Russia’s second-largest bank, VTB, is hit with a large DDoS attack causing its apps and website to go offline; “IT Army of Ukraine” claims credit for the attack (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Rasbora.dev:
A developer who ran a DDoS-for-hire “empire” criticizes Cloudflare for protecting the DDoS industry while selling services to mitigate such attacks  —  Today CloudFlare is in the spotlight for their decision to revoke access to a website behind their network …

Brendan Vaughan / Fast Company:
Fast Company brings its site back online after eight days offline, saying a cyberattack hit its CMS and “no customer or advertiser information was disclosed”  —  Eight days.  That’s how long FastCompany.com was offline after we were targeted in a cyberattack, first on the afternoon of Sunday …

Mariella Moon / Engadget:
Blizzard President Mike Ybarra says Overwatch 2 is “experiencing a mass DDoS attack” on its servers, preventing hundreds of users from joining the game’s launch  —  Overwatch 2’s early access launch has been marred by a few bugs and a massive DDoS attack preventing players from getting into the game.

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Researchers find 75 apps on Google Play and 10 on Apple’s App Store that engaged in ad fraud, collectively had 13M installs, and have since been removed  —  Security researchers have discovered 75 applications on Google Play and another ten on Apple’s App Store engaged in ad fraud.

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
McAfee researchers found 16 clicker apps with adware in Google Play with 20M+ downloads in total; Google removed the apps after McAfee reported them  —  Security researchers at McAfee have discovered a set of 16 malicious clicker apps that managed to sneak into Google Play, the official app store for Android.

Reuters:
An investigation finds thousands of iOS and Android apps, including from the CDC and US Army, used Russia-based tech company Pushwoosh’s code for notifications  —  Thousands of smartphone applications in Apple (AAPL.O) and Google’s (GOOGL.O) online stores contain computer code developed …