DDoS News
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. [...]14 June 2022
“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.13 June 2022
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. [...]01 June 2022
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.
31 May 2022
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. [...]30 May 2022
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.
26 May 2022
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.
25 May 2022
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 .
23 May 2022
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. [...]20 May 2022
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. [...]19 May 2022
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.19 May 2022
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]19 May 2022
Italian CERT: Hacktivists hit govt sites in ‘Slow HTTP’ DDoS attacks
Italy's Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) has published an announcement about the recent DDoS attacks that key sites in the country suffered in the last couple of days. [...]13 May 2022
Battle.net hit by huge DDoS attack
World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and Call of Duty players were unable to access their accounts.12 May 2022
Pro-Ukraine hackers use Docker images to DDoS Russian sites
Docker images with a download count of over 150,000 have been used to run distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a dozen Russian and Belarusian websites managed by government, military, and news organizations. [...]04 May 2022
A YouTuber is encouraging you to DDoS Russia—how risky is this?
A YouTube influencer with hundreds of thousands of subscribers is encouraging everyone to conduct cyber warfare against Russia. How risky is it and can you get in trouble? [...]01 May 2022
A YouTuber is encouraging everyone to DDoS Russia—how risky is this?
A YouTube influencer with hundreds of thousands of subscribers is encouraging everyone to conduct cyber warfare against Russia. How risky is it and can you get in trouble? [...]01 May 2022
A YouTuber is promoting DDoS attacks on Russia — how legal is this?
A YouTube influencer with hundreds of thousands of subscribers is encouraging everyone to conduct cyber warfare against Russia. How risky is it and can you get in trouble? [...]01 May 2022
One of the Most Powerful DDoS Attacks Ever Hits a Crypto Platform
The onslaught was delivered through HTTPS, which puts more strain on a target, and it suggests that attackers are getting more powerful.30 April 2022