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Short Bytes: According to a recent revelation, a hacking group called Armada Collective collected more than $100,000 just by sending a DDoS threat in an email to online businesses. The spooked businesses were asked to pay the amount in Bitcoin in the form of a protection money. A hacking group called the Armada Collective has earned […]
The British branch of the HSBC bank has suffered for the second time in a month a cyber attack that brought its services offline. It’s happened again, HSBC customers were not able to access the online services of the bank due to a DDoS attack that hit the financial institution. “HSBC UK internet banking was attacked this morning. […]
The Dark DDoS threat will not only increase in 2016 but it will also let the cyber criminals earn money in the shape of ransom. A prediction from Corero: A company that is among the leading provider of First Line of Defense Solutions insecurity and attacks by DDoS have predicted that there will be a […]
OpKillingBay – A group of hackers linked to the Anonymous collective shut down the Japanese Airport Website to protest against the slaughter of Dolphin. The collective Anonymous has launched a DDoS attack that shut down the Website of the Japanese Narita International Airport on Friday night (at around 9:30 p.m) until Saturday (around 1 a.m). The attack has been confirmed by the […]
Using a few windows tools we are able to kick players offline and automatically win by default. Whether you are a serious gamer or someone just pisses you off online. By attacking the designated IP address assigned to your opponent, you can kick/drop the player and he will be disconnected back to the main […]
Short Bytes: With changing times, the international community has banned the whale hunting practice. However, it’s a common knowledge that Japanese people call whale meat their “nostalgia food” as it connects them to their culture and heritage. As a protest against Japan’s stance on whale hunting, Anonymous hacking collective has taken down Nissan’s website to put […]
The hacking group New World Hacking that claimed the responsibility for the BBC attack revealed that the DDoS attack reached the 602 GBps. On December 31th, the BBC website and iPlayer service went down due to a major “distributed denial of service” attack.” The attack started at 0700 GMT and paralyzed the websites for more than […]
BBC faced a shut down for over an hour of their website on New Year’s eve due to t DDOS attack. Previously unknown, the people behind the attack have released a statement, stating that they are a US-based group called New World Hacking which is an anti-ISIL group, The Telegraph reports. On Thursday, 31 December, […]
iPlayer database malfunctions in DDoS attack, brings everything down, including main website and a radio app. On the morning of December 31, 2015, unknown attackers have downed the BBC website and its iPlayer video platform under a massive DDoS attack. The attack started around 07:00 AM GMT and only lasted a few hours, the BBC services […]
Coinbase website DDoSed by hacker group. A hacker group consisting of two hackers, @L7Crew and @An0CBR claimed to have brought down the Bitcoin exchange website Coinbase. The Coinbase website is offline and opening the same presents a cached copy of the website. Coinbase is a bitcoin wallet and exchange company headquartered in San Francisco California, founded by Brian Armstrong and […]
In an attack aping the work of the infamous Lizard Squad hacking group, the similarly titled Phantom Squad has claimed responsibility for a DDoS attack on Microsoft’s Xbox Live service. While the service is now currently back up, some users experienced problems logging in overnight. Sony’s PlayStation Network was not affected. The attacks follow threats […]
Every once in a while we get a glimpse into rare and strange behavior that doesn’t involve the website being hacked, but causes major problems for website owners. We have spoken recently about malicious referral spam in Google Analytics and Google Search Console being used by attackers after they gain access to a website. Today, […]
Researchers have found that smartphone browsers can deliver a powerful flooding attack. Researchers suspect a mobile advertising network has been used to point hundreds of thousands of smartphone browsers at a website with the aim of knocking it offline. According to distributed denial-of-service protection service CloudFlare, one customer’s site recently came under fire from 4.5 […]
Image: Dailydot Short Bytes: The infamous DDoS attacks have increased at a staggering pace in the recent past. According to a latest report, DDoS attacks have grown by 132 percent compared to this time last year. The internet has also witnessed 12 Mega Attacks in Q2 2015. Do you know that Pentagon has announced that […]
Short Bytes: DDoS attack is one of the favorite tools used by hackers to disrupt an online service. Here, we are going to tell you more about the attack using an easy-to-understand infographic. Most of us are aware of the fact that DDoS attack- Distributed Denial of Service- is one of the most common attacks […]
Last week, we reported how Anonymous hacked, defaced and deleted several x-rated Animal abuse websites. Today the same Anonymous hackers have targeted the world’s largest Bestiality forum (beastforum.com) with a DDoS attack, forcing it to go offline. History: Anonymous hackers started an operation under the banner of #OpBEAST. The purpose of this operation is to raise awareness […]
Turkish hacker shutdown Vatican City official website against Pope Francis’ remarks in which he used the word ‘genocide’ to refer to mass killings of Armenians by Turks. The website was taken down just an hour ago after which the Turkish attacker (going with the handle of @THTHerakles) announced that he will keep targeting the site until an apology is […]
Update: GitHub is fully functional now. Old Story: GitHub, one of the most popular websites among programmers and developers is was under continuous attack from Chinese hackers. The collaborative project development website is was facing a massive DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack. Whenever GitHub users outside China are trying to access web pages with advertisements served by […]
Update: GitHub is fully functional now. Everything operating normally. — GitHub Status (@githubstatus) March 31, 2015 GitHub is one the most popular websites among programmers and developers and is currently having 3.4 million users with 2.2 million active repositories. This software development web site used for collaborative projects is currently being hit by a massive […]
Performing a DOS attack may seem confusing at first , but when you have the right tools and knowledge , it’s quite simple for any user to execute it. In this tutorial i’ll be showing you how to do a Ping flood attack. Firstly what is a DOS/DDOS? A DoS (Denial of Service) is an […]
A group of Ukrainian hackers going with the handle of CyberBerkut has taken down the official website of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) along with its Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. Screenshot of NATO website, showing error message Hackers launched a DDoS-attack on NATO main web server (www.nato.int), NATO Parliamentary Assembly (www.nato-pa.int) and NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of […]