Ukrainian DDoS Attacks Should Put US on Notice–Researchers

On Tuesday, institutions central to Ukraine’s military and economy were hit with denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Impact was limited, but the ramifications are not.

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Ukraine Defense and Bank Networks DDoS-ed

Russia suspected of intensifying cyber-attacks

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Ukrainian military agencies, state-owned banks hit by DDoS attacks

The Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces of Ukraine and two of the country's state-owned banks, Privatbank (Ukraine's largest bank) and Oschadbank (the State Savings Bank), are being hammered by Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. [...]

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Ukrainian military agencies, banks hit by DDoS attacks, defacements

The Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces of Ukraine and two of the country's state-owned banks, Privatbank (Ukraine's largest bank) and Oschadbank (the State Savings Bank), are being hammered by Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. [...]

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Ukraine Ministry of Defense confirms DDoS attack; state banks loses connectivity

The websites of Ukraine's defense ministry as well as state banks Privatbank and Oschadbank were down on Tuesday due to an alleged DDoS attack.

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DDoS Attacks on a Tear in Q4 2021

New data from Kaspersky shows distributed denial-of-service attacks increased by more than 50% in the fourth quarter of last year compared with the third quarter.

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DDoS Attacks Hit All-time High

More DDoS attacks recorded in Q4 2021 than at any point in history, with US most targeted country

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Microsoft: Here's how we stopped the biggest ever DDoS attack

Microsoft details how Azure helped mitigate a 3.47 terabytes per second distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

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A DDoS Attack Wiped Out Andorra's Internet

Plus: Securing US water systems, the FBI's NSO Group dealings, and more of the week's top security news.

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Microsoft says it blocked the largest DDoS attack it's ever seen

DDoS attack had a throughput of 3.47 Tbps and a packet rate of 340 million packets per second

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Microsoft mitigated a record 3.47 Tbps DDoS attack on Azure users

Microsoft says its Azure DDoS protection platform mitigated a massive 3.47 terabits per second (Tbps) distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack targeting an Azure customer from Asia in November. [...]

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Nobel Foundation site hit by DDoS attack on award day

The Nobel Foundation and the Norwegian Nobel Institute have disclosed a cyber-attack that unfolded during the award ceremony on December 10, 2021. [...]

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Link11 Sets New Standards in DDoS Protection as Test Winner

In a recent performance test, cybersecurity provider Link11 was benchmarked against leading international security vendors and emerged as the winner. The study by Frost & Sullivan emphasized the importance of precise detection and speed in mitigating DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks.

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Kids won’t stop launching DDoS attacks against their schools

A new NCA campaign seeks to intervene before children find themselves on the wrong side of cyber laws.

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Revamped Community-Based DDoS Defense Tool Improves Filtering

Team Cymru updates its Unwanted Traffic Removal Service (UTRS), adding more granular controls and greater ranges of both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.

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NCA: Kids as Young as Nine Have Launched DDoS Attacks

Initiative aims to divert young people away from cybercrime

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DDoS attacks soared to new highs in 2021

DDoS attacks posed a significant threat to businesses in the manufacturing industry last year.

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DDoS attacks that come combined with extortion demands are on the rise

There's been a significant increase in cyber criminals demanding ransom payments to stop their disruption of online services with DDoS attacks.

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IP spoofing bug leaves Django REST applications open to DDoS, password-cracking attacks

Security researcher discovers how to send unlimited HTTP requests with the same client

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Extortion DDoS attacks grow stronger and more common

The end of 2021 saw a rise in the number of distributed denial-of-service incidents that came with a ransom demand from the attackers to stop the assault. [...]

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