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Imagine paying just €10 to knock an entire website offline.
No hacking knowledge required. No secret chatrooms. Just a simple, user-friendly web portal.
This wasn’t fiction—it was the reality of the growing DDoS-for-hire underworld.
Between April 20 and 21, 2025, the cybersecurity landscape witnessed a disturbing trend: over 4,800 unique IP addresses launched scans targeting publicly accessible .git/config files. This spike, reported by GreyNoise, marks the largest Git-based reconnaissance event ever recorded, reflecting the evolving tactics of cyber adversaries who are increasingly turning to exposed source code repositories as prime entry points.
In one of the most unexpected cybersecurity incidents in recent memory, the CEO of a cybersecurity company was charged with deploying malware on hospital systems. This shocking betrayal has shaken the industry to its core. How could someone entrusted with securing critical systems turn into the very threat they are supposed to defend against?
