DDoS attack on Battle.net lasted about an hour, appears to have affected small subset of players.
25 November 2021
Like moths to a flame, hackers always go where the action is. As the COVID-19 pandemic drove work away from the office, businesses have faced one cyberattack after another on their remote work infrastructure. Meanwhile, a boom in virtual entertainment has brought a surge of players to the gaming industry -- and with them, a rise in DDoS attack activity. Cybercrime rings are launching triple extortion campaigns combining DDoS attacks with ransomware, and data theft, while ordinary gamers can rent a botnet easily and affordably to cheat or disrupt competition with a DDoS attack of their own. The highly popular Titanfall 2 game has already been rendered virtually unplayable -- perhaps by as…
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25 November 2021
Pankaj Gupta, Senior Director at Citrix, outlines how distributed denial of service attacks have become increasingly sophisticated, bigger and economically motivated.
18 November 2021
Lumen claims longest attack lasted 14 days
17 November 2021
Cloudflare has detected and mitigated a monsterous DDoS attack that peaked at almost 2Tbps.
15 November 2021
Attacks against VoIP providers take another victim as Telnyx is hit.
11 November 2021
Telnyx is the latest VoIP telephony provider targeted with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, causing worldwide outages since yesterday. [...]
10 November 2021
The distributed computing vendor patched the flaw, affecting Citrix ADC and Gateway, along with another flaw impacting availability for SD-WAN appliances.
10 November 2021
While the VoIP company still beat its earnings projections, the attack caused a $700,000 dent in revenue for Q3.
08 November 2021
Q3 DDoS attacks topped thousands daily, with more growth expected.
08 November 2021
The total number of smart attacks (advanced DDoS attacks that are often targeted) increased by 31% when compared to the same period last year.
08 November 2021
In Q3, Cloudflare researchers said they stopped "one of the largest recorded HTTP attacks."
05 November 2021
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has sent out a flash alert warning private industry partners that the HelloKitty ransomware gang (aka FiveHands) has added distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to their arsenal of extortion tactics. [...]
01 November 2021
Packet in, says industry group
27 October 2021
UK body warns of “unprecedented” attack campaign
27 October 2021
South Korea's IT ministry is still investigating what caused KT's nationwide outage of their network.
25 October 2021
Users of KT's network were unable to access the internet for around 40 minutes, which the telco said was caused by a 'large-scale DDoS attack'.
25 October 2021
A report analyzing data from the start of the year concludes that distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on Russian companies have increased 2.5 times compared to the same period last year. [...]
20 October 2021
Prevent your business from falling victim to a DDoS attack with these services.
15 October 2021
We know what you DDoSed last summer
14 October 2021