March 12, 2024
Via: CSO OnlineAnonymous 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
February 9, 2024
Via: The RegisterWe’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
November 10, 2023
Via: Security AffairsThe 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
October 12, 2023
Via: SecureWorldIn 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 […]
June 19, 2023
Via: The Hacker NewsMicrosoft 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) […]
December 21, 2021
Via: The Hacker NewsEven 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 […]
October 12, 2021
Via: The Hacker NewsMicrosoft 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 […]
September 30, 2021
Via: Security WeekThe 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
June 14, 2021
Via: Security AffairsA 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 […]
January 26, 2021
Via: Security WeekIn 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 […]
October 19, 2020
Via: Security WeekWhen 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 […]
August 26, 2020
Via: Security AffairsUS 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
June 16, 2020
Via: Security WeekThe 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
March 18, 2020
Via: Naked SecurityJust 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 […]
February 14, 2020
Via: Security IntelligenceAfter 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 […]
January 15, 2020
Via: Help Net SecurityMore 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% […]
August 30, 2018
Via: Radware BlogWhat 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 […]
September 4, 2017
Via: We Live SecurityGoogle 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 […]
April 13, 2017
Via: Dark ReadingOver 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 […]
April 13, 2017
Via: Security WeekThe 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 […]