#140 - Intel Chat: 10bn Pwds, Eldorado RaaS, 840Mpps DDoS, regreSSHion & $1.4bn in stolen crypto

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some cutting-edge intel coming out of LimaCharlie's community Slack channel.

• Likely the biggest password leak ever: nearly 10 billion credentials exposed.
• Eldorado is a newly discovered ransomware-as-a-service operation targeting both Windows and Linux systems.
• OVHcloud has reported mitigating a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service attack that peaked at 840 million packets per second.
• Cisco has issued a warning about a critical remote code execution vulnerability named "regreSSHion," tracked as CVE-2024-6387, affecting OpenSSH on glibc-based Linux systems.
• In the first half of 2024, cryptocurrency thefts amounted to $1.4 billion, significantly driven by rising crypto prices and a few large-scale attacks.