Cyber Mornings Daily

Cyber Mornings Daily is your go-to daily podcast for the latest cybersecurity news, trends, and insights, delivered by AI. Each episode delivers a concise and informative breakdown of the most pressing cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and breaches.

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September 3rd, 2025

2025-09-03

Record DDoS, Disney Payout, Fintech Hacked

On today's Cyber Mornings Daily, we discuss Cloudflare's recent mitigation of a record-setting volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 11.5 terabits per second (Tbps), lasting about 35 seconds and primarily originating from Google Cloud. This incident highlights a significant increase in hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks, which rose from 700 in Q1 2025 to 6,500 in Q2 2025, often launched by botnets like RapperBot. We then cover a major privacy development as Disney agrees to pay $10 million to settle claims from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The claims state that Disney illegally collected children's personal data on YouTube by failing to correctly label "kid-directed" videos as "Made for Kids" (MFK), thereby violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA). The settlement also mandates Disney to notify parents before collecting children's data and implement a new program to ensure correct video designation. Finally, we examine a substantial cybercrime attempt where hackers tried to steal $130 million from Sinqia S.A., Evertec's Brazilian subsidiary. The breach occurred on August 29, 2025, when hackers gained unauthorized access to Sinqia’s environment on Brazil's Pix payment system using stolen IT vendor credentials. While some funds have been recovered, the investigation is ongoing, and Sinqia's access to Pix has been temporarily revoked by the Central Bank of Brazil.

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