Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2025

Over the weekend, Italy faced new waves of DDoS attacks carried out by pro-Russia group NoName057(16). Italy should start helping itself, especially in the area of its own cybersecurity.” In September 2022, Avast researchers observed the group using the Bobik botnet to launch DDoS attacks.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Experts see the latest DDoS attacks against Israel as a case study in the effectiveness of simple, brute-force cybersecurity attacks, even against the most sophisticated targets. The post New DDoS attacks on Israel’s enterprises should be a wake-up call appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 5, 2025

The massive Eleven11bot has compromised more than 86,000 IoT devices, including security cameras and network video recorders, to launch hundreds of DDoS attacks, and security researchers say the threat actors behind the botnet are trying to grow it even more.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Pro-Russia group NoName057 targets Italian sites, including Malpensa and Linate airports, in a new DDoS campaign amid rising geopolitical tensions. The pro-Russia group NoName57 continues its campaign of DDoS attacks against Italian infrastructure. At the time of this writing, the websites are still facing problems.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 13, 2025

In this article, we'll explore how AI enhances cybersecurity, its key benefits, and why businesses are increasingly relying on AI-driven security solutions. How does AI work in cybersecurity? This speeds up response times and reduces the burden on cybersecurity teams.

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Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A vulnerability in the HTTP/2 network protocol is currently being exploited, resulting in the largest DDoS attack in history. Find out what security teams should do now, and hear what Cloudflare's CEO has to say about this DDoS.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 27, 2025

Jamison Utter , security evangelist at A10 Networks , a supplier of network performance and DDoS defense technologies, offers another lens: adversaries are racing ahead, using AI to craft malware and orchestrate attacks at speeds no human scripter could match. Theres a pattern here.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 1, 2022

As CIOs and CTOs are getting extremely worried about distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS), here’s a brief article that can help to enlighten their mind on protecting their corporate networks, without the need of any professional help. Running a DDoS Testing- It is essential, although it is a 3 hour effort to conduct.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Cybersecurity reporter Kim Zetter notes that DHS didn’t cite any specific justification for its ban in 2017, but media reports quoting anonymous government officials referenced two incidents. But in September 2017, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) barred U.S.

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Lohrman on Security

AUGUST 14, 2022

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released tools this past week to help protect the upcoming midterm elections against ransomware, phishing and DDoS attacks.

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Graham Cluley

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

No, three million smart toothbrushes didn’t launch a DDoS attack against a Swiss company.

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The Hacker News

AUGUST 2, 2024

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack campaign targeting misconfigured Jupyter Notebooks. The activity, codenamed Panamorfi by cloud security firm Aqua, utilizes a Java-based tool called mineping to launch a TCP flood DDoS attack.

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SecureBlitz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

For those currently working on metaverse creation, we strongly recommend that you address the issues of protection against DDoS attacks and resilience to DDoS impacts in advance. The post DDoS Attacks On Metaverses: What Is The Threat? appeared first on SecureBlitz Cybersecurity. Metaverses – At […].

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks seek to cripple a corporate resource such as applications, web sites, servers, and routers, which can quickly lead to steep losses for victims. However, DDoS attackers sometimes even target the specific computers (or routers) of unwary people – often to harass video gamers, for example.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In Q3 2022, DDoS attacks were, more often than not, it seemed, politically motivated. As before, most news was focused on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, but other high-profile events also affected the DDoS landscape this quarter. The attackers stated on Telegram that they were “testing a new DDoS method.”

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The Hacker News

JULY 4, 2024

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new botnet called Zergeca that's capable of conducting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Functionally, Zergeca is not just a typical DDoS botnet; besides supporting six "Functionally, Zergeca is not just a typical DDoS botnet; besides supporting six

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Tech Republic Security

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Expert pleads with companies to realize they are potential attack victims, no matter their size.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

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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Security Boulevard

JUNE 20, 2023

The post Microsoft Repeatedly Burned in ‘Layer 7’ DDoS appeared first on Security Boulevard. Unlucky number: Time and again this month, “Russian” hackers bring down Microsoft clouds.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 30, 2024

A report by Radware finds that DDoS attacks are increasing not only in number and volume, some lasting as long as 100 hours over six days. The post Radware Report Surfaces Increasing Waves of DDoS Attacks appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2022

360 Qihoo reported DDoS attacks launched by APT-C-53 (aka Gamaredon) conducted through the open-source DDoS Trojan program LOIC. “We found that multiple C2 servers distributed an open-source DDoS Trojan program LOIC compiled by.net from March 4th to 5th, 2022.” ” reads the analysis published by 360 Qihoo.

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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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SecureBlitz

MAY 10, 2024

Here, I will show you how to strengthen DDoS Protection with Threat Intelligence… When your adversaries get more creative, your defense has to get smarter. For businesses facing the threat of DDoS attacks, which means gaining greater insight into the weapons targeting your network and how best to act against them.

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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

APRIL 17, 2022

Enemybot is a DDoS botnet that targeted several routers and web servers by exploiting known vulnerabilities. Researchers from Fortinet discovered a new DDoS botnet, tracked as Enemybot, that has targeted several routers and web servers by exploiting known vulnerabilities. Upon installing the threat, the bot drops a file in /tmp/.pwned

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 10, 2025

These attacks, called Distributed Denial of Service or DDoS, attacks, are one of the most common form of cyberattacks online, and have been used to disrupt major companies online services. We dont just report on threatswe remove them Cybersecurity risks should never spread beyond a headline.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 10, 2023

While much of the world anticipated hunts for colored eggs, chocolate bunnies and family dinners on Sunday, Black Kite was busy sounding the alarm about an expected swan song from Killnet that could involve “high-impact” DDoS attacks on NATO critical infrastructure targets. “A The post Final Act?

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 30, 2023

UK National Crime Agency nips it in the bud: Aims to scare straight naughty DDoS kiddies. The post Brits Slap Wrists of DDoS Kids, via NCA’s Fake Booter Sites appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Tech Republic Security

JANUARY 25, 2023

A new study finds that due to the growing threat surface from hybrid work and third-party vendors, only half of organizations have the budget to meet current cybersecurity needs. The post Survey: Cybersecurity budgets aren’t matching cybersecurity challenges appeared first on TechRepublic.

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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 Boulevard

OCTOBER 10, 2024

A user authentication database was stolen from the nonprofit , which also was been beset by a series of DDoS attacks, and a pro-Palestinian threat group has taken credit for the attacks and the data breach. The post Internet Archive is Attacked and 31 Million Files Stolen appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Tech Republic Security

JUNE 6, 2023

The post Verizon 2023 DBIR: DDoS attacks dominate and pretexting lead to BEC growth appeared first on TechRepublic. In Verizon’s just-released 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report, money is king, and denial of service and social engineering still hold sway.

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Tech Republic Security

JULY 14, 2023

The Scarleteel threat targets AWS Fargate environments for data theft and more malicious types of attacks such as cryptojacking and DDoS. Learn how to mitigate this threat.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 28, 2020

The United Kingdom’s anti-cybercrime agency is running online ads aimed at young people who search the Web for services that enable computer crimes, specifically trojan horse programs and DDoS-for-hire services. NCA Senior Manager David Cox said the agency is targeting its ads to U.K. The ads link to advertorials and to the U.K.’s

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Cybersecurity is crucial for national security in the digital world, where major powers clash over their interests. 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.

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Penetration Testing

JANUARY 20, 2025

The behavior of ChatGPTs web crawler can be exploited through a discovered vulnerability: under specific query conditions, OpenAI’s The post ChatGPT Crawler Vulnerability: DDoS Attacks via HTTP Requests appeared first on Cybersecurity News.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 26, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) have released an updated joint guide to help organizations defend against the persistent threat of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

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