Almost 8 million DDoS attacks launched in first half of 2023

Cybercriminals have launched approximately 7.9 million DDoS attacks in the first half of 2023, representing a 31 percent year-on-year increase. A new report from NETSCOUT shows global events like the Russia-Ukraine war and recent NATO bids have driven recent DDoS attack growth. It doesn't really seem to matter which side you're on either. Finland was targeted by pro-Russian hacktivists in 2022 during its bid to join NATO, but Turkey and Hungary were also targeted with DDoS attacks for opposing Finland's bid. The report also sees a trend towards DDoS attacks against wireless telecommunications providers that incurred a 79 percent increase… [Continue Reading]

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Over 700 Dark Web Ads Offer DDoS Attacks Via IoT in 2023

Kaspersky said these services range from $20 per day to $10,000 a month

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'Anonymous Sudan' Sets Its Sights on Telegram in DDoS Attack

Telegram has not stated why it has suspended the group's primary account, but it is likely due to its use of bots.

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Mirai botnet infects Android TV boxes to run DDoS attacks

New variant of the Android Pandora backdoor targets Spanish-speaking Android TV users.

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Mirai variant infects low-cost Android TV boxes for DDoS attacks

A new Mirai malware botnet variant has been spotted infecting inexpensive Android TV set-top boxes used by millions for media streaming. [...]

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German financial agency site disrupted by DDoS attack since Friday

The German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) announced today that an ongoing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack has been impacting its website since Friday. [...]

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Tor Project boosts Onion sites' defense against DoS attacks

A proof-of-work mechanism is included with the new Onion services version to deter attackers. Here's all you need to know.

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DDoS attackers shift their targets

The latest global threat analysis report from Radware shows that DDoS attacks are being reshaped in terms of tactics, vector, size, complexity, and hacktivism. The number of malicious web application transactions skyrocketed by 500 percent compared to the first half of 2022, while the total number of DDoS events decreased by 33 percent. This points to a change in DDoS attack patterns as attacks shift from the network layer to the application layer. Radware's director of threat intelligence Pascal Geenens says: The narrative for the threat landscape in 2023 is clear: a significant shift is taking place in Denial-of-Service attack… [Continue Reading]

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Analyzing Network Chaos Leads to Better DDoS Detection

Suspicious changes in entropy allow researchers to more accurately spot distributed denial-of-service attacks, but false positives remain a problem.

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Russian Hacktivists Overwhelm Spanish Sites With DDoS

Attacks come after Prime Minister’s trip to Kyiv

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Hactivist Group 'Mysterious Team Bangladesh' Goes on DDoS Rampage

The emerging threat has carried out 750 DDoS attacks and 78 website defacements in just one year to support its religious and political motives.

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Israel's largest oil refinery website offline after DDoS attack

Website of Israel's largest oil refinery operator, BAZAN Group is inaccessible from most parts of the world as threat actors claim to have hacked the Group's cyber systems. [...]

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Zyxel Vulnerability Exploited by DDoS Botnets on Linux Systems

Fortinet discovered Multiple DDoS botnets, including Dark.IoT, a variant based on Mirai

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Israel Aided UAE in Defending Against DDoS Attack

Israel's cyber head points finger at Iran-backed MuddyWater APT group as the perpetrator of a recent attack against a university.

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Russian Hacktivist Platform 'DDoSia' Grows Exponentially

As cybercrime amidst the Russia-Ukraine war continues to escalate, the DDoSia project, launched by a known hacktivist group, has exploded in its number of members and quality of tools used for attacks.

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CISA issues DDoS warning after attacks hit multiple US orgs

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned today of ongoing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks after U.S. organizations across multiple industry sectors were hit. [...]

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Pro-Russia DDoSia hacktivist project sees 2,400% membership increase

The pro-Russia crowdsourced DDoS (distributed denial of service) project, 'DDoSia,' has seen a massive 2,400% growth in less than a year, with over ten thousand people helping conduct attacks on Western organizations. [...]

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DDoS attacks more than doubled in 2022

New research from Nexusguard shows that last year DDoS attacks worldwide increased by 115.1 percent over the 2021 level. Attackers have also continued to alter their threat vectors by targeting the application platforms, online databases, and cloud-based storage systems within Internet Service Providers (ISPs). This has resulted in a significantly greater impact globally as organizations continue to move more of their workloads to the cloud. But while the numbers have increased the attacks themselves have been getting smaller. A maximum size of 361.9 gigabits per second (Gbps) represents a 48.2 percent decrease over those measured in 2021. Average attack size… [Continue Reading]

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Diablo IV and other Blizzard games taken down by DDoS attack

Many gamers’ weekends were ruined as Diablo IV and other Blizzard games went offline after a DDoS attack.

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Diablo 4 and other Blizzard games DDoS attacks "have ended", says Blizzard

Blizzard has confirmed that the DDoS attacks that have plagued its games for most of the weekend are now over.

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