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For any enterprise today, a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack could mean a real headache. Such an attack could throw out of gear all business activities and all operations of a company. A DDoS attack, which is launched simultaneously from multiple hosts, would exhaust the resources of a network, service or application and access […]
Facebook, which has suffered the biggest ever outage in its history, is struggling to deal with it. The partial outage that affected some users of Facebook and other platforms owned by Facebook, including Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram, seems to be abating. CNN.com reports that Facebook had to use the services of its rival Twitter […]
When Did UPnP and SSDP Became Mainstream? Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) was considered revolutionary when it was introduced to Windows Millennium Edition nineteen years ago, in 2000. It was hyped with the promise of automatic detection of ‘smart’ appliances in the home and in the office using a Windows PC. It is the pre-IoT […]
According to the 2019 Cyber Threat Outlook published by defense industry firm Booz Allen Hamilton, the year 2019 is likely to see an increase of state actors taking aim at the private sector in foreign companies, continuing an ongoing trend over the past several years. The report published quotes about economically-motivated attacks, aimed at “stealing […]
The Operation Power OFF has taken down the largest illegal market place offering DDoS-for-hire service Webstresser[.]org last April. Authorities collected 151 000 registered users information for the services. After the services have been taken down, now the authorities tracking down the users enrolled for the DDoS-for-hire service. Coordinated by Europol along with J-CAT, Dutch police, […]
Internet service providers hit with a new stealthy volumetric attack by injecting the malicious traffic with the legitimate traffic to evade detection. Attackers carry out an advanced reconnaissance method to covertly gathers information about mission-critical IP address and inject pieces of attack traffic with the legitimate traffic to evade detection. Nexusguard called this stealthy attack […]
Six years jail time, that may become the penalty awaiting the 6 young hackers, two who were allegedly responsible for DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against Ukraine government and education sectors, most severely hit was Mariupol City while the rest were involved with the online heist. DDoS is a type of network attack with […]
Two young hackers arrested for launching DDoS attacks on several critical Ukraine sources including the city of Mariupol and several other educational institutions. The DDoS attacks aims in exhausting the resource of a network, application or service that leads an organization to face the various technical impacts. Ukraine police arrested two young hackers 21- and […]
We could define DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks as the exclusive appropriation of a resource or service with the intention of avoiding any third party access. Also included in this definition are the attacks destined to collapse a resource or system with the intention of destroying the service or resource. DoS attacks are born […]
Law enforcement has launched pre-emptive strikes on DDoS services keeping in mind the Christmas holiday season. Reports say that law enforcement from different countries has shut down DDoS booters in a bid to prevent the usual DDoS attacks targeting gaming services that happen annually during the Christmas holidays. “Law enforcement from the US, the UK, […]
DDoS (Denial of Service Attack) malware have been wreaking havoc to online services on a fairly regular basis these days. Since last month, some Apache Hadoop servers have been observed of being infected by a DDoS botnet, DemonBot. The Botnet’s command and control servers are highly active and still online at the time of this […]
Newly Discovered Chalubo Botnet that compromises the internet facing SSH servers on Linux-based systems, IOT Devices and uses it for Distributed denial-of-service attack. Malware author using various evasion technique and more common windows malware principals to prevent from detection tools and also it adopted the anti analyzing technique to make it analyzing difficult. Researchers believe that […]
The Internet continues to be a rich environment for vulnerability scans against weak websites and web hosting facilities. Businesses with a web presence are the most attacked entities on the Internet, most especially the Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises. Startup companies and SME’s are the business establishments with the least funding for a credible cybersecurity […]
National Crime Agency (NCA) from the UK finally arrested the Teen for a heavy DDoS attack on ProtonMail email service. 19-year-old Teen George Duke-Cohan who was roaming on the internet under the name ‘7R1D3N7′, ‘DoubleParalla’ and ‘optcz1′, was launched a heavy DDoS attack on ProtonMail. In this case, Protonmail faced a DDoS Attack on their network daily basis […]
Banco de España website was temporarily offline The central bank of Spain says that its website remained offline intermittently, as it had trouble repelling a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. However, Banco de España mentions that the DDoS attack had no effect on the organization’s operations, also mentioning that the communication with the European Central Bank […]
In this new digital landscape, IT security professionals are feeling the most heat, as they must constantly fret about looming cyberattacks and data breaches. According to these folks, attacks have only increased in size and sophistication since the internet first became a thing. The International Cyber Benchmarks Index and The Changing Face of Cyber Attacks, […]
Last week, the torrenting giant The Pirate Bay went offline and it has been over five days that the website has not surfaced back online. Those visiting The Pirate Bay can see a brief message from Cloudflare stating that “This page is currently offline. However, because the site uses Cloudflare’s Always Online™ technology you can continue to […]
One of the biggest cyber threats organizations are facing is a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), which has the power to bring down systems and essentially stop business in its tracks. Aside from just being a nuisance, this kind of attack can cause significant damage to a company’s reputation, operational capacity—and more importantly, their profits. […]
Cloudflare owned DNS service faced a Critical issue during the new interaction and goes down for 17 Minutes that lead to 1.1.1.1 DNS Resolver to be Globally Inaccessible. Also, DDoS Mitigation system launch DDoS on its own infrastructure and no DDOS Attacks was protected while downtime being occurred. DNS 1.1.1.1 was recently announced by Cloudflare which is one […]
What is DDoS Attack? DDoS Attack (Distributed Denial of Service) is a type of attack which originates from multiple computers or devices. The Aim of DDoS Attack is when multiple systems overflow the bandwidth or resources of a targeted system, usually one or more web servers. Such as DDOS Attack is often the result of […]
Attackers could use the UPnP protocol exploit to bypass the DDoS mitigation solutions and to perform a heavy DDoS amplification attack. Imperva published a proof of concept (PoC) and the mitigations to be carried out for DDoS amplification attacks. UPnP(Universal Plug and Play) works over UDP port 1900 that enabled by default on many IoT […]