A Swedish digital rights nonprofit said on Thursday that it has observed a targeted campaign of DDoS attacks that appear to be linked to the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and Army. click...
An analysis by Nokia Deepfield found that there has been a massive increase in high-bandwidth, volumetric DDoS attacks, the majority of which originate from just a few dozen hosting companies. click here to read...
The Qatar-based Al-Jazeera Media Network says that it was subjected to a series of cyber-hacking attempts to penetrate some of its platforms and websites between June 5 and 8, 2021. click here to read...
Proofpoint reported about a new DDoS extortion activity by a threat actor group called Fancy Lazarus. It was observed extorting funds from various organizations operating in the energy, financial, and manufacturing sectors, among others....
News overview Q1 2021 saw the appearance of two new botnets. News broke in January of the FreakOut malware, which attacks Linux devices. Cybercriminals exploited several critical vulnerabilities in programs installed on victim devices,...
Security researchers have found extreme domain name system (DNS) fixes that hackers may use to conduct constructive denial-of-service attacks on authoritative DNS servers. The bug they refer to as TsuNAME has been discovered by...
The sector made a jump from sixth place in Q4 2020 to become the number-one DDoS target in Q1 2021, followed by the consumer services industry, and the security and investigations industry. click here...
Two high-ranked players of the Apex Legends game have been banned from the platform for cheating by launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on an Xbox server. click here to read full Article Read more...
We’re only three months into 2021, and Akamai has mitigated 3 out of the 6 largest DDoS attacks they have ever witnessed. Two of these hit the same company on the same day, and...
The protocol abused is known as Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) that offers data congestion procedures for UDP-based communications. click here to read full Article Read more on computer hacking news
DDoS-for-hire services are now actively abusing misconfigured or out-of-date Datagram Transport Layer Security (D/TLS) servers to amplify Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. click here to read full Article Read more on computer hacking...
The number of attacks almost doubled between February to September 2020. More than 50 million attacks were observed in the span of a year, according to a recent report. click here to read full...
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a malicious form of attack that disrupts the regular network traffic by overwhelming the website with more traffic than the server can handle. The main aim of...
To pressurize its victims for paying up the ransom quickly, REvil gang has started launching DDoS attacks and calling victims’ business partners and journalists in an attempt to publicize the breach news. click here...
An automated TDoS attack makes use of VoIP software and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) to make tens or hundreds of calls, simultaneously or in rapid succession to jam targeted services. Click here for image...
News overview Cybercriminals are constantly on the lookout for means and methods to make attacks more destructive. In Q4 2020, Citrix ADC (application delivery controller) devices became one such tool, when perpetrators abused their DTLS...
