📰 Series C Investment Round Boosts Grafana Labs' Valuation, The Largest-Ever DDos Attack Stopped in Its Tracks & Sysrv-Hello Botnet Rounding up WordPress Pods in Crypto-Miner Attack

Series C Investment Round Boosts Grafana Labs' Valuation

August 24, 2021, saw Grafana Labs raise $220 million in a fundraiser co-hosted by representatives from new investors, Sequoia Capital, and Coatue, and graced by reputable participants.

1. The investment sees Grafana Labs' valuation boost to $3bn.
2. Former VMware and ServiceNow presidents get seats on the Grafana Labs board following the event.
3. In high spirits, Grafana Labs would be making substantial modifications to the free-forever tier.
4. Grafana Labs has doubled its personnel count over the last year.

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The Largest-Ever DDos Attack Stopped in Its Tracks

Cloudflare, on August 19, 2021, released a report that seized the headlines. The groundbreaking report detailed how Cloudflare's Cloudflare's autonomous edge DDoS protection systems automatically flagged a DDos attack rated at 17.2million request-per-second (rps).

1. The magnitude of this attack has never been recorded in Cloudflare's history of DDoS attacks.
2. The DDoS attack was automatically detected by a nemesis-like security software built by Cloudflare.
3. The main target of this attack was a Cloudflare client rooted in finances.
4. The attack was traced to over 20,000 bots from over half the countries on Planet Earth.
5. The previous most significant DDoS attack in Cloudflare's records was reported at less than 8million rps.

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Sysrv-Hello Botnet Rounding up WordPress Pods in Crypto-Miner Attack

Sysdig Security researchers, on August 26, 2021, released a report underlying malicious activity involving Kubernetes clusters. The attackers were reported to have been deploying Sysrv-Hello Botnet in WordPress pods.

1. The most recent case of botnet malware has been the Sysrv-Hello botnet.
2. Attackers earned initial access through misconfigured WordPress pods.
3. They (hackers) have been very elusive.
4. Their ultimate goal is to invade the system and mine cryptocurrency at scale.
5. The Sysrv-hello operators are actively updating configurations to match new developments.

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