DDoS News
DDoS attacks could soon be bigger and more dangerous than ever
Experts say this year’s biggest DDoS attack could be tens of thousands of times bigger than those recorded so far.08 March 2022
Russia shares list of 17,000 IPs allegedly DDoSing Russian orgs
The Russian government shared a list of 17,576 IP addresses allegedly used to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeting Russian organizations and their networks. [...]05 March 2022
Hackers Find a New Way to Deliver Devastating DDoS Attacks
Cybercriminals are exploiting a fleet of more than 100,000 misconfigured servers to knock websites offline.02 March 2022
Log4shell exploits now used mostly for DDoS botnets, cryptominers
The Log4Shell vulnerabilities in the widely used Log4j software are still leveraged by threat actors today to deploy various malware payloads, including recruiting devices into DDoS botnets and for planting cryptominers. [...]02 March 2022
DDOs attackers have found this new trick to knock over websites
A theoretical attack becomes real.02 March 2022
Content filtering devices abused for 65x DDoS amplification
Researchers have identified an alarming new trend in DDoS attacks that target middlebox devices to attain enormous 6,533% amplification levels. With such an amplification level, threat actors can launch catastrophic attacks with limited bandwidth/equipment. [...]01 March 2022
DDoS Attempts Hit Russia as Ukraine Conflict Intensifies
Plus: Hacker recruits, NFT thefts, and more of the week’s top security news.26 February 2022
Ukrainian gov't sites, banks disrupted by DDoS amid invasion fears
Cloudflare said the attack was "relatively modest compared to large DDoS attacks we've handled in the past."23 February 2022
Ukrainian government and banks once again hit by DDoS attacks
The sites of several Ukrainian government agencies (including the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Internal Affairs, the Security Service, and the Cabinet of Ministers), and of the two largest state-owned banks are again targeted by Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. [...]23 February 2022
Russia Was Behind DDoS Attacks Against Ukraine, US Officials Say
Plus: A crypto crime crackdown, Roblox ripoffs, and more of the week’s top security news.19 February 2022
White House pins Ukraine DDoS attacks on Russian GRU hackers
Today, the White House has linked the recent DDoS attacks that knocked down the sites of Ukrainian banks and defense agencies to Russia's Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (also known as GRU). [...]18 February 2022
Ukraine DDoS: 'Cyberattack' or Not?
The country was hit by a distributed denial-of-service attack earlier this week, but some say that doesn't rise to the level of "cyberattack." Here's why they're wrong.
18 February 2022
Ukrainian DDoS Attacks Should Put US on Notice–Researchers
On Tuesday, institutions central to Ukraine’s military and economy were hit with denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Impact was limited, but the ramifications are not.
17 February 2022
Ukraine Defense and Bank Networks DDoS-ed
Russia suspected of intensifying cyber-attacks16 February 2022
Ukrainian military agencies, state-owned banks hit by DDoS attacks
The Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces of Ukraine and two of the country's state-owned banks, Privatbank (Ukraine's largest bank) and Oschadbank (the State Savings Bank), are being hammered by Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. [...]15 February 2022
Ukrainian military agencies, banks hit by DDoS attacks, defacements
The Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces of Ukraine and two of the country's state-owned banks, Privatbank (Ukraine's largest bank) and Oschadbank (the State Savings Bank), are being hammered by Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. [...]15 February 2022
Ukraine Ministry of Defense confirms DDoS attack; state banks loses connectivity
The websites of Ukraine's defense ministry as well as state banks Privatbank and Oschadbank were down on Tuesday due to an alleged DDoS attack.15 February 2022
DDoS Attacks on a Tear in Q4 2021
New data from Kaspersky shows distributed denial-of-service attacks increased by more than 50% in the fourth quarter of last year compared with the third quarter.11 February 2022
DDoS Attacks Hit All-time High
More DDoS attacks recorded in Q4 2021 than at any point in history, with US most targeted country10 February 2022
Microsoft: Here's how we stopped the biggest ever DDoS attack
Microsoft details how Azure helped mitigate a 3.47 terabytes per second distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.31 January 2022