Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 1, 2020

and United Kingdom, running a service that launched distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and for possessing sexually explicit images of minors. The Justice Department says Vaughn and his gang ran a DDoS-for-hire service that they used to shake down victims. The DDoS-for-hire service run by Apophis Squad listed their members.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 7, 2024

CLoudflare just blocked the current record DDoS attack: 3.8 Lots of good information on the attack, and DDoS in general, at the link.) terabits per second. News article.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2019

A couple of high-profile distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks will surely go down in history as watershed events – each for different reasons. Related: IoT botnets now available for economical DDoS blasts. DDoS attacks aren’t going to go away anytime soon. Beyond DDoS. A10 Networks’ report found 6.3

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 3, 2024

Businesses today need protection from increasingly frequent and sophisticated DDoS attacks. Related: The care and feeding of DDoS defenses But to protect their networks, they’ll need to enable accurate attack detection while keeping operations manageable and efficient. A DDoS attack, on the other hand, is distinctly bad news.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 5, 2022

Cloudflare is reporting a large DDoS attack against an unnamed company “operating a crypto launchpad.” HTTPS DDoS attacks are more expensive in terms of required computational resources because of the higher cost of establishing a secure TLS encrypted connection.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 9, 2023

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week seized 13 domain names connected to “ booter ” services that let paying customers launch crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Ten of the domains are reincarnations of DDoS-for-hire services the FBI seized in December 2022, when it charged six U.S.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 6, 2023

Two Russia-associated groups hit Israel and Finland with DDoS attacks, this week. The post DDoS attacks rise as pro-Russia groups attack Finland, Israel appeared first on TechRepublic. Cybersecurity experts say the actions represent a marked increase in exploits and a harbinger of cyberattacks to come.

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Tech Republic Security

JULY 30, 2021

It's all quiet on the DDoS front, but don't get complacent: The lull is expected, said Kaskersky, and new attack vectors could spell a coming resurgence.

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Tech Republic Security

MARCH 24, 2022

The post Nokia: Botnet DDoS attacks are on the rise appeared first on TechRepublic. A study from Nokia outlining the growing number of botnet attacks shows a larger amount of sophistication by hackers.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 3, 2023

“However, after users register, rather than being given access to cyber crime tools, their data is collated by investigators,” reads an NCA advisory on the program. “Users based in the UK will be contacted by the National Crime Agency or police and warned about engaging in cyber crime.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 25, 2022

Having spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, threats such as malware, ransomware, and DDoS attacks continue to accelerate. A10’s security research team recorded a significant spike in the number of potential DDoS weapons available for exploitation in 2021 and early 2022. Related: Apple tools abuse widespread. Key findings follow.

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Lohrman on Security

AUGUST 21, 2022

2022 has brought a surge in distributed denial-of-service attacks as well as a dramatic rise in patriotic hacktivism. What’s ahead for these trends as the year continues?

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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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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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Schneier on Security

JULY 17, 2024

From ZDNet : However, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks continue to be cybercriminals’ weapon of choice, making up over 37% of all mitigated traffic. million unique DDoS attacks. That total is nearly a third of all the DDoS attacks they mitigated the previous year. The scale of these attacks is staggering.

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Tech Republic Security

MAY 23, 2022

The post DDoS attacks decreased in 2021, still above pre-pandemic levels appeared first on TechRepublic. The study from NexusGuard also found that average attack size decreased, while maximum attack size increased threefold.

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Tech Republic Security

JUNE 13, 2023

The assumptions a business shouldn’t make about its DDoS defenses and the steps it should take now to reduce its likelihood of attack. The post DDoS threats and defense: How certain assumptions can lead to an attack appeared first on TechRepublic.

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The Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

German police shut down DDoS-for-hire platform Dstat.cc and arrested two men accused of operating the site used for launching DDoS attacks. German police shut down the DDoS-for-hire platform Dstat.cc that allowed its customers to launch DDoS attacks. Police seized both Dstat.cc

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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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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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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 5, 2022

Known as Borat, a new Trojan spotted by Cyble allows attackers to compile malicious code to launch ransomware campaigns and DDoS attacks on the victim’s machine. The post Remote Access Trojan adds ransomware and DDoS attacks to usual bag of tricks appeared first on TechRepublic.

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The Hacker News

MARCH 26, 2024

Minecraft, with over 500 million registered users and 166 million monthly players, faces significant risks from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, threatening server functionality, player experience, and the game’s reputation. This article explains

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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. Attack chains entail the exploitation

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 14, 2024

DDoS simulation tests fall into a different legal category than real DDoS attacks carried out by hackers. In the United States, for example, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act considers a DDoS attack to be a cybercrime with serious prison time and fines.

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IT Security Guru

JANUARY 3, 2024

Swarming or DDoS attacks pose a threat to streamers. A reliable VPN provider always maintains a DDoS-protected server. link] What’s a DDoS attack? Much like our brains, which can only process so much, web servers targeted by a DDoS attack have their limits. Cybercriminals utilize botnets to launch DDoS attacks.

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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 Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Cloudflare recently mitigated a new record-breaking DDoS attack, peaking at 3.8 Cloudflare reported that starting from early September, it has mitigated over 100 hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks, with many exceeding 2 billion Pps and 3 Tbps. The largest DDoS attack peaked at 3.8 The largest DDoS attack peaked at 3.8

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The Hacker News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Cloudflare has disclosed that it mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 3.8 terabits per second (Tbps) and lasted 65 seconds.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

On Thursday evening, KrebsOnSecurity was the subject of a rather massive (and mercifully brief) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. But on Thursday DDoS protection firm Qrator Labs identified the culprit — “Meris” — a new IoT monster that first emerged at the end of June 2021. In its Aug.

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Bleeping Computer

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A widely reported story that 3 million electric toothbrushes were hacked with malware to conduct distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks is likely a hypothetical scenario instead of an actual attack. [.]

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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 pw" and "ootheca[.]top").

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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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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

JULY 5, 2024

French cloud computing firm OVHcloud said it mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in April 2024 that reached a packet rate of 840 million packets per second (Mpps). The 840 Mpps DDoS attack is said to have been a combination of a TCP

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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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Penetration Testing

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Today, one of the internet giants, Namecheap has been hit by a series of DDoS attacks that threaten to disrupt its operations. Namecheap, an ICANN-accredited domain name registrar, and web hosting company, stands as... The post Breaking News: Namecheap Hit by DDoS Attacks appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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