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A hacktivist group known as Mysterious Team Bangladesh has been linked to over 750 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and 78 website defacements since June 2022. “The group most frequently attacks logistics, government, and financial sector organizations in India and Israel,” Singapore-headquartered cybersecurity firm Group-IB said in a report shared with The Hacker News. “The group […]
A nascent Linux-based botnet named Enemybot has expanded its capabilities to include recently disclosed security vulnerabilities in its arsenal to target web servers, Android devices, and content management systems (CMS). “The malware is rapidly adopting one-day vulnerabilities as part of its exploitation capabilities,” AT&T Alien Labs said in a technical write-up published last week. “Services […]
Imperva security firm recently claimed that it has managed to foil a massive ransom distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyberattack that peaked at 2.5 million requests per second recently (on a single server), keeping some unnamed site up and running and uncrashed by reducing the RPS by 99%. Ransom DDoS attacks have been around for a long […]
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 […]
The printer started as a simple device for printing on paper, providing users with a physical copy of their documents. However, this past decade, a printer even at home became networked in order to be used by multiple users at the same time. At the turn of the 2010’s decade, the printer which used to […]
We have repeatedly reported here in hackercombat.com about stories regarding email triggering malware intruding into the internal network and eventually leaking a considerable amount of personal information from data centers in many instances. Specifically, after grasping the name and business content of the recipient, an email disguised to misunderstand the business email sent from an […]
A cybercriminal who takes advantage of compromised credentials rather than having to hack a DNS server, warning a DNS expert, is what we call DNS-level attacks. This is getting popular in the cyber world. One interesting thing about attacks such as DNSpionage and Sea Turtle, Infoblox’s vice president of engineering, chief DNS architect and senior […]
The secure messaging app Telegram hit by a powerful DDoS attack and the users in united states and other countries may experience connection issues with Telegram. Telegram is a free instant messaging app like WhatsApp, well-known for its encryption, privacy, and self-destructive private messages. With Telegram, you can access your messages across multiple devices. — […]
According to ZDNet, a hacker by the name Gnosticplayers reveals to them in February about wanting to put up data of over one billion users for sale. ZDNet finds that the hacker is close to achieving this target after having released nearly 65.5 million records last week. So any soon he will reach that magic […]
The threat of DDoS (Denial-of-Service) attacks that send massive processing demands from multiple Internet-connected devices (be it a PC, a smartphone, a tablet or an IoT) to the target server and bring the system down has grown tremendously in the past decade. It is possible that an attack may shut down a network of one […]
Believe it or not, in the early days of the Internet, all the domain names (nodes) it had been listed in just one file, the host file. Today, the host file has been demoted to just a way to redirect an IP address to a specific domain name, which the operating system checks first before […]
Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks are the antecedent to DDoS attacks. Earlier, DoS attacks were the main source to disrupt computer systems on a network. It originates from a single machine and may look very simple; a basic ping flood attack can be accomplished By sending ICMP (ping) requests to a targeted server, its process and respond […]
Police agencies found the hacker after he used the IP of his address to access his platforms According to network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security, a U.S. citizen has pleaded guilty to administering eight different online platforms that provided stresser services to deploy Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks […]
An Operator of DDoS-as-a Service (Illegal Booter Services) pleads guilty in North Carolina count for his massive operations of DDoS attack against 1.3 million targets. Sergiy P. Usatyuk, illegal DDoS service operator from Orland Park arrested by FBI for supporting this illegal services with his co-conspirator to develop, control and operate a number of booter […]
British police seized over 50 devices probably used to perform cyberattacks during several raids British authorities have carried out multiple raids against hundreds of cybercriminals throughout the United Kingdom. According to network security and ethical hacking experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security, these operations are part of an international campaign to trap users […]
DDoS attacks are launched aiming to exhaust the resources of network, application or service so that the legitimate users unable to access the resource. Imperva mitigated a high-intensity DDoS attack for one of their customers which crossed 500 million packets per second (Mpps) mark which 4 times higher than the DDo attack on Github happened last […]
Universities and colleges are among the risk group that is mostly affected by the frequent DDOS attacks according to the latest research. For example, in the UK alone, more than 200 universities were hit by 850 DDOS attacks in 2018. This raises a major concern about the security of universities and colleges worldwide. The attackers […]
As the holiday season continues, people have more time for their families and of course for computer gaming. PC gaming has evolved from a hobbyist activity to a full-blown sport since the last decade. With Moore’s Law as its foundation, PC hardware went cheaper while computing power doubles every 18 months. This is a completely […]
Anti DDoS service companies have become a surprise sunshine industry for at least the last five years. This business, which made Cloudflare a household name enables websites to be more resilient when facing abnormal levels of traffic. Companies that could have experienced downtime due to being targeted by DDoS were saved and are still being […]
Researchers have discovered a new service of DDoS attacks built from code leaks Specialists in digital forensics and cybersecurity from the International Institute of Cyber Security report the emergence of a new service to deploy Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks that any user could hire called “0x-booter” created from leaked code that implements a very easy-to-use interface. According to the research […]
Bad news for those who use Hadoop for data analytics…there’s a new botnet out there that’s targeting Hadoop clusters seeking to perform DDoS attacks. (Hadoop, which is an open source distributed processing framework, allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming models). The new, unsophisticated Linux-based botnet […]