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DDoS 2.0: IoT Sparks New DDoS Alert

The Hacker News

The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming efficiency in various sectors like healthcare and logistics but has also introduced new security risks, particularly IoT-driven DDoS attacks. This article explores how these attacks work, why they’re uniquely problematic, and how to mitigate them. What Is IoT?

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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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Largest DDoS attack ever reported gets hoovered up by Cloudflare

Malwarebytes

On the Cloudflare blog , the American web infrastructure behemoth that provides content delivery network (CDN) and DDoS mitigation services reports that it detected and mitigated a 17.2 million request-per-second (rps) DDoS attack. The target of this enormous DDoS attack was a customer of Cloudflare in the financial sector.

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Unraveling the truth behind the DDoS attack from electric toothbrushes

Security Affairs

Several media reported that three million electric toothbrushes were compromised and recruited into a DDoS botnet. The Swiss newspaper Aargauer Zeitung first published the news of a DDoS attack, carried out on January 30, that involved three million compromised electric toothbrushes. Is it true? What the f is wrong with you people????

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DDoS explained: How distributed denial of service attacks are evolving

CSO Magazine

What is a DDoS attack? A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is when an attacker, or attackers, attempt to make it impossible for a service to be delivered. In a DoS attack, it’s one system that is sending the malicious data or requests; a DDoS attack comes from multiple systems.

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When Getting Phished Puts You in Mortal Danger

Krebs on Security

When Cloudflare responded by blocking the sites with a phishing warning, the real Internet address of these sites was exposed as belonging to a known “bulletproof hosting” network called Stark Industries Solutions Ltd. “All cases related to state treason [and] terrorism are classified, so there are barely any details.”

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

SecureWorld News

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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