The target has been under relentless DDoS attack, which ultimately set a new packets-per-second record for Europe.
16 September 2022
Akamai says it stopped another record-breaking DDoS attack, this time against an Eastern European company.
16 September 2022
A new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that took place on Monday, September 12, has broken the previous record that Akamai recorded recently in July. [...]
15 September 2022
DDoS attacks made up 25 percent of the cyber incidents submitted to the UK's Financial Conduct Authority in the first half of 2022, compared to just four percent in 2021. Analysis by attack simulation specialist Picus Security of information obtained from the FCA under a freedom of information request shows the rise also coincides with a reported increase in DDoS for hire websites and ransomware operators using DDoS as a tactic to pressure and extort money from targets. Picus believes the primary reason for the significant increase in DDoS attacks is UK finance firms being targeted by nation-state attackers and…
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14 September 2022
Overall incidents fell in H1 2022, according to FOI data
14 September 2022
Issue present in pingback requests feature
09 September 2022
A sweeping effort to prevent a raft of targeted cybercrime groups from posting ransomware victims' data publicly is hampering their operations, causing outages.
09 September 2022
Someone is flooding Cobalt Strike servers operated by former members of the Conti ransomware gang with anti-Russian messages to disrupt their activity. [...]
07 September 2022
Hackers are getting a taste of their own medicine with a DDoS attack.
23 August 2022
Hackers are preying on people that don't understand how DDoS protection works.
23 August 2022
Security vendor Sucuri says adversaries are injecting malicious JavaScript into numerous WordPress websites that triggers phony bot-related checks.
22 August 2022
A recent vulnerability found in Palo Alto Networks' PAN-OS has been added to the catalog of Known Exploitable Vulnerabilities from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). [...]
22 August 2022
The LockBit ransomware operation's data leak sites have been shut down over the weekend due to a DDoS attack telling them to remove Entrust's allegedly stolen data. [...]
22 August 2022
The malware is reportedly capable of server takedown, Wi-Fi attacks and application layer attacks
22 August 2022
New campaign disguised as fake Cloudflare pop-up
22 August 2022
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