Russian hacktivists take down Norway govt sites in DDoS attacks

Norway's National Security Authority (NSM) published a statement yesterday warning that some of the country's most important websites and online services are being rendered inaccessible due to distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. [...]

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‘Killnet’ Adversary Pummels Lithuania with DDoS Attacks Over Blockade

Cyber collective Killnet claims it won’t let up until the Baltic country opens trade routes to and from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.

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Lithuania warns of rise in DDoS attacks against government sites

The National Cyber Security Center (NKSC) of Lithuania has issued a public warning about a steep increase in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks directed against public authorities in the country. [...]

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DDoS Attacks Delay Putin Speech at Russian Economic Forum

A Kremlin spokesman said that the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum accreditation and admissions systems were shut down by a DDoS attack.

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Cloudflare says it stopped the largest HTTPS DDoS attack ever

26 million RPS attack, coming from hijacked virtual machines and servers, stopped

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A tiny botnet launched the largest DDoS attack on record

A small but powerful army of just 5,000 devices generated a record-breaking web attack.

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DDoS Subscription Service Operator Gets 2 Years in Prison

The distributed denial-as-a-service websites were behind more than 200K attacks on targets including schools and hospitals.

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Owner of ‘DownThem’ DDoS service gets 2 years in prison

Matthew Gatrel, 33, a citizen of Illinois, has been sentenced to two years in prison for operating platforms offering DDoS (distributed denial of service) services to subscribers. [...]

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Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking HTTPS DDoS attack

Internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare said today that it mitigated a 26 million request per second distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the largest HTTPS DDoS attack detected to date. [...]

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“Downthem” DDoS-for-Hire Boss Gets 2 Years in Prison

A 33-year-old Illinois man was sentenced to two years in prison today following his conviction last year for operating services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against hundreds of thousands of Internet users and websites.

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FBI seizes domains used to sell stolen data, DDoS services

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the U.S. Department of Justice announced today the seizure of three domains used by cybercriminals to sell personal info stolen in data breaches and to provide DDoS attack services. [...]

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Fewer DDoS Attacks in 2021, Still Above Pre-Pandemic Levels

New research finds a rise in TCP acknowledgement (ACK) DDoS attacks, which rely on a smaller amount of traffic to disrupt targets.

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Italy warns organizations to brace for incoming DDoS attacks

The Computer Security Incident Response Team in Italy issued an urgent alert yesterday to raise awareness about the high risk of cyberattacks against national bodies and organizations on Monday. [...]

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Cybergang Claims REvil is Back, Executes DDoS Attacks

Actors claiming to be the defunct ransomware group are targeting one of Akami’s customers with a Layer 7 attack, demanding an extortion payment in Bitcoin.

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DDoS Extortion Attack Flagged as Possible REvil Resurgence

A DDoS campaign observed by Akamai from actors claiming to be REvil would represent a major pivot in tactics for the gang.

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Linux Trojan XorDdos Attacks Surge, Targeting Cloud, IoT

Analysts have seen a massive spike in malicious activity by the XorDdos trojan in the last six months, against Linux cloud and IoT infrastructures .

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Russian Sberbank says it’s facing massive waves of DDoS attacks

Sberbank's vice president and director of cybersecurity, Sergei Lebed, has told participants of the Positive Hack Days forum that the company is going through a period of unprecedented targeting by hackers. [...]

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Microsoft detects massive surge in Linux XorDDoS malware activity

A stealthy and modular malware used to hack into Linux devices and build a DDoS botnet has seen a massive 254% increase in activity during the last six months, as Microsoft revealed today. [...]

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This Russian botnet does far more than DDoS attacks - and on a massive scale

Operators can track social media trends and tailor their propaganda to suit.

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DDoS attacks fell last year but remain above pre-pandemic levels

The number of DDoS attacks dropped 13 percent in 2021 compared to 2020, but remained well above pre-pandemic levels. Research from Nexusguard also shows that while the average attack size fell by 50 percent over 2021, the maximum attack size nearly tripled, growing by a whopping 297 percent over the same period. The top three DDoS attack vectors in 2021 were UDP (user datagram protocol) attacks, DNS amplification attacks, and TCP acknowledgment attacks. UDP remained the most common although it accounted for a smaller percentage of attacks, falling from 59.9 percent in 2020 to 39.1 percent in 2021. DNS amplification… [Continue Reading]

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