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We followed up with the cybersecurity experts who conducted the investigation

Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2025 6:32 am
by Bappy11
The year 2021 was marked by two major attacks. The first concerns the assaults carried out by the hacktivists of the Russian-Ukrainian group Conti against hospitals and research centers. The second concerns the mass spying on the population via the spyware Pegasus. In 2022, cyberattacks are moving from trot to gallop with a new pest: Mantis , nicknamed the devil's horse.


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Under the oppressive summer heat, softened only by the rustling of locusts, nothing foreshad turkey telegram data owed the perfidious attack that would occur in June 2022. And yet, at that moment, the Internet came within a whisker of breaking down!

Is Mantis the new internet-eating malware?

A strange discovery…
In early June 2022, Cloudflare, one of the world's leading Internet infrastructure companies, was on code red alert. Urgent action was needed. The servers of more than 1,000 customers were in agony, assaulted by 26 million requests per second. There was no way to stem the tide. An in-depth investigation was conducted to understand the motives behind the attack. It was already clear that the instigator of the attack was a hacking virtuoso.