Author Archives: Onsite Computing, Inc.

Cloudflare reports thwarting the largest-ever publicly disclosed DDoS attack

Content distribution network Cloudflare has reported mitigating the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack seen to date. The attack by unknown perpetrators, observed in September, was part of a bigger campaign of more than 100 attacks that constantly exceeded three terabits per second (Tbps) and peaked at 3.8 Tbps, the highest value for a network layer […]

Fake Trading Apps Target Victims Globally via Apple App Store and Google Play

A large-scale fraud campaign leveraged fake trading apps published on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, as well as phishing sites, to defraud victims, per findings from Group-IB. The campaign is part of a consumer investment fraud scheme that’s also widely known as pig butchering, in which prospective victims are lured into making […]

LLMs hallucinating non-existent developer packages could fuel supply chain attacks

Large Language Models (LLMs) have a serious “package hallucination” problem that could lead to a wave of maliciously-coded packages in the supply chain, researchers have discovered in one of the largest and most in-depth ever studies to investigate the problem. It’s so bad, in fact, that across 30 different tests, the researchers found that 440,445 (19.7%) of […]

China-Linked CeranaKeeper Targeting Southeast Asia with Data Exfiltration

A previously undocumented threat actor called CeranaKeeper has been linked to a string of data exfiltration attacks targeting Southeast Asia. Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET, which observed campaigns targeting governmental institutions in Thailand starting in 2023, attributed the activity cluster as aligned to China, leveraging tools previously identified as used by the Mustang Panda actor. “The […]

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