The sites of Ukrainian agencies (including the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Internal Affairs, the Security Service, and the Cabinet of Ministers), and two banks are again targeted. click here to read full...
News roundup Q4 2021 saw the appearance of several new DDoS botnets. A zombie network, named Abcbot by researchers, first hit the radar in July, but at the time it was little more than...
A Microsoft Azure cloud computing customer in Asia was a victim of a massive 3.47 Tbps DDoS attack (distributed denial of service attack) in November 2021, the software and technology giant Microsoft revealed. click...
The UK’s NCA said data from its National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) reveals a 107% increase in reports from the police cyber prevent network of students deploying DDoS attacks from 2019 to 2020. click...
In the fourth quarter of last year, about a quarter of Cloudflare’s customers that were the target of a DDoS attack said that they received a ransom note from the perpetrator. click here to...
An IP spoofing vulnerability in Django REST allowed attackers to circumvent the framework’s throttling feature, which is supposed to protect applications against mass requests. click here to read full Article Read more on Malware...
Every single day, hundreds of thousands of internet users are victims of some form of cyberattack. The number of hackers is daily growing and so are their strategies. The different forms of malware are...
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) is an old attack pattern, and there are well-known solutions for protecting against DDoS attacks. However, in a cloud-native world, applications behave differently, and attackers are finding ways to...
DDoS attacks started being used as an intimidation tactic in Q3. The criminals sent company-wide emails stating that their resources were being used in DDoS attacks and they could face legal consequences. click here...
Following the incident, the company warned that users might experience failed calls, API and portal latency/time outs, and/or delayed or failed messages until proper resolutions are made. click here to read full Article Read...
Researchers recently reported a massive DDoS campaign involving Pink botnet that had infected millions of devices. It is touted as the largest botnet observed in the last six years. click here to read full...
News overview Q3 2021 brought two new DDoS attack vectors, potentially posing a serious threat, including for major web resources. A team of researchers from the University of Maryland and the University of Colorado...
The FBI has issued a flash alert warning against the HelloKitty ransomware group who recently started threatening victims with DDoS attacks. The group’s ransom demands fluctuate for each victim and are based on their ability...
“In some cases, if the victim does not respond quickly or does not pay the ransom, the threat actors will launch a DDoS attack on the victim company’s public-facing website,” the FBI said. click...
Comms Council UK, which represents over 100 VoIP providers, said “several” of its members and international providers had been hit over the past four weeks as part of a coordinated extortion campaign. click here...
Microsoft revealed that it thwarted a massive DDoS attack of 2.4Tbps. The attack leveraged Microsoft Azure and was launched against a European customer. click here to read full Article Read More on latest vulnerability...
