We continue our series of articles on IABs by writing about an Iranian cyber contractor that not only works as an initial access broker but also provides support to ransomware gangs to fill their and their own pockets with money. In a CISA report published in August 2024, CISA, the FBI and the DoD Cyber Crimes Division say that an Iranian group known as “Pioneer Kitten”, “Fox Kitten”, “UNC757”, “Parisite”, “RUBIDIUM” or “Lemon Sandstorm” has been successful in cyber crime by selling access to hackable corporate networks. The group has also operated under other names such as “Br0k3r” and “xplfinder” and has

In mid-May 2025, Cloudflare blocked the largest DDoS attack ever recorded: 7.3 terabits per second (Tbps). This event comes shortly after the release of the DDoS Threat Report for Q1 2025 on April 27, 2025, which highlighted attacks reaching 6.5 Tbps and 4.8 billion packets per second (pps). 37.4 terabytes isn’t a huge number by today’s standards, but downloading 37.4 terabytes in just 45 seconds is. That’s the equivalent of flooding the internet with over 9,350 HD movies or streaming 7,480 hours of uninterrupted high-definition video (nearly a year’s worth of back-to-back TV binge-watching) in just 45 seconds. If it were music,