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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PHP bug allows attackers to bypass domain filters, stage DoS attacks against servers

Filter bypass flaw is triggered only on very large user input, which puts restrictions on its exploitability

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Regular web users unwittingly launch DDoS attacks on Ukraine

A hundred websites are making visitors send HTTP GET requests to a dozen Ukrainian sites.

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Hacked WordPress sites force visitors to DDoS Ukrainian targets

Hackers are compromising WordPress sites to insert a malicious script that uses visitors' browsers to perform distributed denial-of-service attacks on Ukrainian websites. [...]

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DDoS attacks grow in size and complexity

Though the overall number fell slightly, DDoS attacks became both bigger and more complicated in 2021 according to a new report from cloud-based managed security services platform F5 Silverline. By the final quarter of last year the mean attack size recorded was above 21 Gbps, more than four times the level at the beginning of 2020. Last year also saw the record for the largest-ever attack broken on several occasions. One attack in February 2021 measured 500 Gbps. The record was broken again in November with an attack weighing in at 1.4 Tbps -- more than five times larger than… [Continue Reading]

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FBI warns on ransomware that uses DDoS to threaten victims. Here's what to watch out for

A relative newcomer to the ransomware-as-a-service scene is now targeting US critical infrastructure.

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Israeli government confirms it was hit by huge DDoS attack

Israeli officials are investigating if any data, or infrastructure, were compromised.

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The Fight Against the Hydra: New DDoS Report from Link11

Complexity and number of attacks increased again.

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