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
At 46 million rps, the attack was 76% larger than the previous record holder.
19 August 2022
Google Cloud says protected one customer from a Mēris botnet attack that peaked at 46 million requests per second.
19 August 2022
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
The attacks reportedly increased in conjunction with the start of the Wimbledon tennis tournament
18 August 2022
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 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
Campaign coincides with speaker Pelosi’s trip
03 August 2022
Someone targeted a company in Easter Europe with 75 DDoS attacks in a month.
01 August 2022
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
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
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The increased proliferation of IoT devices paved the way for the rise of IoT botnets that amplifies DDoS attacks today. This is a dangerous warning that the possibility of a sophisticated DDoS attack and a prolonged service outage will prevent businesses from growing.
26 July 2022
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have become an ongoing threat for organizations. Using a variety of techniques, a wide range of threat actors from lone hackers, criminal gangs and hacktivists to nation-states are using DDoS attacks to disrupt or disable the performance of target systems. These targets can be small or large businesses, internet service providers, manufacturers, retailers, healthcare providers, schools and universities, or other nation-states. Essentially, any entity with an online presence can become a DDoS target. Now, here is the why. There are three main reasons why people create botnets: For financial gain by extortion -- 'pay up…
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25 July 2022
Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG), whose primary goal is to defend Google users from state-sponsored attacks, said today that Russian-backed threat groups are still focusing their attacks on Ukrainian organizations. [...]
19 July 2022
5,000 hijacked machines behind the Mantis botnet have launched 3,000 attacks in the past month.
15 July 2022
The record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that Cloudflare mitigated last month originated from a new botnet called Mantis, which is currently described as "the most powerful botnet to date." [...]
14 July 2022
Lithuanian state-owned energy group hit by pro-Russian hacking group
12 July 2022
Norway's National Security Authority (NSM) published a statement yesterday warning that some of the country's most important websites and online services are being rendered inaccessible due to distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. [...]
30 June 2022
![‘Killnet’ Adversary Pummels Lithuania with DDoS Attacks Over Blockade ‘Killnet’ Adversary Pummels Lithuania with DDoS Attacks Over Blockade](https://media.kasperskycontenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/103/2020/07/06094902/Railway-150x150.jpg)
Cyber collective Killnet claims it won’t let up until the Baltic country opens trade routes to and from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
28 June 2022
The National Cyber Security Center (NKSC) of Lithuania has issued a public warning about a steep increase in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks directed against public authorities in the country. [...]
23 June 2022