Malwarebytes

MARCH 10, 2025

Dark Storm Team, which shared the message publicly, was reportedly created in 2023 and has a history of launching attacks that can disrupt websites by sending massive traffic their way. Twitter has been taken offline by Dark Storm Team read one message on the messaging and social media platform Telegram.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Sanders spent most of 2023 in Ukraine, traveling with Ukrainian soldiers while mapping the shifting landscape of Russian crypto exchanges that are laundering money for narcotics networks operating in the region. Selectel, Netwarm UK, Beget, Timeweb and DDoS-Guard). ” Cryptomus did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

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The Hacker News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

have charged two Sudanese brothers with running a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet for hire that conducted a record 35,000 DDoS attacks in a single year, including those that targeted Microsoft's services in June 2023. Federal prosecutors in the U.S.

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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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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 31, 2024

January Release of the 2023 Global DDoS Landscape Report In the 2023 Global DDoS Landscape Report, NSFOCUS proposed important insights on global DDoS threats. The post Shining Moments for NSFOCUS DDoS Defense in 2024 appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Dark Reading

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Ongoing Rapid Reset DDoS flood attacks exposed organizations need to patch CVE-2023-44487 immediately to head off crippling outages and business disruption.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Akamai announced it has mitigated the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on a U.S. Cybersecurity firm Akamai successfully identified and prevented a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeting an unnamed, leading American financial institution. financial company. gigabits per second.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Anonymous Sudan launched a DDoS attack against Telegram after the company suspended the account of the group. The hacker collective Anonymous Sudan (aka Storm-1359) has launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Telegram in retaliation for the suspension of their primary account.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack took the site of the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) down. A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack took the site of the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) down for some days.

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Penetration Testing

MAY 23, 2024

Researchers from Tsinghua University have unveiled a potent new method for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, dubbed DNSBomb (CVE-2024-33655).

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

These botnets, networks of compromised devices, can perform attacks without the user realizing it, overwhelming networks, spreading spam, and even launching DDoS attacks. million, almost an increase of $1 million from 2023 , proving that these "vampires" are more active—and greedier—than ever.

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Appknox

JANUARY 11, 2023

DDoS attacks are rising, and hosts find it harder to prevent them. Distributed Denial of Service attack or DDoS attack is a malicious act of sending numerous requests to a target, usually to a website or server, to make it impossible for legitimate users to access the site.

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The Hacker News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloudflare, and Google on Tuesday said they took steps to mitigate record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that relied on a novel technique called HTTP/2 Rapid Reset. The layer 7 attacks were detected in late August 2023, the companies said in a coordinated disclosure.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Cloudflare mitigated thousands of hyper-volumetric HTTP distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks exploiting the flaw HTTP/2 Rapid Reset. Cloudflare DDoS threat report of 2023 states that the company has mitigated thousands of hyper-volumetric HTTP distributed denial-of-service attacks. China, Brazil, Germany, and Indonesia.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The past week has been an eventful one for cybersecurity vulnerabilities, from record DDoS attacks and three Microsoft zero-days to vulnerabilities in Linux, Apple, Citrix, and other widely used technologies. The botnet compromises these devices and enlists them in its DDoS swarm by exploiting several vulnerabilities in them.

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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. However CBSA has not attributed the DDoS attack to the Pro-Russia group. ” reported the Canadian media outlet La Presse. ” reads the alert.

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2024

OVHcloud successfully mitigated a record-breaking DDoS attack in April, which reached 840 million packets per second (Mpps). The cloud services provider OVHcloud announced it has mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack earlier this year. ” reads the post published by OVHcloud.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A Mirai-based DDoS botnet tracked as IZ1H9 has added thirteen new exploits to target routers from different vendors, including D-Link, Zyxel, and TP-Link. The experts observed a surge in botnet activity in September 2023 and reported that it “has aggressively updated its arsenal of exploits.” ” concludes the analysis.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2024

. “The Dutch police have conducted a cybercrime investigation into the large dual dark web market ‘Bohemia/Cannabia’ This was a dark web market where illegal goods, such as drugs, and DDoS attacks were offered. It is the largest and longest running international dark web market of all time worldwide.” million euros.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 14, 2022

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks can cripple an organization, a network, or even an entire country, and they show no sign of slowing down. DDoS attacks may only make up a small percentage of security threats, but their consequences can be devastating. According to Imperva Research Labs, DDoS attacks tend to come in waves.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

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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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

We conducted an analysis of the IoT threat landscape for 2023, as well as the products and services offered on the dark web related to hacking connected devices. In the first half of 2023, 97.91% of password brute-force attempts registered by our honeypots targeted Telnet, and only 2.09%, SSH. Our advantages: 1.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2023

A new DDoS technique named ‘HTTP/2 Rapid Reset’ is actively employed in attacks since August enabling record-breaking attacks. Researchers disclosed a new zero-day DDoS attack technique, named ‘HTTP/2 Rapid Reset’, that was exploited since August in record-breaking attacks. This included every modern web server.”

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Bleeping Computer

JUNE 20, 2023

A new DDoS-as-a-Service botnet called "Condi" emerged in May 2023, exploiting a vulnerability in TP-Link Archer AX21 (AX1800) Wi-Fi routers to build an army of bots to conduct attacks. [.]

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

What cyberthreats for business will be the greatest in 2023? The ongoing geopolitical storm brings not only classical cyberthreats for business, but also unpredictable risks and ‘black swans’ The main problem for 2023 will be supply-chain stability and cybersecurity. Threat modeling approaches will be changed in 2023.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 1, 2023

A report published by Radware found that, in two months alone, hacktivists claimed to launch more than 1,800 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in the hopes of advancing various political and religious causes. The post Radware Report Sees Religion Fueling More DDoS Attacks appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Bleeping Computer

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The number of hyper-volumetric HTTP DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks recorded in the third quarter of 2023 surpasses every precedent, indicating that the field has entered a new chapter. [.]

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 27, 2025

In May 2024, KrebsOnSecurity published a deep dive on Stark , which has repeatedly been used to host infrastructure for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, phishing, malware and disinformation campaigns from Russian intelligence agencies and pro-Kremlin hacker groups.

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Heimadal Security

MAY 10, 2023

AndoryuBot new malware aims to infect unpatched Wi-Fi access points to enlist them in DDoS attacks. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2023-25717 and enables hackers to perform remote code execution (RCE) by sending unauthenticated HTTP GET requests to unpatched devices. […] The post Warning!

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Security Boulevard

MAY 4, 2023

On April 25, 2023, researchers at Bitsight and Curesec jointly discovered a high-severity vulnerability — tracked as CVE-2023-29552 — in the Service Location Protocol (SLP), a legacy Internet protocol. The post CVE-2023-29552: Abusing the SLP Protocol to Launch Massive DDoS Amplification Attacks appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Heimadal Security

JUNE 29, 2023

In the early months of 2023, the cybersecurity landscape faced an alarming surge in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, posing significant challenges for organizations worldwide. Attackers have continued to […] The post Cybersecurity Faces Challenges as DDoS Attacks Surge appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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Heimadal Security

JULY 21, 2023

Multiple DDoS botnets have actively exploited a critical vulnerability discovered in Zyxel firewall models, as revealed by cybersecurity researchers. Tracked as CVE-2023-28771, this flaw explicitly impacts Linux platforms and enables remote attackers to gain unauthorized control over vulnerable systems, effectively launching DDoS attacks.

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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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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2023

Researchers warn of several DDoS botnets exploiting a critical flaw tracked as CVE-2023-28771 in Zyxel devices. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researchers warned of multiple DDoS botnets exploiting a vulnerability impacting multiple Zyxel firewalls. Mirai botnets are frequently used to conduct DDoS attacks.”

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This exploit, tracked as CVE-2023-44487 , enabled cybercriminals to orchestrate what has been dubbed the largest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack ever recorded, targeting multiple internet infrastructure companies. At one point in time, most people thought DDoS attacks were going to go extinct like the dodo bird.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2023

A collective known as Anonymous Sudan (aka Storm-1359) claimed responsibility for the DDoS attacks that hit the company’s services. Threat actors relied on access to multiple virtual private servers (VPS) in conjunction with rented cloud infrastructure, open proxies, and DDoS tools. ” states SpiderLabs. .”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 25, 2023

A DDoS Attack is the bombardment of fake internet traffic onto an application server, thus disrupting its operations, leading to its unavailability to genuine traffic. Assigned with an ID tag of CVE- 2023-29552, the flaw if exploited can impact over 2,000 organizations and can spill data from over 54,000 SLP instances….

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