Record-Breaking Year for DDoS Attacks Targeting Russia

ISP Rostelecom says longest attack lasted three months

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Russia’s largest ISP says 2022 broke all DDoS attack records

Russia's largest internet service provider Rostelecom says 2022 was a record year for Distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) targeting organizations in the country. [...]

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Big Prizes, Cash on Offer for Joining 'DDosia' Anti-Ukraine Cyberattack Project

Russia's NoName057(16) group offers incentives and prizes via Telegram channel for "heroes" to mount attacks against targets within Ukraine and pro-Ukrainian countries.

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Multiple Danish Banks Disrupted By DDoS Cyber-Attack

The attack also affected IT financial industry solutions developer Bankdata

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Serbia Slammed With DDoS Attacks

The Serbian government reports that it staved off five attacks aimed at crippling Serbian infrastructure.

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This new Linux malware floods machines with cryptominers and DDoS bots

Linux machines targeted with XMRig malware and being turned into DDoS bots.

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New SHC-compiled Linux malware installs cryptominers, DDoS bots

A new Linux malware downloader created using SHC (Shell Script Compiler) has been spotted in the wild, infecting systems with Monero cryptocurrency miners and DDoS IRC bots. [...]

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War and Geopolitical Conflict: The New Battleground for DDoS Attacks

The effectiveness of attacks largely depends on organizations' distributed denial-of-service defenses.

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Zerobot Adds Brute Force, DDoS to Its IoT Attack Arsenal

Threat actors continue to evolve the malicious botnet, which has also added a list of new vulnerabilities it can use to target devices.

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How AI/ML Can Thwart DDoS Attacks

When properly designed and trained, artificial intelligence and machine learning can help improve the accuracy of DDoS detection and mitigation.

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Microsoft uncovers DDoS campaign targeting Minecraft servers

A simple technique is capable of bringing down “half the world’s” Minecraft servers, Microsoft says.

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Microsoft warns of new Minecraft DDoS malware infecting Windows, Linux

A new cross-platform malware botnet named 'MCCrash' is infecting Windows, Linux, and IoT devices to conduct distributed denial of service attacks on Minecraft servers. [...]

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DDoS Attack Platforms Shut Down in Global Law Enforcement Operation

Sweeping operation took down around 50 popular DDoS platforms, just one of which was used in 30M attacks, Europol says.

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How Gcore uses regular expressions to block DDoS attacks

In DDoS Protection, Gcore uses the bundle of XDP and regular expressions (regex). This article will explain why Gcore started using this solution (regex in XDP) and how they bound them via a third-party engine and API development. [...]

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US DoJ takes down 48 websites running huge "booster" DDoS network

Multinational effort to curb the DDoS-as a service market sees the FBI taking charge in seizures across two states.

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Prosecutors charge six, seizes 48 domains over DDoS-for-hire services

The Department of Justice has filed criminal charges against six people for allegedly renting out sites that were used to block targets' access to the internet.

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Feds Hit DDoS-for-Hire Services with 48 Domain Seizures

Six also charged in connection with booter services

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FBI seized domains linked to 48 DDoS-for-hire service platforms

The US Department of Justice has seized 48 Internet domains and charged six suspects for their involvement in running 'Booter' or 'Stresser' platforms that allow anyone to easily conduct distributed denial of service attacks. [...]

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Six Charged in Mass Takedown of DDoS-for-Hire Sites

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today seized four-dozen domains that sold “booter” or “stresser” services — businesses that make it easy and cheap for even non-technical users to launch powerful Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks designed knock targets offline. The DOJ also charged six U.S. men with computer crimes related to their alleged ownership of the popular DDoS-for-hire services.

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Russia's VTB Bank Suffers its Biggest Ever DDoS

Ukraine suspected of attack on state-owned lender

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