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Russia launched multiple cyber attacks on Eurovision Song Contest

CyberSecurity Insiders

The IT Company that has been assigned the task to looking into the digital operations of the online voting systems related to the singing contest have declared it officially, that they were registering fake web traffic onto their website and it could be a resultant of the constant Ddos threats emerging from hackers working for Russian Intelligence.

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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. Image: SentinelOne.com.

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The History of Computer Viruses & Malware

eSecurity Planet

In July 2001, the Code Red Worm attempted to subject the entire Internet to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Eventually, the infected computers were all directed to attempt a DDoS specifically on whitehouse.gov, though the White House managed to sidestep the assault. Welcome to [link] Hacked By Chinese!”.

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

2000 — Mafiaboy — 15-year-old Michael Calce, aka MafiaBoy, a Canadian high school student, unleashes a DDoS attack on several high-profile commercial websites including Amazon, CNN, eBay and Yahoo! An industry expert estimates the attacks resulted in $1.2 In one week, the Scientology website is hit with 500 DDoS attacks. .