CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 7, 2023

Outlook.com users have been suffering with intermittent outages from yesterday and news is out that the disruption was caused because of a DDoS cyber attack launched by a hacking group named ‘Anonymous Sudan’. Microsoft acknowledged the outage as true, but failed to label it as a state funded attack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 10, 2022

According to a research carried out by Check Point Research, a 50% rise in cyber attacks is being witnessed year on year and the target points were mostly touted to be the organizations operating in education/research and military or government sectors.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Russia’s second-largest bank VTB Bank reveals it is facing the largest DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack in its history. State-owned VTB Bank, the second-largest financial institution in Russia, says it is facing the largest DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack in its history. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

A massive DDoS cyber attack, likely carried out by Pro-Russia hacker group NoName , severely impacted operations at several Canadian airports last week, reported Recorded Future News. Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) was able to mitigate the attack after a few hours. ” reads the alert.

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Heimadal Security

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The ADV airport association reported that the websites of seven German airports were hit by a suspected cyber attack on Thursday. Düsseldorf, Nuremberg, and Dortmund airports were among those impacted, but the websites for Germany’s three busiest airports: Frankfurt, Munich, and Berlin—were all functioning normally.

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The Hacker News

JANUARY 14, 2024

The environmental services industry witnessed an “unprecedented surge” in HTTP-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, accounting for half of all its HTTP traffic. This surge in cyber attacks coincided

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 1, 2022

has issued a statement that various web portals related to the holy city were hit by abnormal attempts of access and that showed the attack was of a DDoS variant. The post Holy See Vatican website hit by Cyber Attack appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Foremost is the cyber attack that hit a third party IT service provider that operates most of the websites of government agencies related to New Zealand. Second is the news related to Russia’s VTB Bank that has made it official that it was suffering from a cyber attack. As most of the malware can run android apps. .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 6, 2022

Hackers were seen using Jersey computers to cyber attack servers operating in the United States, Germany and Hungary. The compromised machines were acting as devices to launch cyber attacks and the suspicion finger is currently rising towards Russia.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 23, 2022

What are DDOS attack tools? DDOS attacks are cyber- attacks targeted at rendering certain computers, network systems and servers non-functional. Attackers have to carry out a long series of actions that involve social engineering, data breaches and sometimes even system testing.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

A Distributed Denial of Service(DDoS) attack was launched on Canada-based VOIP services provided named VoIP.ms, disrupting its phone calls and other of its web services. are working all day long to recover from the digital attack variant and are sure that the services will be brought back to life by this weekend.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 31, 2023

A cyber-attack has made the staff of Idaho Falls Community Hospitals to divert emergency ambulances elsewhere as it is struggling to mitigate the risks associated with the incident. Meanwhile, on a separate note, the Supreme Court of Greece has ordered a scientific probe into the halt of Greek high school exams by a cyber-attack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Cybersecurity Insiders learnt from its sources that the IT infrastructure of multinational corporation Yandex witnessed a peak in the Denial of service attack, shortly known as DDoS attack on September 5th,2021, i.e. on teachers’ day this year. million RPS attacks on August 7th-9th, 9.6 Go application.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 14, 2022

A 33-year-old Illinois man was sentenced to two years in prison today following his conviction last year for operating services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against hundreds of thousands of Internet users and websites. The user interface for Downthem[.]org. Charles, Ill.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 31, 2023

According to experts from Digital Watchdog RDI, solar panels are now vulnerable to cyber attacks, with hackers targeting the vulnerabilities in the inverters that store energy for powering smartphones, laptops, and small electrical gadgets. Between 2015 and 2021, approximately 16.3

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 27, 2023

Retaliating this move, Kremlin might have thought to take vengeance through cyber-attacks against the west and the first nation to be targeted was Germany. The post Russia starts cyber attacks on the West with Germany for supporting Ukraine appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 19, 2023

According to recent reports, it appears that the European Investment Bank (EIB) has fallen victim to a cyber attack orchestrated by the Russian hacking group known as Killnet. One of the company’s employees fell victim to this attack, highlighting the need for heightened cybersecurity measures and employee awareness.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 21, 2022

A downtime caused on the network of Cloudflare was claimed to be a cyber attack by some online news resources. But the cloud service giant responded by giving a press statement that the disruption caused on Monday this week was because of a network change and not by digital attack.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Government institutions in Bulgaria have been hit by a cyber attack during the weekend, experts believe it was launched by Russian threat actors. The infrastructure of government institutions in Bulgaria has been hit by a massive DDoS attack. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 12, 2023

StormWall , a premier cybersecurity firm specializing in the defense of websites, networks, and online services from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, has published an in-depth report on the DDoS landscape during the first quarter of 2023. of DDoS attacks targeting the application layer (L7), 11.7%

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2022

Cyber Spetsnaz is targeting Lithuanian government resources and critical infrastructure – the recent ban on Russian railway goods has caused a new spike of hacktivist activity on the Dark Web. June 20th one of the units of Cyber Spetnaz called “Zarya” has announced the attack against www.mna.gov.lv Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2023

Microsoft confirmed that the recent outages to the Azure, Outlook, and OneDrive services were caused by cyber attacks. A collective known as Anonymous Sudan (aka Storm-1359) claimed responsibility for the DDoS attacks that hit the company’s services. ” reads the report published by the company.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 25, 2022

Cyber-attacks continue to make headlines, and wreak havoc for organizations, with no sign of abating. Having spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, threats such as malware, ransomware, and DDoS attacks continue to accelerate. Related: Apple tools abuse widespread. A10’s security research … (more…).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2021

The Philippine human rights alliance Karapatan has suffered a massive and prolonged Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, Qurium organizations linked it to the local government. For the past three weeks, the Philippine human rights alliance Karapatan has suffered a heavy and sustained DDoS attack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 25, 2021

On the security front, a research carried out by Cybersecurity Ventures has predicted that the cyber attacks on online business will bring an estimated loss of $6 trillion to companies operating across the globe by 2021 and the gaming industry is said to be impacted the most.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 11, 2023

Royal Mail, the Britain-based postal and courier delivery services, has made an official statement that a cyber attack affected all its it systems because of which its parcel and letter delivery services will be deeply affected. million. .

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Hungarian financial institutions and telecommunications infrastructure were hit by a powerful DDoS attack originating from servers in Russia, China and Vietnam. A powerful DDoS attack hit some Hungarian banking and telecommunication services that briefly disrupted them. ” reported the Reuters agency.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 29, 2022

What are DDOS attack tools? DDOS attacks are cyber- attacks targeted at rendering certain computers, network systems and servers non-functional. Attackers have to carry out a long series of actions that involve social engineering, data breaches and sometimes even system testing.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The Kyivstar cyber attack left millions of Ukrainians without access to cellular or internet services. In […] The post Kyivstar Cyber Attack: Ukraine Telecom Operator Paralyzed appeared first on TuxCare. In […] The post Kyivstar Cyber Attack: Ukraine Telecom Operator Paralyzed appeared first on TuxCare.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 31, 2022

About 3,000 attacks were launched on the infrastructure between May 11 to May 21, and this includes the attack launched on the voting system of the Eurovision Song Contest that witnessed Ukraine winning the competition on a high note. And to a certain extent, the organization succeeded in doing so.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

London based Giant Group has confirmed that its IT infrastructure was suffering repercussions gained through a cyber attack on September 24th,2021 and all its phone, email and other payroll related servers were facing digital disruption.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2023

The Pro-Russia group Killnet is launching a series of DDoS attacks against the websites of US healthcare organizations and hospitals. The Pro-Russia group Killnet launched a series of DDoS attacks against US healthcare organizations and hospitals. In the last week, the pro-Russia group intensified its activity.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The largest and oldest bank in Russia Sberbank faced the record-breaking DDoS attack that reached 1 million RPS. Sberbank , the Russian banking and financial services giant, announced that it was recently hit by a record-breaking distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that reached 1 million RPS.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 23, 2022

A recent study made by security management firm Cymulate has confirmed that 65% of companies have suffered cyber attacks for the second time within one year. According to a report titled Cymulate Data Breaches Study, most of the attacks reached the corporate networks through phishing emails.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 7, 2023

Mention the acronym DDoS to a web admin and they’ll likely break out in a cold sweat. DDoS, or Distributed Denial of Service attacks, are some of the most malicious and difficult-to-stop network attacks that can be launched against a website or any other DDoS-susceptible service, such as a SaaS platform.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

With the disruption, loss of life and heartbreaking images that the Russia-Ukraine conflict has produced, it is easy to overlook what it has meant to the cyber threat landscape. The post Ukraine’s Response to Cyber Threats a Model in DDoS Prevention appeared first on Radware Blog. Even threat actors have taken sides.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 3, 2023

Reports indicate that a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) was launched on the IT infrastructure of the Swedish parliament, disrupting its website services to a significant extent. Killnet is a group assigned the duty to cyber attack all adversaries of Moscow.

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