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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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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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 26, 2022

A distributed denial of service attack, fondly known as DDoS, has reportedly hit North Korea in early hours of Wednesday, bringing down whole of the connectivity to a near halt. South Korea launched the attack in retaliation for the Kim Jong Un’s fifth missile test conducted a few days ago.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 30, 2021

Is your organization prepared to mitigate Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against mission-critical cloud-based applications? A DDoS attack is a cyber attack that uses bots to flood the targeted server or application with junk traffic, exhausting its resources and disrupting service for real human users.

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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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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 Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Iran comes under cyber-attack again, a massive offensive brought down a large portion of the Iranian access to the Internet. Iran infrastructures are under attack, a massive cyberattack brought down a large portion of the Iranian access to the Internet, according to the experts the national connectivity fell to 75%.

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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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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. a global network and cyber security leader, protects enterprises and carriers from advanced cyber attacks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2020

The Greek government announced that a DDoS cyber attack hit the official state websites of the prime minister, the national police and fire service and several important ministries. The websites involved in the attack have been already restored by the government IT staff. said Government spokesman Stelios Petsas.

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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 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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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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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 7, 2023

It is not accurate to say that 5G networks are completely immune to cyber attacks. Like any other network, 5G networks are vulnerable to various types of cyber attacks, such as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, phishing attacks, and malware infections.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 20, 2025

For instance: Heatmaps can visualize areas of high activity that may indicate a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Line graphs tracking login attempts can highlight brute force attacks. Cyber attack data visualization bridges this gap, making technical cyber security data accessible to non-technical audiences.

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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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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

JANUARY 10, 2021

A cyber attack hit the New Zealand central bank, sensitive information has been potentially accessed by the intruders. The New Zealand central bank announced today that a cyber attack hit its infrastructure. The post New Zealand central bank hit by a cyber attack appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Experts warn of a surge in the DDoS attacks against education institutions and the academic industry across the world. The DDoS attacks are causing severe issues to the targeted education institutions such as temporarily takedown of the network and online classes. ” reads the analysis published by CheckPoint.

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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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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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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

One of the most common and dangerous types of attacks is distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), which can hide, coordinate, and scale up to overwhelm a target. DDoS attacks threaten […] The post NSFOCUS Innovative DDoS Protection Technology Secures Your Network Perimeter appeared first on NSFOCUS, Inc.,

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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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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

Austria’s foreign ministry announced that the cyber attack against its systems, allegedly carried by a state actor has ended. This week, the Austrian foreign ministry announced that the cyber attack against its systems has ended. Major cyber ??attacks Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Second is the news related to Asian Nation Pakistan, which accused its neighboring nation India for launching cyber attacks on its government servers related to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Killnet announced it launched a DDoS cyber attack on the network serving the alliance, and is repenting for the in-human deed.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a cyber attack campaign recently that was existing in the wild from the past six years. That can be later used by the threat actors to send spam, launch Ddos attacks disrupting corporate networks in the west. The post DDoS attacks through 1.6

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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

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

APRIL 28, 2020

Timetv.live is the latest Azeri news site targeted by Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks launched by Sandman threat actor, the attack took place on March 21, 2020. Timetv.live is the latest Azeri news site targeted by Denial of Service attacks. Sandman behind the attacks. SecurityAffairs – Sandman , DDoS).

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 22, 2021

Cybersecurity geeks may already know this historical tidbit… The first DDoS attack occurred back in 1999, when a computer at the University of Minnesota suddenly came under attack from a network of 114 other computers infected with a malicious script called Trin00.

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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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

.” The media outlet speculate that the attacks were carried out by financially-motivated foreign hackers that launched multiple attacks against the Indian utilities, including phishing campaigns, ransomware and DDoS attacks, and BGP hijacking. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, power grid).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 8, 2021

Now, news is out that the Republic of China is busy developing Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (SUVs) that have the potential to launch torpedos and cyber attacks on the digital infrastructure available in the vicinity. More details awaited!

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