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The National Crime Agency (NCA) of the United Kingdom revealed that it had built several fake DDoS-for-hire service websites to track down cybercriminals who use these platforms to attack businesses. Also, this declaration follows the Agency’s decision to designate one of the sites now maintained by officers as a criminal service as part of a sustained programme […]
The security analysts at Akamai recently identified a new botnet called HinataBot, based on Golang. Apart from this, HinataBot has been observed exploiting the already-known security flaws in routers and servers to gain unauthorized access to launch DDoS attacks. At the beginning of the year, researchers uncovered this new botnet that had been operating for […]
Passion Group, a Killnet, and Anonymous Russia affiliate, recently started providing DDoS-as-a-Service to pro-Russian hackers. During the attacks on January 27, the Passion Botnet was used to target medical institutions in the United States, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Poland, Finland, Norway, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom as retaliation for sending tanks to support Ukraine. These botnets […]
Researchers at Zimperium zLabs recently identified a new Chrome browser botnet called ‘Cloud9’ that is intent on stealing the following information using malicious extensions:- Online accounts credentials Log keystrokes Inject ads Inject malicious JS code Enroll the victim’s browser in DDoS attacks This method is becoming increasingly attractive for malware developers to target web browsers […]
The Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, hit 14 major US airport websites. The websites were temporarily shut down due to DDoS attacks led by pro-Russian hacker group ‘KillNet’, who hit back against the Western countries’ aggressive actions against Russia due to the war in Ukraine. According Kiersten Todt, Chief of Staff of the US […]
The cybersecurity researchers at Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs asserted that in order to mine crypto-currencies and launch DDoS attacks, hackers are deploying an existing botnet called Chaos, which is rapidly expanding, to target and infect Windows and Linux devices. There are also various architectures that can be affected by this Go-based malware, and it includes […]
On the day of June 27, 2022, Imperva, an internet cybersecurity company mitigated over 25.3 billion requests as part of a DDoS attack. A new record in the field of DDoS mitigation has been set by its solution. A Chinese telecommunications company that has not been named was targeted in the attack. This furious attack […]
Akamai identified a new Record-Breaking DDoS assault in Europe with attack traffic spiking to 704.8 Mpps to cripple the organization’s business operations. “On Monday, September 12, 2022, Akamai successfully detected and mitigated the now-largest DDoS attack ever launched against a European customer on the Prolexic platform, with attack traffic abruptly spiking to 704.8 Mpps in […]
Google has been targeted with the largest DDoS attack in history against one of its customers. An attack on one of the Google Cloud Armor customers occurred on June 1st, during which 46 million requests were sent per second to a Google Cloud Armor customer by HTTPS DDoS attacks. It is the most powerful Layer […]
Taiwan’s Presidential website and several websites run by the government of Taiwan were disrupted by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks hours before United States Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to mainland China. According to NBC News Report, the attacks hit four websites, those of President Tsai Ing-wen, the National Defense Ministry, the Foreign Affairs Ministry, and the […]
In the past few weeks, an organization in Eastern Europe has been the victim of the biggest DDoS attack that the continent has ever experienced. During the past month, several DDoS attacks have been launched against the target, a customer of Akamai, as part of an ongoing assault. Attackers are increasingly using DDoS attacks to […]
The Chinese hacking group known as Tropic Trooper was attributed to a new campaign discovered by cybersecurity researchers at CheckPoint. In this case, a new variant of the Yahoyah trojan is being used along with a new loader called Nimbda. In addition, the trojan is embedded in a Greyware tool designed for DoS attacks against […]
Is a website slow because of a poor internet connection or is the traffic overwhelmed because of a cyberattack? In recent years, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) has become one of the most concerning attacks for businesses. Hackers can use DDoS to target either large organizations or individuals, which means that businesses of any size […]
For the protection of Cloudflare customers last week, Cloudflare assessed 26 million requests per second and mitigated the attacks as part of a DDoS attack mitigation strategy. While this DDoS attack has been registered as the largest HTTPS DDoS attack on record. In this attack, a botnet network consisting of approximately 5,000 devices launched this […]
Cybercriminals leverage multiple methods to bring financial gain. Most of the ways are based on infiltrating an organization’s network and gaining unauthenticated access, which will lead to disruption in their operations. This can be achieved by Ransomware or DDoS Extortion attacks. Ransomware and DDoS extortion attacks are both threats businesses should take seriously. Here are […]
Imperva security firm recently claimed that it has managed to foil a massive ransom distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyberattack that peaked at 2.5 million requests per second recently (on a single server), keeping some unnamed site up and running and uncrashed by reducing the RPS by 99%. Ransom DDoS attacks have been around for a long […]
The Ukraine government officials have claimed that again multiple government and banking organizations’ portals have experienced a massive DDoS attack recently. All these cyberattacks have been developed by the threat actors over the past few months and after such a brutal attack several information systems become not operable. However, several websites have managed to minimize […]
Fortinet has recently discovered a malware called Moobot, which was widely distributed through a security vulnerability in a number of Hikvision surveillance or security cameras. Moobot is a variant of the well-known botnet malware Mirai. When a victim device is infected, it turns the device into a member of its botnet army, accepts instructions from […]
On Tuesday 14, the cybersecurity researchers of Claroty and JFrog have detected 14 new vulnerabilities in the BusyBox Linux utility. BusyBox is one of the most extensively used Linux software suites, and there are several world’s leading operational technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) devices that use BusyBox. These vulnerabilities could be exploited to […]
The law enforcement authorities of the Ukrainian have recently arrested a hacker on Monday who is accountable for the formulation and administration of a “powerful botnet” that has over 100,000 controlled devices. All these devices were utilized to convey out dispersed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, as well as spam attacks on account of paid customers. Here […]
A federal jury in California, at the end of a nine-day trial, found an Illinois man guilty, who have operated several websites with paid DDoS attack services. After executing an investigation it was found that 32-year old Matthew Gatrel of St. Charles, Illinois allowed users to launch more than 200,000 DDoS attacks for which he […]