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 […]
Ukrainian law enforcement authorities on Monday disclosed the arrest of a hacker responsible for the creation and management of a “powerful botnet” consisting of over 100,000 enslaved devices that was used to carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and spam attacks on behalf of paid customers. The unnamed individual, from the Ivano-Frankivsk region of the country, […]
Bandwidth.com has been suffering DDoS attacks for the past 3 days nonstop. Bandwidth.com is the newest victim of DDoS attacks, explicitly targeting voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services providers. According to sources, the attack against Bandwidth caused countrywide voice and message services outages. The attackers are yet unidentified. SEE: Yandex hit by largest DDoS attack […]
According to local Russian media, these DDoS attacks originated from several different countries including India, China, Brazil, Russia, Germany, Thailand, Lithuania, Bangladesh, and the United States. Last week, the Russian technology and search engine giant Yandex revealed that it suffered the world’s largest DDoS attacks ever recorded. Now, in what seems to be a continuation […]
Although unconfirmed; the notorious REvil ransomware gang could be behind the DDoS attacks on VoIP.ms. A Quebec-based Internet phone service provider VoIP.ms, which offers voice-over-IP services, has been down since September 17th. Reportedly, the firm is being held to ransom after becoming a victim of a massive and sustained DDoS attack. The assault has severely […]
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 […]
Over the summer the routers that are compromised by the massive Mēris DDoS botnet could be now cleaned, since MikroTik, the Latvian network equipment manufacturer has shared the proper guide and information to do so. As in recent times, we witnessed that how Yandex was encountering a huge DDoS attack that was conducted by the […]
Yandex, a Russia-based technology and search engine giant, has confirmed that its servers were targeted with cyber history’s largest DDoS attack last week. In its blog post published on 9 September, Yandex revealed that the company discovered a powerful new network of botnets that have carried out DDoS attacks not just against Runet, Russia’s version […]
Recently, it has been reported that Yandex was experiencing a massive DDoS attack from the Mēris botnet. this attack was denominated as the most comprehensive in the history of a DDoS attack, however, the key details are not yet cleared. However, Yandex and Qrator Labs issued a large provision on Habré, on which they have […]
Reportedly, the REvil ransomware gang is using DDoS attacks to make huge ransom demands from victim companies VoIP Unlimited and Voipfone. Two Internet and Telephony Service Providers (ITSP) in the United Kingdom, the South Coast-based VoIP Unlimited and London-based Voipfone, got their services disrupted for several days after suffering a series of Massive DDoS attacks. […]
The official website of Karapatan has been suffering a series of DDoS attacks since July 29th and were still ongoing as of yesterday, August 18th. Swedish media foundation, Qurium, reported that a Philippine-based human rights alliance Karapatan is the latest victim of targeted DDoS attacks. Karapatan’s website, Karapatan.org, suffered a series of DDoS attacks on July […]
Being a USA-based web infrastructure and website security company, Cloudflare works for other companies managing connections to servers and web pages. Recently, Cloudflare has claimed that it has mitigated one of the largest DDoS attacks in history that involve more than 17.2 million Request-Per-Second (rps). Cloudflare works very efficiently, soon after detecting this large HTTP […]
Web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare on Thursday disclosed that it mitigated the largest ever volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack recorded to date. The attack, launched via a Mirai botnet, is said to have targeted an unnamed customer in the financial industry last month. “Within seconds, the botnet bombarded the Cloudflare edge […]
Cybersecurity specialists from the University of Maryland and the University of Colorado Boulder have recently published the verdict of a flaw that they have found in the form of some middlebox models. They claimed that it is a term relating to computer network devices that modify, examine, filter, and manage traffic with a motive other […]
Cybersecurity specialists reported the discovery of a severe flaw in the design of some middlebox models, a term referring to computer network devices that transform, inspect, filter and manipulate traffic for purposes other than packet forwarding. Some implementations of these devices include the use of firewalls, network address translators (NATs), and deep packet inspection (DPI) […]
Weaknesses in the implementation of TCP protocol in middleboxes and censorship infrastructure could be weaponized as a vector to stage reflected denial of service (DoS) amplification attacks against any target, surpassing many of the existing UDP-based amplification factors to date. Detailed by a group of academics from the University of Maryland and the University of […]
Recently, a Cobalt Strike DoS vulnerability has been detected by the security analysts at SentinelOne. Cobalt Strike is a legitimate attack frame that is quite popular and is build for Red Team Operations. According to the report of security analysts, Cobalt Strike denial of service (DoS) vulnerabilities generally enables blocking beacon command-and-control (C2) communication channels […]
The vulnerability is under active exploitation by unknown attackers and affects a wide range of Apple’s products.
Cybersecurity specialists report the discovery of a remote code execution (CER) vulnerability in the Steel-Belted Radius (SBR) Carrier Edition, a device developed by Juniper Networks and used by telecommunications operators for the management of network access and security policies. Tracked as CVE-2021-0276, the vulnerability resides in SBR Carrier versions 8.4.1, 8.5.0, and 8.6.0 that use […]
A denial of service (DoS) attack is to force a failure of the target system by creating a condition in which users cannot access the attacked servers. A successful attack can force all sorts of subsequent scenarios, including filtering a database, extracting source code or simply keeping the website attacked offline. Federal Bureau of Investigation […]
ESET Research uncovers an active malicious campaign that uses new versions of old malware, Bandook, to spy on its victims