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Danish rail travellers suffering to Impossible to Buy a Train Ticket due to heavy DDoS Attack on online ticket booking service system. Attack made tough to buy a ticket by the passenger on the whole day and the Ticket booking system heavily flooded with Unknown Traffic from Multiple resources. DDoS Attack (Distributed Denial of Service) is a type of attack […]
Administrators of DDoS-for-hire Service were arrested as a result of a joint Operation Power OFF led by the Dutch police, and UK’s National Crime Agency along with the support of Europol and other law enforcement agencies. The 6 administrators behind DDoS-for-hire website were located in the United Kingdom, Croatia, Canada, and Serbia. Top users of […]
Just recently, GitHub, the most famous code sharing and hosting platform, faced the world’s most powerful DDoS attack. As per GitHub, the website was unavailable for about 5 minutes (17:21 to 17:26 UTC) on February 28th as a result of this massive torrent of 1.2 Tbps traffic targetting the site all at once. Soon after the […]
This week, GitHub’s code hosting website hit with the largest-ever distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that peaked at record 1.35 Tbps. According to data security researchers, attackers did not use any botnet network, instead weaponized misconfigured Memcached servers to amplify the DDoS attack. The attackers abuse of Memcached, popular open-source and easily deployable distributed caching system, […]
Hackers and hacking have become so common that today you almost don’t need to explain what hacking is, even to most laymen. Hackers can hack a website or system or network, which would eventually lead to the stealing of data, shutting down of the website, businesses incurring big losses etc. Hackers target all kinds of […]
What is Distributed Denial of Service Attack(DDoS)? A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is an attempt to make a system or network resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means and motives vary it generally consists of efforts to temporarily or indefinitely interrupt a host connected to the Internet. This article reads on how to […]
‘Andromeda’, a huge malware system, a botnet made up of millions of computers, has finally been taken offline, as per reports. It’s also reported that the cyber criminal who has been behind the Andromeda network, has been arrested as a result of a joint operation involving Belarus, Germany and the United States. Reuters reports from […]
Records request denied because FCC made no “written documentation” of attack. The US Federal Communications Commission says it has no written analysis of DDoS attacks that hit the commission’s net neutrality comment system in May. In its response to a Freedom of Information Act (FoIA) request filed by Gizmodo, the FCC said its analysis of DDoS attacks “stemmed from […]
Major news sites in France including Le Monde and Le Figaro went down yesterday in the fallout of a DDoS attack. Many of the biggest French news sites were hit by a DDoS attack on a Portland, Oregon cloud computing company – Cedexis. The attack caused the sites to go dark. Dr Malcolm Murphy, technology […]
With more than one million active bots at any time, a Necurs-enabled DDoS attack could dwarf such an attack by the Mirai botnet. In an ominous development, the world’s largest spam botnet has acquired capabilities that could allow it to be used in massive distributed denial-of-service attacks. Security researchers at BitSight’s Anubis Labs recently observed the […]
Reports suggest a large-scale DDoS attack from overseas blocked Lloyds, Halifax, and Bank of Scotland customers from accessing online services. International cyberattackers have targeted one of the UK’s largest banking groups with a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS), according to a press report, in an incident which disrupted online banking services for millions of customers for […]
A Turkish hacker who is known on-line as Mehmet has released a DDoS opposition that invitations members to take down political websites and then be rewarded for their achievements. Safety corporation Forcepoint located what they called the “gamification” of DDoS assaults. Announcing that every participant within the contest receives get admission to to a tool […]
The European Commission was the victim of a massive DDoS attack that brought down its internet access for hours on Thursday. A massive DDoS attack targeted the European Commission website, fortunately, according to an official statement from the organization the internal security team repelled the attack without damages. The experts from the European Commission confirmed that some servers […]
The whistle blowing platform, WikiLeaks tweeted on Tuesday (November 08) that the group was hit with distributed denial of service (DDoS) cyberattack over the last 24 hours. The assault involved thousands of unique IP addresses. WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange denied influencing the outcome of election in Donald Trump’s favor. “We have been under unrelenting DDoS […]
Security researchers have discovered flaws in the Mirai botnet that might be used to mitigate against future attacks from the zombie network. Scott Tenaglia, a researcher at endpoint security firm Invincea, found a weakness in the HTTP flood attack that Mirai is capable of mounting. Specifically a stack buffer overflow vulnerability in the code that […]
Short Bytes: According to a new report, massive IoT botnets are available for sale on TOR-based underground markets. For $7,500, one can get a botnet of 100,000 hacked devices, which is enough to DDoS any major online website or service. A wide range of IoT devices in these botnets are affeced by Mirai malware. Over […]
Short Bytes: Hosting provider OVH has witnessed the world’s largest DDoS attack. This attack of 1Gpbs intensity was launched by a botnet network of 152,463 smart devices. The same network was also responsible for the recent DDoS assault on security publication Krebs On Security. Sadly, more than 15k new cameras have participated in the attack on […]
Welcome back my dear hackers, today we will discuss how to DDos a website using VBScript. All the script does is, it refreshes the page after a particular time gap. I just want to tell you that this is just for educational purpose. Disclaimer – Our tutorials are designed to aid aspiring pen testers/security enthusiasts […]
Company promises to refund affected users. Steemit, a relatively small social network, announced last Thursday, on July 14, that an unknown attacker had managed to hack its network and steal some of its users’ funds. Steem is a new kind of technology that powers the Steemit social network and works by rewarding users that post popular […]
The central banks of Indonesia and South Korea have been hit by distributed denial of service attacks on their public websites, with officials linking the timing of the attacks to a pledge made in May by hacktivist group Anonymous. In the month since activist hacking group Anonymous pledged to target banks across the world, senior […]
An 18-year-old man has been charged by British police in connection with an internet attack that saw Mumsnet hacked, users’ accounts breached, passwords stolen, and the site blasted offline. David Gerrard Buchanan, 18, from Haslemere, Surrey, was charged by the Metropolitan Police’s Cyber Crime Unit (MPCCU) with two counts under section 1 of the Computer […]