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
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
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