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Cyber warfare, Cyber-crime

Russia-aligned hackers take down French state services in massive DDoS attack

March 12, 2024

Via: CSO Online

Anonymous Sudan, a Russian-speaking hacktivist group, has claimed the severe distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that disrupted several French government services on Monday. In a statement issued on Monday, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal’s office confirmed that a series of […]


Threats & Malware, Vulnerabilities

Fortinet’s week to forget: Critical vulns, disclosure screw-ups, and that toothbrush DDoS attack claim

February 9, 2024

Via: The Register

We’ve had to write the word “Fortinet” so often lately that we’re considering making a macro just to make our lives a little easier after what the company’s reps will surely agree has been a week sent from hell. It […]


Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware

After ChatGPT, Anonymous Sudan took down the Cloudflare website

November 10, 2023

Via: Security Affairs

The hacktivist group Anonymous Sudan claimed responsibility for the massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that took down the website of Cloudflare. Cloudflare confirmed that a DDoS attack took down its website for a few minutes and ponited out that it […]


Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware

HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Zero-Day Largest DDoS Attack in Internet History

October 12, 2023

Via: SecureWorld

In recent months, the cybersecurity world has been shaken by the revelation of a sophisticated and unprecedented cyber threat: the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Zero-Day vulnerability. This exploit, tracked as CVE-2023-44487, enabled cybercriminals to orchestrate what has been dubbed the largest […]


Cloud security, Security

Microsoft Blames Massive DDoS Attack for Azure, Outlook, and OneDrive Disruptions

June 19, 2023

Via: The Hacker News

Microsoft on Friday attributed a string of service outages aimed at Azure, Outlook, and OneDrive earlier this month to an uncategorized cluster it tracks under the name Storm-1359. “These attacks likely rely on access to multiple virtual private servers (VPS) […]


Network security, Security

Top 7 common Cybersecurity Myths — Busted

December 21, 2021

Via: The Hacker News

Even with the growing awareness about cybersecurity, many myths about it are prevalent. These misconceptions can be a barrier to effective security. The first step to ensure the security of your business is to separate the false information, myths, and […]


Cloud security, Security

Microsoft Fended Off a Record 2.4 Tbps DDoS Attack Targeting Azure Customers

October 12, 2021

Via: The Hacker News

Microsoft on Monday revealed that its Azure cloud platform mitigated a 2.4 Tbps distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in the last week of August targeting an unnamed customer in Europe, surpassing a 2.3 Tbps attack stopped by Amazon Web Services in […]


Hacker, Threats & Malware

Turkish National Charged for DDoS Attack on U.S. Company

September 30, 2021

Via: Security Week

The man, Izzet Mert Ozek, 32, allegedly used the WireX botnet, which consists mainly of compromised Android devices, to orchestrate a DDoS attack targeting the victim company’s website, thus preventing users from completing hotel bookings. The attack took place in […]


Network security, Security, Threats & Malware, Vulnerabilities

Major blackouts across Puerto Rico. Are the DDoS and the fire linked?

June 14, 2021

Via: Security Affairs

A large fire at the Luma’s Monacillo electrical substation in San Juan for Puerto Rico’s new electricity provider, Luma Energy, caused major blackouts across Puerto Rico on Thursday. “The fire caused major blackouts across the entire island. The situation is […]


Cyber-crime, Malware

Several DDoS Attack Records Broken in 2020

January 26, 2021

Via: Security Week

In a report published on Tuesday, Akamai said it saw the largest global DDoS extortion campaign, more customers attacked than in any other previous year, the largest ever attack in terms of million packets per second (Mpps), and a record […]


Network security, Security

Google Targeted in Record-Breaking 2.5 Tbps DDoS Attack in 2017

October 19, 2020

Via: Security Week

When measuring DDoS attacks, Google looks at three main metrics: bits per second (bps) for attacks targeting network links, requests per second (rps) for attacks targeting application servers, and packets per second (pps) for attacks targeting DNS servers and network […]


Cyber-crime, Malware

FBI arrested a Russian national for recruiting employee of US firm to plant malware

August 26, 2020

Via: Security Affairs

US authorities arrested the Russian national Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov (27) after attempting to recruit an employee at a targeted company to plant a piece of malware. The man was arrested on August 22 and appeared in court on August 24. […]


Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware

T-Mobile Outage Mistaken for Massive DDoS Attack on U.S.

June 16, 2020

Via: Security Week

The incident started around noon and continued to impact T-Mobile’s network throughout the day, leaving millions without voice and text service. For some, data connectivity was also impacted. Hours into the outage, T-Mobile President of Technology Neville Ray took it […]


Hacker, Network security, Security, Threats & Malware

DDoS attack on US Health agency part of coordinated campaign

March 18, 2020

Via: Naked Security

Just because a website offers critical public information about the COVID-19 virus pandemic doesn’t mean Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attackers won’t be out to get it. It’s a point underscored by the news that on Sunday cybercriminals attempted to […]


Network security, Security

What Is a DDoS Attack?

February 14, 2020

Via: Security Intelligence

After 20 years of prominence, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks may be causing more devastating effects than ever. The first DDoS attack occurred way back on July 22, 1999 when a network of 114 computers infected with a malicious script called […]


Cyber warfare, Cyber-crime

Companies increasingly reporting attacks attributed to foreign governments

January 15, 2020

Via: Help Net Security

More than one in four security managers attribute attacks against their organization to cyberwarfare or nation-state activity, according to Radware. Nation-state intrusions soaring In 2018, 19% of organizations believed they were attacked by a nation-state. That figure increased to 27% […]


Network security, Security

The Evolution of IoT Attacks

August 30, 2018

Via: Radware Blog

What is the Internet of Things (IoT)? IoT is the ever-growing network of physical devices with embedded technologies that connect and exchange data over the internet. If the cloud is considered someone else’s computer, IoT devices can be considered the […]


Mobile security

Google removes 300 Android apps following DDoS attack

September 4, 2017

Via: We Live Security

Google has been forced to remove almost 300 apps from its Play Store after learning that apps were being hijacked for DDoS attacks, an attack that ESET warned its followers on social media about in early August. The botnet, named […]


Cyber warfare

New Breed of DDoS Attack On the Rise

April 13, 2017

Via: Dark Reading

Over the years, threat actors have abused a variety of services including DNS, SNMP, and NTP to enable and amplify distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against their targets. A new method that appears to be gaining favor among attackers involves the […]


Vulnerabilities

BIND Updates Patch Three Vulnerabilities

April 13, 2017

Via: Security Week

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) announced this week that updates released for the DNS software BIND patch several denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities that can be exploited remotely. BIND versions 9.9.9-P8, 9.10.4-P8 and 9.11.0-P5 address three new security holes that could lead […]