DDoS

Elon Musk claims live Trump interview on X derailed by DDoS

Once-great platform tanks another major political livestream, bigly

Off-Prem13 Aug 2024 | 281

FBI, CISA remind US voters that DDoS attacks can't touch election systems

PSA comes amid multiple IT services crises in recent days

Cyber-crime01 Aug 2024 | 16

'Error' in Microsoft's DDoS defenses amplified 8-hour Azure outage

A playbook full of strategies and someone fumbles the implementation

CSO31 Jul 2024 | 18

Global cops power down world's 'most prolific' DDoS dealership

One arrest was made weeks ago but no word on the suspect's identity yet

Cyber-crime22 Jul 2024 | 1

Multi-day DDoS storm batters Internet Archive

Updated Think this is bad? See what Big Media wants to do to us, warns founder

Cyber-crime29 May 2024 | 51

Mastodon delays firm fix for link previews DDoSing sites

Updated Decentralization is great until everyone wants to grab data from your web server

Security06 May 2024 | 16

Feline firewall woke developer to declaw DDoS disaster

System alerts were pinging but cat had no way of knowing what was happening

Offbeat15 Apr 2024 | 19

Some 300,000 IPs vulnerable to this Loop DoS attack

Easy to exploit, not yet exploited, not widely patched – pick three

Research24 Mar 2024 | 24

French government sites disrupted by très grande DDoS

Russia and Sudan top the list of suspects

Public Sector12 Mar 2024 | 7

NKabuse backdoor harnesses blockchain brawn to hit several architectures

Novel malware adapts delivers DDoS attacks and provides RAT functionality

Research15 Dec 2023 | 3

Inside Denmark’s hell week as critical infrastructure orgs faced cyberattacks

Zyxel zero days and nation-state actors (maybe) had a hand in the sector’s worst cybersecurity event on record

Cyber-crime13 Nov 2023 | 38

DDoS-like attack brought down OpenAI this week, not just its purported popularity

Plus: Lab launches dataset sharing initiative for its own benefit

AI + ML09 Nov 2023 | 2

HTTP/2 'Rapid Reset' zero-day exploited in biggest DDoS deluge seen yet

Botnet storm drowned last record with 398 million requests per second

CSO10 Oct 2023 | 13

Mirai reloads exploit arsenal as botnet embarks on another expansion drive

With 13 new payloads it's the biggest update to the botnet in months

Research10 Oct 2023 |

Huge DDoS attack against US financial institution thwarted

Akamai reckons traffic flood peaked at 55.1 million packets per second

Cyber-crime11 Sep 2023 | 1

With dead-time dump, Microsoft revealed DDoS as cause of recent cloud outages

Previous claims its own software updates were the issue remain almost, kinda, plausible

Security19 Jun 2023 | 20

Microsoft battles through two 365 outages in one day

Updated Windows titan blames technical problems while hacktivists claim it woz them wot did it

SaaS06 Jun 2023 | 36

Russian IT guy sent to labor camp for DDoSing Kremlin websites

Pro-Ukraine techie gets hard time

Cyber-crime19 May 2023 | 25

European air traffic control confirms website 'under attack' by pro-Russia hackers

Another cyber nuisance in support of Putin's war, nothing too serious

Cyber-crime22 Apr 2023 | 10

Frankenstein malware stitched together from code of others disguised as PyPI package

Crime-as-a-service vendors mix and match components as needed by client

Research03 Mar 2023 | 3

News Corp outfoxed by IT intruders for years

All the news that's fit to pwn

Cyber-crime28 Feb 2023 | 37

Russian hacktivists DDoS hospitals, with pathetic results

Not that we're urging them to try harder or anything

Security28 Feb 2023 | 11

'Russian hacktivists' brag of flooding German airport sites

In other words, script kiddies up to shenanigans again

Cyber-crime17 Feb 2023 | 4

Record-breaking number of record-breaking DDoS attacks confirmed

And growing abuse of cloud – because using hijacked Brazilian cable modems to down sites is so 2013

Security14 Feb 2023 |

Here's a list of proxy IPs to help block KillNet's DDoS bots

Put pro-Putin bots on the do not call list

Security06 Feb 2023 | 7

Zerobot malware now shooting for Apache systems

Upgraded threat, time to patch

Security22 Dec 2022 | 11

Sting op takes down 50 DDoS-for-hire domains, seven people collared

Cops give denial-of-service sites an extra special denial of service

Security15 Dec 2022 | 2

Microsoft: (Cyber) winter is coming as DDoS attack disrupts Russian bank

Where's the Night's Watch when you need them?

Cyber-crime07 Dec 2022 | 9

European Parliament Putin things back together after cyber attack

DDoS started not long after Russia was declared a state sponsor of terrorism

Cyber-crime24 Nov 2022 | 56

Azure extends DDoS attack protection down to small business users, for a fee

Microsoft moves IP Protection into public preview

Software22 Nov 2022 | 2

FBI: Russian hacktivists achieve only 'limited' DDoS success

OK, so you've got a botnet. That don't impress me much

Cyber-crime08 Nov 2022 | 6

Pro-Putin goons claim responsibility for blowing US airport websites offline

Updated How's that boot taste?

Security10 Oct 2022 | 26

Criminal multitool LilithBot arrives on malware-as-a-service scene

Bespoke botnet up for grabs from outfit praised for, er, customer service

Research10 Oct 2022 | 1

Eastern European org hit by second record-smashing DDoS attack

Cough, cough, U, cough, kraine

Security16 Sep 2022 | 7

LockBit gang hit by DDoS attack after threatening to leak Entrust ransomware data

Prolific group pummeled days after claiming to be file thief behind attack on cybersecurity vendor

Cyber-crime22 Aug 2022 | 7

Dark Utilities C2 service draws thousands of cyber criminals

Nascent platform provides miscreants an easier and cheaper way to launch remote access, DDoS, and other attacks

Security08 Aug 2022 | 1

Tencent Cloud expands CDN using its own security tools

Cloudflare may well feel flattered by this offering

Off-Prem02 Aug 2022 |

Akamai: We stopped record DDoS attack in Europe

A 'sophisticated, global botnet' held an Eastern European biz under siege over 30 days

Cyber-crime01 Aug 2022 | 12

Indonesia sparks outrage by blocking PayPal, gaming sites, for compliance oversight

Yahoo! was blocked too, but … meh

Legal01 Aug 2022 | 18

Cyber-mercenaries for hire represent shifting criminal business model

Emerging threat group offers a broad range of attack services

Security25 Jul 2022 | 9

Meet Mantis – the tiny shrimp that launched 3,000 DDoS attacks

Watch out for deadly pinchers after that record-breaking attack

Cyber-crime15 Jul 2022 | 7

Malaysia-linked DragonForce hacktivists attack Indian targets

Just what we needed: a threat to rival Anonymous

Research15 Jun 2022 | 5

Cloudflare says it thwarted record-breaking HTTPS DDoS flood

26m requests a second? Not legit traffic, not even Bill Gates doing $1m giveaways could manage that

CSO14 Jun 2022 | 2

Man gets two years in prison for selling 200,000 DDoS hits

Over 2,000 customers with malice on their minds

Security14 Jun 2022 | 3

Let's play everyone's favorite game: REvil? Or Not REvil?

Another day, another DDoS attack that tries to scare the victim into paying up with mention of dreaded gang

Cyber-crime27 May 2022 | 3

Verizon: Ransomware sees biggest jump in five years

We're only here for DBIRs

Research26 May 2022 | 6

Shopping for malware: $260 gets you a password stealer. $90 for a crypto-miner...

We take a look at low, low subscription prices – not that we want to give anyone any ideas

Research14 May 2022 | 6

Cloudflare stomps huge DDoS attack on crypto platform

At 15.3 million requests per second, the assault was the largest HTTPS blitz on record lasting 15 seconds

Security28 Apr 2022 | 15

DDoS attacks at an all-time-high in Q1 2022, says Kaspersky

More attacks and more targeted attacks than ever before. What could have happened to cause that uptick?

Security26 Apr 2022 | 2

Enemybot botnet uses Gafgyt source code with a sprinkling of Mirai

Keksec malware used for DDoS attacks, may spread to cryptomining, Fortinet says

Security13 Apr 2022 | 1

Attackers exploit Spring4Shell flaw to let loose the Mirai botnet

Trend Micro says vulnerable systems in Singapore have been compromised

Security11 Apr 2022 | 3

Finnish govt websites knocked down as Ukraine President addresses MPs

Online attacks follow suspected airspace violation by Russian aircraft

Security09 Apr 2022 | 186

Borat RAT: Multiple threat of ransomware, DDoS and spyware

Thought Sacha Baron Cohen was a terrible threat actor? Get a load of this: encrypts/steals data, records audio/video and controls keyboard

Security04 Apr 2022 | 6

Viasat spills on the Russian attack, warns of continued risks

A misconfigured VPN appliance is to blame

Security30 Mar 2022 | 8

LokiLocker ransomware family spotted with built-in wiper

BlackBerry says extortionists erase documents if ransom unpaid

Security16 Mar 2022 | 1

Huge DDoS attack temporarily kicks Israeli government sites offline

A state of emergency is declared as officials assess the damage and look for culprits

Security15 Mar 2022 |