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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 computer of a Nascar race team was hacked by unknown culprits who locked up all the files and demanded ransom in bitcoin in order to unlock the system! One of the Nascar race teams witnessed their chief’s computer getting hacked with a ransomware malware locking up his files and demanding ransom in Bitcoin. Dave […]
A team of attackers shut down several ISIS aka Daesh websites against terrorist attacks in Nice and Middle Eastern countries! Terrorism has no religion that’s why whenever a terrorist attack is carried out the victims are innocent people irrespective of race or religion. Hackers and DDoSers, on the other hand, are well aware of the […]
A few months ago, United States General Vincent Brooks warned the Senate about the growing threat from North Korean cyber-attacks, saying, “While I would not characterize them as the best in the world, they are among the best in the world, and the best organized.” Kim Jong on Computer (Courtesy of the BBC) In the […]
Short Bytes: Arbor Networks has published the statistics of the DDoS attacks in the first half of 2016. The largest one went up to 579Gbps. An interactive map shows the DDoS attacks made on a global level. Piracy and Cyber Attacks are two of the major concerns the world has been facing. We told you […]
Anonymous shut down Rio de Janeiro court website for blocking WhatsApp in Brazil! The online hacktivist Anonymous Brazil said on Tuesday (19th) that in a collective cyber attack the group has shut down the official website of the Court of Rio de Janeiro in response to its decision to block the messaging app service WhatsApp in […]
Security cameras are widely used around the world but did you ever think what privacy threat they pose to us? — Here is a stunning research from Romeoville, IL-based tech and security firm Protection1. The recent Lizard Squad hack which resulted in a lot of CCTV cameras targeted and hijacked by a DDOS attack has highlighted the need […]
Ghost Squad Hackers defaced Baton Rouge city website against police brutality leading to the death of Alton Sterling! The subdomain of Baton Rouge City government website has been hacked twice in one day by none other than Ghost Squad Hackers who previously made news for DDoSing Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and Black Lives Matter websites. This time, the […]
PokemonGo servers went offline earlier today and PoodleCorp hacking group claimed they were behind the attack! While everyone is playing PokemonGo game there are some people who do things a bit different and this time, it’s the PoodleCorp hacking group has done something different by conducting a massive DDoS attack on PokemonGo servers forcing the service to […]
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 […]
Anonymous Africa is now targeting government of Zimbabwe in support of ongoing protests against president Robert Mugabe! The online hacktivists Anonymous conducted a series of cyber attacks on the Zimbabwe government websites last Monday for #ZimShutDown2016 or #ShutDownZimbabwe, a protest movement in which citizens are protesting against the Robert Mugabe’s government who has been in power for last 36 years. […]
Lizard Squad hackers have been conducting Distributed Denial of Service (#DDoS) Attacks on banking and government institutions after compromising CCTV devices worldwide! Earlier in two previous incidents, researchers discovered hackers taking over thousands of CCTV devices and conducting DDoS attacks on small business websites; now an IT security firm Arbor Networks has exposed a third event in which famous Lizard […]
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 […]
Anonymous hacktivists conducted DDoS attacks on the Bilderberg Group website when the group was having a meeting in Germany! It seems like the online hacktivist Anonymous has moved its focus from banks to even bigger fishes as this time the group has conducted a powerful cyber attack on the official website of Bilderberg Group, Bilderberg conference, Bilderberg […]
Short Bytes: A ping packet can also be malformed to perform denial of service attack by sending continuous ping packets to the target IP address. A continuous ping will cause buffer overflow at the target system and will cause the target system to crash. We often use the CMD command “Ping” to mostly check if […]
If there was an award for world’s leading hacktivist group it would have gone to none other than Anonymous! This shouldn’t come as a surprise to any of us at all. Of late, the world famous group of hacktivists Anonymous has once again topped the list of the most active hacker group so far in 2016 […]
Incapsula firm found someone posting DDoS attack service adverts on Fiverr — Fiverr deleted the listings but in return the company was hit by DDoS attacks! Fiverr is a world renowned online marketplace offering tasks and services but many didn’t envisage people would be using the platform for illegal activities such as uploading ads to offer Distributed […]
NS1 has been providing DNS services to Imgur, Yelp, Max CDN, OpenX, Collective and imgIX! NS1, one of the leading DNS providers in the world have revealed that their servers have been facing massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks for last two weeks. That’s not all, the attackers also targeted NS1’s partners by shutting […]
Donald Trump is facing fire from the hacktivist community lately— This time, his Hotel Collection website has been shut down by Ghost Squad! Remember the ruthless DDoS attackers from Ghost Squad who previously shut down websites of several banks, Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement? They are back with […]
Can a Bathroom Bill Compel Anonymous to Take Down Websites in North Carolina? — Sure it can! Anonymous, the world’s most active group of hacktivists, has taken down a number of government websites in North Carolina over the last few days. The reason behind attacking the websites is the Bathroom Law. For your information, this […]