in the Wild

• Balada Injector Infects Over 7,100 WordPress Sites Using Plugin Vulnerability

• Russian COLDRIVER Hackers Expand Beyond Phishing with Custom Malware

• FBI: Androxghost malware botnet steals AWS, Microsoft credentials

• PixieFail UEFI Flaws Expose Millions of Computers to RCE, DoS, and Data Theft

• Alert: Over 178,000 SonicWall Firewalls Potentially Vulnerable to Exploits – Act Now