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Frankfurt am Main, Germany, September 3rd, 2026, CyberNewswire Super-botnets and hijacked cloud servers drive new bandwidth and packet-rate records as international law-enforcement pressure pushes attack counts down Link11 has released its European Cyber Report for the first half of 2026, providing an overview of DDoS attack activity targeting European companies. Although the number of DDoS The post Fewer attacks, more force: Link11’s European Cyber Report finds new DDoS records for the first half of 2026 appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.

Threat actors impersonated Gen executives and major consulting firms in a targeted business email compromise-style operation that used forged non-disclosure agreements to isolate a legal employee and pressure the company into transferring €626,735.45 to a Hong Kong entity. Dubbed Phantom Deal, the campaign shows how financially motivated actors can abuse legitimate M&A processes, corporate history The post Fake Acquisition Scam Uses Forged NDAs to Demand €626,000 Corporate Payment. appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.

A malicious ScreenConnect campaign in which rogue remote-access clients do more than provide attackers with hands-on control: modified clients can automatically push a multi-stage VBScript malware chain to newly connected Windows endpoints. Once deployed, the clients repeatedly spawned wscript.exe to execute four scripts 1.vbs, 2.vbs, 3.vbs, and 4.vbs from ScreenConnect-related temporary locations. The behavior is The post Rogue ScreenConnect Clients Spread Worm-Like Malware Across Connected Windows Systems appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.

QR code phishing, widely known as “quishing,” has reached record levels as threat actors increasingly conceal malicious URLs within scannable images rather than placing clickable links directly in emails. The shift is helping attackers bypass traditional secure email gateways and move victims from managed corporate devices to less-protected smartphones. The company recorded an average of The post QR Phishing Hits Record Levels as Attackers Hide Malicious Links Inside QR Codes appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.

Microsoft will start automatically enabling Memory Integrity protection on eligible Windows devices through quality updates beginning in October 2026. This change aims to strengthen defenses against kernel-level attacks by ensuring that only trusted kernel-mode code and drivers can run on supported systems. Memory Integrity is a security feature built on Virtualization-based Security (VBS), a Windows The post Microsoft to Automatically Enable Memory Integrity on Windows Devices to Block Kernel Attacks appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.