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If you are wondering what happened to The Pirate Bay and why its domain is offline then you are not alone, The Pirate Bay is currently offline in many parts of the world. Although the reason for its downtime is unknown The Pirate Bay went down at 20:18 UTC. This means the website is down for last 3 […]
According to VPN Mentor, a privacy advocate firm which reviews virtual private networks (VPN), after an in-depth research, it has been discovered that three VPN service providers with millions of customers worldwide are leaking sensitive data such as users’ IP addresses – These VPNs include HotSpot Shield, PureVPN, and Zenmate. What is a VPN used for? The purpose of using […]
Israeli police have arrested a 41-year-old man for allegedly hacking into the security surveillance camera system of a high-profile women’s boutique in northern Tel Aviv, and spying on undressed customers and recording footage of them while they tried on bathing suits. The victims include Israeli singer Eden Ben Zaken and fashion model Neta Alchimister. The identity of the arrested […]
The Memcached-Based DDOS attack heavily targeted NRA Websites and also targeting top order website such as QQ.com and 360.com. The National Rifle Association is America’s longest-standing civil rights organization. The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) is an American nonProfit Organization that advocates for gun rights. Apart from NRA, attack targets top order companies such […]
Memcached DDOS attacks raise from nowhere and made some record-breaking DDoS attacks. GitHub Hit With a massive 1.35 Tbps DDoS Attack and within 5 days an American firm hit with a records breaking 1.7 Tbps DDoS Attack. Two Proof of concepts for the Memcache DDOS attacks has been published online. The first one written in […]
By now the vulnerability in Memcached Servers has been exposed to the masses since its proof of concept (PoC) code was recently published online. That exposure would now allow script kiddies to conduct large-scale DDoS attack as if the recent massive DDoS attack on Github and the world’s largest 1.7Tbps attack on an American firm weren’t enough. But […]
Recently we informed our readers about how attackers are abusing the misconfigured Memcached servers to launch massive DDoS attacks. According to the observation of not one or two but three security firms, massive Memcached reflection distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are being launched with an unprecedented intensification factor of 50,000, which is the largest […]
For the last few days, hackers have been using vulnerable Memcached servers to conducted DDoS attacks including the massive attack on Github website and world’s largest ever 1.7 Tbps of DDoS attack on a US firm. Until now, to the masses, it was unclear how hackers are exploiting the vulnerability in Memcached servers but now, a set […]
A massive amplification DDoS attack hit an undisclosed US-based company, setting new record just days after a similar attack took down GitHub. A DDoS attack using the Memcached vulnerability to perform a reflection/amplification attack has reached 1.7 Tbps, a new record for DDoS attack speed. The Memcached vulnerability has been fixed via a patch released […]
Last week we reported on the world’s largest DDoS attack that hit Github website and caused a brief service disruption. The 1.35 Tbps DDoS attack was carried out by exploiting a recently exposed critical vulnerability in unsecured Memcached servers. Now, the IT security researchers at DDoS protection firm Arbor Networks have confirmed that a US service provider […]
Not even a week has passed since the code sharing platform GitHub suffered the world’s biggest DDoS attack recorded at 1.35Tbps. Just four days later, the world record of the biggest DDoS has been broken in an attempt to take down the systems of an unknown entity identified as a “US-based service provider”. The 1.7Tbps attack […]
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 […]
After a brief hiatus, attackers have returned with a series of new DDoS attacks and this time they have introduced a new technique for launching DDoS attacks, which is much more devastating than before. According to the findings of IT security firm Akamai’s findings, attackers are now launching record-breaking DDoS attacks using a new method […]
The online version control and code distribution platform Github has suffered a series of massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on Wednesday, February 28, 2018, causing service disruption by forcing its website Github.com to go offline. In the first phase of the attack, Github’s website suffered a shocking 1.35 terabits per second (Tbps) spike while in the second phase Github’s network […]
Unsecured Implementation of UDP Protocol Put Memcached Servers at Risk of DDoS Attacks. According to the findings of popular content delivery network/CDN specialists Cloudflare, Akamai and security provider firm Arbor Networks, the implementation of the Memcached servers’ UDP protocol is flawed and anyone can launch a major Distributed Denial of Service (DD0S) attack without much […]
Mirai IoT bot malware is one such piece of malicious coding that created quite a stir within the tech world by converting normal IoT devices into DDoS attack vectors. Originally created by an ex-Rutgers University student, Mirai malware has been resurfacing time and again since its initial launching in September 2016 and every time we […]
On February 9th, 2017, during the opening ceremony of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics its official website suffered a massive cyber attack causing service disruption. Before that IT security researchers at McAfee reported a new malware campaign aimed at the Winter Olympics In both attacks, the prime suspect was North Korea due to the ongoing tensions with South Korea, however, Russian […]
The Winter Olympics Games Organizing Committee is investigating a cyber attack on the event’s Internet and Wi-Fi system. The attack was carried out 45 minutes before the opening ceremony on Friday night in South Korea. According to the Committee’s spokeswoman, Nancy Park, the country’s Ministry of Defense and a cybersecurity team is investigating the service disruption of the […]
You are not alone, Netflix is down for many while for some users the service is taking time to load. The online streaming giant Netflix is currently facing service outage which is playing a major role in not letting users watch movies, dramas or documentaries on the platform. According to DownDetector’s Live Map, a service that keeps track of online […]
You are not alone, Facebook and Instagram are down for many around the world. The social media giant Facebook is currently logging out users from their accounts and displaying a message on its login page that “Facebook Will Be Back Soon Facebook is down (1:20 PM Thursday, January 25, 2018, Eastern Time (ET) for required […]
Coming home to gaming on your favorite computer may be a pastime you always look forward to, but how do you make sure you, and your loved ones, are safe when gaming online? A vast variety of games now allows players to mix with real-life players across the globe on their servers, but keeping yourself […]