It is time for anti-piracy groups to rejoice as the database of DDoS-Guard is reportedly on sale on a hacking forum. It is an infamous bulletproof hosting service dubbed a ‘notorious market’ that many pirate websites use. The service is known for hosting numerous file-sharing giants, including BS., S., and Go-Unlimited file hosting services. The […]
Over 200 Belgian Websites Become Target of a Series of DDoS Attacks Including Belgian Federal Parliament and Police. Websites of over 200 Belgian organizations, including government, parliament, research institutes, scientific institutes, ministries, and universities, went offline after a large-scale DDoS attack targeted Belnet, a major ISP provider in the country. How did it start? The […]
On Tuesday morning, hundreds of organizations in Belgium experienced the consequences of a massive denial of service (DoS) attack that impacted government offices, legislative bodies, and academic and research institutions. The websites of these organizations were saturated with junk traffic and became useless to visitors. This attack would have focused on Belnet, the government-funded Internet […]
The attack overwhelmed the systems of a Belgian ISP, leading to widespread service outages and disruptions
Gaming studio Respawn has banned two Apex Legend players for winning via DDoS attacks which caused connectivity issues for other players. Respawn Entertainment, LLC, an American video game development studio has banned two Apex Legends players on the Xbox One version of the game for illegally winning ranked matches. Reportedly, the pair was caught DDoS-ing […]
During the first quarter of 2021, denial of service (DoS) attacks became one of the world’s leading cybercriminal trends, in part thanks to the combination of this technique with extortion campaigns against relevant targets, including public and private organizations. One of the biggest victims of this attack variant, known as Ransom DDoS (RDoS), is web […]
The world of videogames has become a highly competitive environment, leading many gamers to take drastic steps to stand out from the rest. A recent report mentions that two Apex Legends players were ejected from the platform for deploying denial of service (DoS) attacks targeting Xbox servers with the intention of affecting other players. Connor […]
The bug is under active exploitation by unknown attackers and affects a wide range of devices, including iPhones, iPads and Apple Watches
A group of specialists revealed the finding of a security flaw in the architecture of 5G networks and virtualized network functions. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability would allow threat actors to access potentially sensitive information, as well as the ability to deploy denial of service (DoS) attacks between different segments of the 5G network, exposing […]
The extortionists attempt to scare the targets into paying by claiming to represent some of the world’s most notorious APT groups
Kenneth Currin Schuchman, who is also known as Nexus Zeta from Vancouver, Canada, is the creator of deadly Mirai and Qbot-based botnet, has sentenced to 13 months in prison for hiring and promoting the Mirai and Qbot-based DDoS botnets utilized in DDoS attacks against targets from all over the world. Rather than Mirai, Kenneth Currin […]
The denial of service attacks (DDoS) causes a system or service to be inaccessible to a legitimate user. We have seen a diverse range of DDoS attacks that have affected many users around the world used by the cybercriminals and government-backed hackers. “A DDoS attack can cause a web page to become unavailable when receiving […]
Hot on the heels of his research into an attack that attempted to take down ESET’s website, Lukas Stefanko sheds more light on threats posed by mobile botnets
After being targeted by an Android DDoS app, ESET seized the opportunity to analyze the attack and to help put an end to it
China is greatly disturbed by the ongoing pro-democracy, anti-Beijing protests in Hong Kong and has been targeting all the digital forums protestors are using to organize protests. One of the favored tactics of the Chinese government is of launching a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attacks). In September this year, HackRead reported that LIHKG, an online […]
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A new wave of Roboto Botnet activities being discovered that attack the Linux Webmin servers by exploiting the RCE vulnerability using vulnerability scanning and P2P control module. Roboto Botnet initially detected via 360Netlab Unknown Threat Detection System as an ELF( Executable Linkable Format) file in august, later, honeypot detects another suspicious ELF sample which acts […]
A new botnet named Roboto is targeting Linux servers running Webmin app, according to security researchers at 360 Netlab. Roboto is a peer-to-peer botnet that has been active since summer and is exploiting a vulnerability in the Webmin app. The app offers a web-based remote management system for Linux servers and is installed on as […]
DOS is the most common attacks which is used by many attackers. DOS (Denial of Service) attacks which flows the bandwidth (data packets), to interrupt the services of victim IP address or URLs. Ethical Hacking researchers of International Institute of Cyber Security stimulated the DOS attack and demonstrated on how to block IP address if […]
An Iranian based Cloud Infrastructure provider Arvan experienced a DDoS attack that peaks up to 5,000 Requests Per Second via Telegram MTProxy. The attack started on November 6 and lasts for 3 days. The MTProxy was used by Telegram to bypass the Iranian filtering system as the Telegram banned in Iran. Several users started using […]
A spokesperson from the Labour Party in the United Kingdom has confirmed that the party’s digital platforms suffered a massive DDoS attack due to which its security systems were blocked. The attack occurred only a few weeks before the General Elections due on December 12, 2019, however, it is also claimed that none of the […]