DDoS News

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A DDoS Attack Wiped Out Andorra's Internet

Plus: Securing US water systems, the FBI's NSO Group dealings, and more of the week's top security news.

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Microsoft says it blocked the largest DDoS attack it's ever seen

DDoS attack had a throughput of 3.47 Tbps and a packet rate of 340 million packets per second

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Microsoft mitigated a record 3.47 Tbps DDoS attack on Azure users

Microsoft says its Azure DDoS protection platform mitigated a massive 3.47 terabits per second (Tbps) distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack targeting an Azure customer from Asia in November. [...]

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Nobel Foundation site hit by DDoS attack on award day

The Nobel Foundation and the Norwegian Nobel Institute have disclosed a cyber-attack that unfolded during the award ceremony on December 10, 2021. [...]

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Link11 Sets New Standards in DDoS Protection as Test Winner

In a recent performance test, cybersecurity provider Link11 was benchmarked against leading international security vendors and emerged as the winner. The study by Frost & Sullivan emphasized the importance of precise detection and speed in mitigating DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks.

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Kids won’t stop launching DDoS attacks against their schools

A new NCA campaign seeks to intervene before children find themselves on the wrong side of cyber laws.

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Revamped Community-Based DDoS Defense Tool Improves Filtering

Team Cymru updates its Unwanted Traffic Removal Service (UTRS), adding more granular controls and greater ranges of both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.

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NCA: Kids as Young as Nine Have Launched DDoS Attacks

Initiative aims to divert young people away from cybercrime

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DDoS attacks soared to new highs in 2021

DDoS attacks posed a significant threat to businesses in the manufacturing industry last year.

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DDoS attacks that come combined with extortion demands are on the rise

There's been a significant increase in cyber criminals demanding ransom payments to stop their disruption of online services with DDoS attacks.

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IP spoofing bug leaves Django REST applications open to DDoS, password-cracking attacks

Security researcher discovers how to send unlimited HTTP requests with the same client

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Extortion DDoS attacks grow stronger and more common

The end of 2021 saw a rise in the number of distributed denial-of-service incidents that came with a ransom demand from the attackers to stop the assault. [...]

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Report: DDoS attacks increasing year on year as cybercriminals demand extortionate payouts

Crooks attempt to cash in by upping the ante

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CDN Cache Poisoning Allows DoS Attacks Against Cloud Apps

A Romanian researcher discovers more than 70 vulnerabilities in how applications and their content delivery networks handle cache misses that open the doors to denial-of-service attacks.

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Original Fix for Log4j Flaw Fails to Fully Protect Against DoS Attacks, Data Theft

Organizations should upgrade ASAP to new version of logging framework released Tuesday by the Apache Foundation, security experts say.

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Apache’s Fix for Log4Shell Can Lead to DoS Attacks

Not only is the jaw-dropping flaw in the Apache Log4j logging library ubiquitous; Apache’s blanket of a quickly baked patch for Log4Shell also has holes.

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Dark web marketplace bites the dust after colossal DDoS attack

A large-scale cannabis marketplace on the dark web has been taken offline for good by a DDoS attack.

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Dark web market Cannazon shuts down after massive DDoS attack

Cannazon, one of the largest dark web marketplaces for buying marijuana products, shut down last week after suffering a debilitating distributed denial of service attack. [...]

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Blizzard confirms Battle.net was taken down by a DDoS attack

DDoS attack on Battle.net lasted about an hour, appears to have affected small subset of players.

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The gaming industry's latest challenge: DDoS protection

Like moths to a flame, hackers always go where the action is. As the COVID-19 pandemic drove work away from the office, businesses have faced one cyberattack after another on their remote work infrastructure. Meanwhile, a boom in virtual entertainment has brought a surge of players to the gaming industry -- and with them, a rise in DDoS attack activity. Cybercrime rings are launching triple extortion campaigns combining DDoS attacks with ransomware, and data theft, while ordinary gamers can rent a botnet easily and affordably to cheat or disrupt competition with a DDoS attack of their own. The highly popular Titanfall 2 game has already been rendered virtually unplayable -- perhaps by as… [Continue Reading]