A government app experiencing slowdowns on election day could be just the tip of the vote-meddling iceberg for the Asian country. But who's behind it?
18 January 2024
Content delivery provider Cloudflare observed a staggering surge in DDoS attacks against environmental services during COP28
15 January 2024
DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) protection occupies a peculiar spot in cybersecurity. While "newer" threats like AI-enabled cybercrime and the ongoing ransomware spree take up many airwaves, DDoS is relatively stable. For many, it's a known quantity. But this is where the problem lies. DDoS has been around for so long, and companies have been mitigating against it for all this time that a knowledge gap is slowly creeping in. Because things change, bad habits get picked up, or common misconceptions go unchallenged and evolve into full-blown myths. Companies might be ‘protecting’ themselves under false pretenses, so it pays to revisit what…
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04 January 2024
By shifting to a more proactive mindset, security professionals and their organizations can blunt the impact of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, if not prevent them altogether.
27 December 2023
NKAbuse, a multi-platform malware written in Go, uses blockchain to ensure anonymity.
15 December 2023
Persistent attack against Blender has been ongoing for days, despite the company doing its best to mitigate it.
23 November 2023
Blender has confirmed that recent site outages have been caused by ongoing DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks that started on Saturday. [...]
22 November 2023
MySQL servers are being targeted by the 'Ddostf' malware botnet to enslave them for a DDoS-as-a-Service platform whose firepower is rented to other cybercriminals. [...]
16 November 2023
DDoS attacks are increasingly taking down even the largest tech companies. Learn more Specops Software on these types of attacks and how you can protect your devices from being recruited into botnets. [...]
16 November 2023
Cado Security Labs said the bot agent exhibited various methods for conducting DDoS attacks
13 November 2023
ChatGPT and the associated APIs have been affected by regular outages, citing DDoS attacks as the reason — the Anonymous Sudan group claimed responsibility.
10 November 2023
Cloudflare is investigating an ongoing outage causing 'We're sorry" Google errors to be shown on the company's website. [...]
09 November 2023
OpenAI reported that recent outages are due to abnormal traffic patterns. Here's what we know so far.
09 November 2023
Periodic outages began on November 8
09 November 2023
ChatGPT experiences three outages in two days – Anonymous Sudan says it’s responsible, and here’s why.
09 November 2023
During the last 24 hours, OpenAI has been addressing what it describes as "periodic outages" linked to DDoS attacks affecting its API and ChatGPT services. [...]
09 November 2023
Russian financial organization Sberbank states in a press release that two weeks ago it faced the most powerful distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in recent history. [...]
08 November 2023
The attack brought down internet connectivity for several organization in Singapore.
06 November 2023
Since HTTP/2 Rapid Reset was found, DDoS attacks have been getting bigger and more powerful.
29 October 2023
The number of hyper-volumetric HTTP DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks recorded in the third quarter of 2023 surpasses every precedent, indicating that the field has entered a new chapter. [...]
26 October 2023