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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Massive DDoS attack takes Russia’s second-largest bank VTB offline

Russia's second-largest financial institution VTB Bank says it is facing the worse cyberattack in its history after its website and mobile apps were taken offline due to an ongoing DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack. [...]

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Massive DDoS attack takes down Russia’s second-largest bank VTB

Russia's second-largest financial institution VTB Bank says it is facing the worse cyberattack in its history after its website and mobile apps were taken offline due to an ongoing DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack. [...]

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Concern Over DDoS Attacks Falls Despite Rise in Incidents

Almost a third of respondents in Fastly's Fight Fire with Fire survey view data breaches and data loss as the biggest cybersecurity threat.

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Cybersecurity researchers take down DDoS botnet by accident

While analyzing its capabilities, Akamai researchers have accidentally taken down a cryptomining botnet that was also used for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. [...]

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Killnet Gloats About DDoS Attacks Downing Starlink, White House

Elon Musk-owned Starlink, WhiteHouse.gov, and the Prince of Wales were targeted by Killnet in apparent retaliation for its support of Ukraine.

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Hackers take down EU Parliament site in apparent DDoS attack

Pro-Russian attackers retaliate to EU Parliament's call for further isolation of their country.

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Russian DDoS Briefly Downs European Parliament Site

Parliament had declared Russia a state-sponsor of terrorism

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Pro-Russian hacktivists take down EU Parliament site in DDoS attack

The website of the European Parliament has been taken down following a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack claimed by a pro-Russia group of hacktivists calling themselves Anonymous Russia. [...]

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Azure will now protect SMBs from DDoS attacks

Microsoft has released a new SKU for Azure DDoS Protection, specifically tailored for the needs of SMBs.

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Updated RapperBot malware targets game servers in DDoS attacks

The Mirai-based botnet 'RapperBot' has re-emerged via a new campaign that infects IoT devices for DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks against game servers. [...]

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Botnets, Trojans, DDoS From Ukraine and Russia Have Increased Since Invasion

The news comes from a report by Top10VPN and is based on data by the Shadowserver Foundation

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Evasive KmsdBot Cryptominer/DDoS Bot Targets Gaming, Enterprises

KmsdBot takes advantage of SSH connections with weak login credentials to mine currency and deplete network resources, as it gains a foothold on enterprise systems.

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The FBI says Russian hacktivists are only seeing 'limited' success with DDoS attacks

These attacks have been more of a nuisance than an actual threat, the FBI claims.

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FBI: Hacktivist DDoS attacks had minor impact on critical orgs

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said on Friday that distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks coordinated by hacktivist groups have little to no impact. [...]

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DDoS Cyberscore: US Treasury: 1, Killnet: 0

An official just revealed the US Department of Treasury was able to fend off a Killnet DDoS attack last month.

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CISA, FBI, MS-ISAC Publish Guidelines For Federal Agencies on DDoS Attacks

The guidance is for network defenders and leaders to understand and respond to DDoS attacks

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These Microsoft servers are helping fuel massive DDoS attacks

Thousands of servers all over the world abused to serve as data amplifiers, genering tons of DDoS traffic.

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FBI and CISA: Here's what you need to know about DDoS attacks

Agencies say guidance will help organisations to understand and respond to DDoS attacks.

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