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. [...]

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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? [...]

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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? [...]

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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? [...]

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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.

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Cloudflare Flags Largest HTTPS DDoS Attack It's Ever Recorded

This scale of this month's encrypted DDoS attack over HTTPS suggests a well-resourced operation, analysts say.

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Russian hacktivists launch DDoS attacks on Romanian govt sites

The Romanian national cyber security and incident response team, DNSC, has issued a statement about a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeting several public websites managed by the state entities. [...]

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Hacked WordPress sites used to DDoS Ukrainian targets

Websites declaring pro-Ukrainian stance under attack.

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Ukraine targeted by DDoS attacks from compromised WordPress sites

Ukraine's computer emergency response team (CERT-UA) has published an announcement warning of ongoing DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks targeting pro-Ukraine sites and the government web portal. [...]

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Cloudflare has blocked one of the largest DDoS attacks of all time

A known actor deployed 6,000 bots to deliver a 15.3 million RPS attack.

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Hacktivists' activity drives DDoS volumes to all-time high

The Russia - Ukraine conflict proved to be quite the catalyst for DDoS attacks

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Ukraine Invasion Driving DDoS Attacks to All-Time Highs

Unprecedented numbers of DDoS attacks since February are the result of hacktivists' cyberwar against Russian state interests, researchers say.

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Comcast Business 2021 DDoS Threat Report: DDoS Becomes a Bigger Priority as Multivector Attacks are on the Rise

Comcast Business mitigated 24,845 multi-vector DDoS attacks in 2021, a 47 percent increase over 2020.

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This rapidly expanding botnet is launching DDoS attacks left, right and center

Chinese threat actor is infecting devices with the Fodcha malware.

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New Fodcha DDoS botnet targets over 100 victims every day

A rapidly growing botnet is ensnaring routers, DVRs, and servers across the Internet to target more than 100 victims every day in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. [...]

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New EnemyBot DDoS botnet recruits routers and IoTs into its army

A new Mirai-based botnet malware named Enemybot has been observed growing its army of infected devices through vulnerabilities in modems, routers, and IoT devices, with the threat actor operating it known as Keksec. [...]

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Ransom DDoS attacks have dropped to record lows this year

Extortion denial-of-service activity, the so-called RDDoS (ransom distributed denial-of-service) attacks have taken a tumble in the first quarter of the year, according to recent statistics from Cloudflare. [...]

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Finland Government Sites Forced Offline by DDoS Attacks

Finnish ministries of foreign affairs and defense forced offline earlier today by DDoS attacks

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No-Joke Borat RAT Propagates Ransomware, DDoS

This fresh malware strain extends the functionality of typical trojans with advanced functionality and a series of modules for launching various types of threat activity.

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Beastmode botnet boosts DDoS power with new router exploits

A Mirai-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet tracked as Beastmode (aka B3astmode) has updated its list of exploits to include several new ones, three of them targeting various models of Totolink routers. [...]

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