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PoodleCorp is back with a bang, this time, Blizzard servers are facing the wrath of this ruthless DDoSing group. The PoodleCorp hacking and DDoSing group have conducted a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) on the servers of gaming giant Blizzard forcing them to stay offline and left users wondering what’s really doing on. https://twitter.com/siegeh_/status/778534055054671872 Blizzard, on the […]
Another day another victim of DDoS attack — This time, it’s the Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer. Blizzard has suffered a series of massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks disrupting the service on Battle.net servers at the end of Overwatch’s Summer Games event. The same event that was under attack when it began on 2nd […]
Short Bytes: There has been an increase in the number of DDoS attacks on educational institutes. These attacks are a realization of students’ intentions to change their grades or cause harm to the school network. They are using the dark web to perform such attacks. Dark Web is that part of the internet that is hidden […]
Another day another hack: This time it’s the Phoenix, Arizona-based Banner Health. Banner Health, a non-profit healthcare organization suffered a massive data breach on 17th June 2016 in which records of 3.7 million patients and staff were stolen. The organization noticed suspicious activities on their computers leading to two cyber attacks (between 7th may and June 23rd) […]
PoodleCorp takes down Blizzard and League of Legends (NA) Servers down in yet another DDoS attack! PoodleCorp, a group of hackers are claiming responsibility for conducting a series of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on Blizzard and League of Legends servers. Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California while […]
ISPs in Mumbai city of Indian suffered massive DDoS attacks a couple of days ago slowing Internet speed in the city! Internet Service Providers in Mumbai, India stated that they have been facing a series of Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks affecting Internet speed in the city. Several ISPs in the city also launched […]
The OurMine Hacking group conducted a massive DDoS attack on HSBC websites forcing the sites to go offline in the UK and the USA! The official domain of HSBC (Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) came under massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on 12 July affecting domain in the UK and the USA. The DDoS attack was conducted by […]
The official English language website of Muslim Brotherhood movement was forced to go offline after facing massive DDoS attacks! Earlier today, a hacker going by the handle of SkyNetCentral conducted a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the official website of Society of the Muslim Brothers or Muslim Brotherhood (Al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun in Arabic) forcing the website to […]
Turkish hackers were behind the QNB’s data breach — The QNB has accepted that they were hit with a cyber attack Last week HackRead exclusively reported on Qatar National Bank (QNB) security breach. Now, the QNB has acknowledged a third-party access to their servers but claim the customers’ data is fully secured. That’s not all while […]
Stressful Friday for Gamers as Blizzard’s Servers Targeted by Infamous Lizard Squad through DDoS DDoS attacks have become so widespread that every other day we hear about some website getting targeted and victimized. It has become the most common method of instigating a cyber-attack against private or government websites as well as private publications. However, […]
Sweden says its cyberspace was under sophisticated cyber attack from Russia Sweden sent a message to NATO and released alert all over claiming that the country was under threat of a serious cyber-attack in November 2015. According to reports, the Swedish government claimed of receiving two separate warnings and passed them to various NATO allies […]
An online wallet service for Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies CoinWallet was forced to shut down their operations by May 1, 2016, after an ugly data breach incident that transpired on April 6, 2016. This is the Fourth Bitcoin platform in the past month to get knocked out by a cyber-attack in a row, and the […]
Anonymous conducted DDoS attack on Dalhousie University website against 2015 rape case — Anonymous demands punishment for the culprits In November 2015, HackRead reported about the hacktivist group Anonymous forcing Halifax Regional Municipality police into reopening the investigation of a sexual assault case involving an 18-year-old girl Jane Doe attacked by a fellow student on Halloween night […]
Anonymous-linked Hackers Attack NASA’s System for Allegedly Keeping a Huge Secret Anonymous is a loosely connected group of hacktivists that doesn’t appreciate governments keeping secrets or conducting operations that somehow violate user privacy. So, to register their resentment what they do is attack the agency’s systems and hack critically important data. The same modus operandi […]
Short Bytes: This is the first time when the US has announced an open cyber attack. The cyber attack on ISIS will focus on recapturing the city of Mosul in Northern Iraq from ISIS. The electronic infrastructure of Iraq was set by the US during the reconstruction of Iraq and the US is going to […]
Anonymous Italy Launches #OperationGreenRights- Targets Italian Government Portals with DDoS Local government portals of Apulia and Basilicata regions in southern Italy have been attacked by the members of the infamous hacktivists collective Anonymous. The attack is being touted by Anonymous as a reactionary attempt to showcase resentment against the ongoing Trans Adriatic Pipeline project (TAP). […]
Attacks in the cyberspace have been a cause of concern for the entire world. The world, where everything is being carried over the internet or electronically, it shouldn’t surprise you that your entire life is prone to be hacked by the miscreants on the World Wide Web. Misuse of technology has always been a concern […]
A group of hackers famously known as New World Hackers (NWH) is claiming to attack a number of state websites in North Korea. The group is associated with the infamous hacktivists collective Anonymous and the cyber attack seems to be prompted by the recent satellite launch from North Korea. NWH shut down three websites merely […]
Another day another data breach but this one has affected even those students who were part of the university in the 1980s. 2015 was devastating for the universities in the United States due to increase in cyber attacks. The hackers were able to steal massive personal data from the University of Virginia, Penn State University, University of […]
The Blink Hacker Group associated with Anonymous hackers claims to leak sensitive data from 100 Thai Prison Databases Last week a group of hackers (Blink Hacker Group) claiming to be associated with the infamous hacktivist collective Anonymous knocked down 20 Thai Corrections Department websites and also leaked 1GB of Thai supreme court data. However, yesterday, the Blink […]
Pastebin.com faced heavy DDoS attacks which forced the platform to go offline. Pastebin.com is a world renowned online platform where users can store plain text but it is often under cyber attacks from hackers and cyber criminals. On 30th January 2016 someone started carrying a series of powerful Distributed Denial-of-Service attack (DDoS) on Pastebin.com forcing the platform to […]