LockBit, ALPHV, and Other Ransomware Gang Leak Sites Hit by DDoS Attacks

LockBit, ALPHV, and Other Ransomware Gang Leak Sites Hit by DDoS Attacks A sweeping effort to prevent a raft of targeted cybercrime groups from posting ransomware victims' data publicly is hampering their operations, causing outages.
09 September 2022

Ransomware gang's Cobalt Strike servers DDoSed with anti-Russia messages

Someone is flooding Cobalt Strike servers operated by former members of the Conti ransomware gang with anti-Russian messages to disrupt their activity. [...]
07 September 2022

Top ransomware group hit with DDoS attack, complains about injustice

Hackers are getting a taste of their own medicine with a DDoS attack.
23 August 2022

WordPress sites hacked with malware-laden fake Cloudflare DDoS alerts

Hackers are preying on people that don't understand how DDoS protection works.
23 August 2022

Fake DDoS Protection Alerts Distribute Dangerous RAT

Fake DDoS Protection Alerts Distribute Dangerous RAT Security vendor Sucuri says adversaries are injecting malicious JavaScript into numerous WordPress websites that triggers phony bot-related checks.
22 August 2022

CISA is warning of high-severity PAN-OS DDoS flaw used in attacks

A recent vulnerability found in Palo Alto Networks' PAN-OS has been added to the catalog of Known Exploitable Vulnerabilities from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). [...]
22 August 2022

LockBit ransomware blames Entrust for DDoS attacks on leak sites

The LockBit ransomware operation's data leak sites have been shut down over the weekend due to a DDoS attack telling them to remove Entrust's allegedly stolen data. [...]
22 August 2022

Threat Actor Deploys Raven Storm Tool to Perform DDoS Attacks

The malware is reportedly capable of server takedown, Wi-Fi attacks and application layer attacks
22 August 2022

DDoS Protection Weaponized to Deliver RATs

New campaign disguised as fake Cloudflare pop-up
22 August 2022

WordPress sites hacked with fake Cloudflare DDoS alerts pushing malware

WordPress sites are being hacked to display fake Cloudflare DDoS protection pages to distribute malware that installs the NetSupport RAT and the RaccoonStealer password-stealing Trojan. [...]
20 August 2022

Google says it has blocked another huge DDoS attack

At 46 million rps, the attack was 76% larger than the previous record holder.
19 August 2022

Google: Here's how we blocked the largest web DDoS attack ever

Google Cloud says protected one customer from a Mēris botnet attack that peaked at 46 million requests per second.
19 August 2022

Google blocks largest HTTPS DDoS attack 'reported to date'

A Google Cloud Armor customer was hit with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack over the HTTPS protocol that reached 46 million requests per second (RPS), making it the largest ever recorded of its kind. [...]
18 August 2022

Quarter of All Gambling Sites Hit by DDoS Attacks in June

The attacks reportedly increased in conjunction with the start of the Wimbledon tennis tournament
18 August 2022

Malicious PyPi packages aim DDoS attacks at Counter-Strike servers

A dozen malicious Python packages were uploaded to the PyPi repository this weekend in a typosquatting attack that performs DDoS attacks on a Counter-Strike 1.6 server. [...]
15 August 2022

Palo Alto Networks: New PAN-OS DDoS flaw exploited in attacks

Palo Alto Networks has issued a security advisory warning of an actively exploited high-severity vulnerability impacting PAN-OS, the operating system used by the company's networking hardware products. [...]
12 August 2022

DDoS Attacks Pepper Taiwanese Government Sites

Campaign coincides with speaker Pelosi’s trip
03 August 2022

Akamai blocks largest-ever DDoS attack

Someone targeted a company in Easter Europe with 75 DDoS attacks in a month.
01 August 2022

Akamai blocked largest DDoS in Europe against one of its customers

The cybersecurity company and cloud service provider Akamai reports having mitigated the largest DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack ever to have been recorded in Europe. [...]
28 July 2022

DDoS Attack Trends in 2022: Ultrashort, Powerful, Multivector Attacks

The political situation in Europe and the rest of the world has degraded dramatically in 2022. This has affected the nature, intensity, and geography of DDoS attacks, which have become actively used for political purposes. Find out more in this summary of G-Core Lab's latest DDoS Trends report. [...]
27 July 2022