Record Breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack Launched by Mirai Botnet

 The Mirai botnet unleashed a record-breaking Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on October 29, 2024, peaking at an astonishing 5.6 terabits per second (Tbps). ...

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Mirai Botnet Launches Record 5.6 Tbps DDoS Attack with 13,000+ IoT Devices

Web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare on Tuesday said it detected and blocked a 5.6 Terabit per second (Tbps) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the ...

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Mirai Botnet Launches Record 5.6 Tbps DDoS Attack with 13,000+ IoT Device

Web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare on Tuesday said it detected and blocked a 5.6 Terabit per second (Tbps) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the ...

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Cloudflare mitigated a record-breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack

The largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack to date peaked at 5.6 terabits per second and came from a Mirai-based botnet with 13,000 compromised devices. [...]

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Mirai Botnet Spinoffs Unleash Global Wave of DDoS Attacks

Two separate campaigns are targeting flaws in various IoT devices globally, with the goal of compromising them and propagating malware worldwide.

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ChatGPT-Lücke ermöglicht DDoS-Attacken

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ChatGPT API flaws could allow DDoS, prompt injection attacks

OpenAI-owned ChatGPT might have a vulnerability that could allow threat actors to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on ...

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Critical Vulnerability in ChatGPT API Enables Reflective DDoS Attacks

A concerning security flaw has been identified in OpenAI’s ChatGPT API, allowing malicious actors to execute Reflective Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on ...

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Apache CXF Vulnerability Triggers DoS Attack

Colm O hEigeartaigh announced a critical vulnerability affecting various versions of Apache CXF, a widely-used framework for building web services. This issue, documented as ...

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Linux PoDoFo Library Vulnerabilities Lets Attackers Trick User To Open PDF To Launch DOS Attacks

Canonical’s Ubuntu Security Team has announced fixes for multiple vulnerabilities affecting the PoDoFo library, a popular PDF manipulation library, in several versions of ...

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New IoT Botnet Launching Large-Scale DDoS attacks Hijacking IoT Devices

Large-scale DDoS attack commands sent from an IoT botnet’s C&C server targeting Japan and other countries since late 2024. These commands targeted various companies, ...

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ChatGPT Crawler Vulnerability Abused to Trigger Reflexive DDoS Attacks

Security researchers have uncovered a severe vulnerability in OpenAI’s ChatGPT API, allowing attackers to exploit its architecture for launching Reflective Distributed ...

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New IoT Botnet Launching Large-Scale DDoS Attacks Hijacking IoT Devices

A newly identified Internet of Things (IoT) botnet has been orchestrating large-scale Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks globally since late 2024, exploiting ...

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT crawler can be tricked into DDoSing sites, answering your queries

The S in LLM stands for Security OpenAI’s ChatGPT crawler appears to be willing to initiate distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on arbitrary websites, a reported ...

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IoT Botnet Linked to Large-scale DDoS Attacks Since the End of 2024

Since the end of 2024, we have been continuously monitoring large-scale DDoS attacks orchestrated by an IoT botnet exploiting vulnerable IoT devices such as wireless routers ...

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Standing strong against hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks

As digital innovation accelerates, so does the scale and sophistication of cyber threats, particularly Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.

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Millions of tunneling hosts are vulnerable to spoofing, DDoS attacks, say researchers

There are more than 4 million vulnerable hosts on the internet that accept unauthenticated traffic, say Belgian researchers, who warn that, ...

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7 Ways to Maximize the Value of DDoS Testing

These days, there are plenty of ways to run DDoS simulation testing and make sure you’re protected against attacks. You can do it on your own using commercial software or ...

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Windows Remote Desktop Gateway Vulnerability Exposes Systems to DoS Attacks

Microsoft has disclosed a significant vulnerability in its Windows Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway) that could allow attackers to exploit a race condition, resulting in a ...

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Mirai Botnet Exploiting Routers 0-Day Vulnerabilities to Launch DDoS Attack

Researchers have uncovered a sophisticated botnet, dubbed “Gayfemboy,” which has been exploiting 0-day vulnerabilities in industrial routers. First identified in ...

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