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Network security researchers from Netlab firm have just released a report that mentions that Linux servers running no patched Webmin installations are under a serious attack campaign that aims to integrate the compromised implementations to a botnet known as Roboto. During their research, specialists were able to collect the bot and the download botnet modules, […]
Increasingly, cybersecurity incidents are affecting thousands, or even millions, of members of the gamer community. According to experts in ethical hacking, this weekend many fans of the popular Epic Games videogame Fortnite reported an alleged denial of service (DoS) attack against its online servers, preventing them from accessing their accounts and connecting to their matches. […]
According to digital forensics specialists, Amazon Web Services (AWS), the technology giant’s cloud computing services division, has been the victim of a sustained denial of service (DoS) attack. Apparently, the threat actors kept the attack for more than eight hours. The attack affected the company’s DNS Router 53 service, although many other outages were reported […]
It seems that companies will never stop being inconvenienced by some security flaws. Vulnerability testing experts report that Cisco has extended the update patch to address a critical denial of service (DoS) vulnerability that was first detected and corrected in 2016. The vulnerability in question, tracked as CVE-2016-1409 is a flaw on the IPv6 packet […]
According to ethical hacking specialists, over the past weekend multiple Wikipedia sites for some regions of Europe and the Middle East experienced failures due to a denial of service (DDoS) attack; the organization claims that the incident is already being investigated through the Wikimedia Foundation, which is responsible for overseeing various aspects of the online […]
The gamer community got a nasty surprise last weekend. Web application security specialists reported that, on Saturday morning, US users of the online game World of Warcraft Classic began reporting multiple service failures; hours later, Blizzard Entertainment confirmed that the platform was under a denial of service (DDoS) attack. “We can confirm that the reported […]
This week, Austin Thompson, a 23-year-old from Utah, US, was sentenced to two years and three months in prison after being charged and found guilty of deploying a series of denial of service (DDoS) attacks against the online video games servers of Sony, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Nintendo, among others, reported experts in digital forensics. Thompson, […]
The instant messaging service Telegram suffered a denial of service (DoS) attack this Wednesday; through Twitter, the company unveiled the incident, mentioning that users might experience some connection problems when using the service. According to web application security experts, the company’s CEO has pointed to the Chinese government as responsible for the incident. Pavel Durov, […]
During a recent cybersecurity event in California, U.S., specialists offered a conference discussing the consequences of a cyber attack on a hospital’s systems or medical devices connected to a network; during the conference, experts stated that cyberattacks against hospitals increased over 1200% last year. One of the main questions when thinking about a situation of […]
A denial-of-service condition arose in an electric company supplying energy to various states in the west of the United States; according to cybersecurity specialists, the incident was serious enough for the American energy authority to be notified. The cybersecurity incident generated disruptions in the operation of some electrical systems for more than 10 hours during […]
A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack halted heating distribution at least in two properties in the city of Lappeenranta, located in eastern finland. In both of the events the attacks disabled the computers that were controlling heating in the buildings. Both of the buildings where managed by Valtia. The company who is in charge […]