CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Foremost is the cyber attack that hit a third party IT service provider that operates most of the websites of government agencies related to New Zealand. Second is the news related to Russia’s VTB Bank that has made it official that it was suffering from a cyber attack.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Government institutions in Bulgaria have been hit by a cyber attack during the weekend, experts believe it was launched by Russian threat actors. The infrastructure of government institutions in Bulgaria has been hit by a massive DDoS attack. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Bulgaria). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2022

(USA) has identified an increase in activity within hacktivist groups, they’re leveraging current geopolitical tensions between the Ukraine and Russia to perform cyber-attacks. The actors are positioning themselves as an elite cyber offensive group targeting NATO infrastructure and performing cyberespionage to steal sensitive data.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 27, 2023

Retaliating this move, Kremlin might have thought to take vengeance through cyber-attacks against the west and the first nation to be targeted was Germany. The post Russia starts cyber attacks on the West with Germany for supporting Ukraine appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2022

Taiwan government websites were temporarily forced offline by cyber attacks during the visit to Taipei of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Major Taiwan government websites were temporarily forced offline by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks attacks during the visit to Taipei of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2022

Cyber Spetsnaz is targeting government resources and critical infrastructure in Lithuania after the ban of Russian railway goods. Cyber Spetsnaz is targeting Lithuanian government resources and critical infrastructure – the recent ban on Russian railway goods has caused a new spike of hacktivist activity on the Dark Web.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 31, 2022

Italy has placed all its Critical Infrastructure on high alert as it is facing a cyber threat from the Pro-Russian hacking group Killnet. However, the intensity of the attacks is increasing because of sophistication and so CSIRT has asked all public and private entities to increase vigil over their digital infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2021

The Philippine human rights alliance Karapatan has suffered a massive and prolonged Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, Qurium organizations linked it to the local government. For the past three weeks, the Philippine human rights alliance Karapatan has suffered a heavy and sustained DDoS attack.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. Image: SentinelOne.com.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2023

The Pro-Russia group Killnet is launching a series of DDoS attacks against the websites of US healthcare organizations and hospitals. The Pro-Russia group Killnet launched a series of DDoS attacks against US healthcare organizations and hospitals.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2022

The government of Lithuania announced on Monday that it had been hit by an “intense” cyberattack, likely launched from Moscow, days after the Russian government protested restrictions Vilnius imposed on the rail transit of certain goods to Kaliningrad. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Lithuania). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2023

The government institutions of Moldova have been hit by a wave of phishing attacks since the country offered support to Ukraine. The government institutions of Moldova have been hit by a wave of phishing attacks, threat actors sent more than 1,330 emails to accounts belonging to the country’s state services.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2021

The Belgian interior ministry was targeted by a “sophisticated” cyber attack, a spokesman told RTBF public television on Tuesday. The Belgian interior ministry was hit by a “sophisticated” cyber-espionage attack, the news was confirmed by a spokesman to RTBF public television on Tuesday.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2022

Norway’s National Security Authority (NSM) confirmed that a DDoS attack took down some of the country’s most important websites. NSM did not explicitly attribute the attacks to a threat actor, but the Pro-Russian Legion/Cyber Spetsnaz group published on its Telegram channel a list of Norwegian organizations to target.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Iran comes under cyber-attack again, a massive offensive brought down a large portion of the Iranian access to the Internet. Iran infrastructures are under attack, a massive cyberattack brought down a large portion of the Iranian access to the Internet, according to the experts the national connectivity fell to 75%.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2022

Russian government released a list containing IP addresses and domains behind DDoS attacks that hit Russian infrastructure after the invasion. SecurityAffairs – hacking, DDoS). The post These are the sources of DDoS attacks against Russia, local NCCC warns appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2022

A series of DDoS attacks launched by Russian hacktivists are targeting several Romanian government websites. The Romanian national cyber security and incident response team, DNSC, warns of a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeting government websites. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Pro-Russia hacker group Killnet launched a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on NATO servers, including the NATO Special Operations Headquarters (NSHQ) website. The attack was confirmed by NATO, while the hacker group announced the attack on its Telegram Channel with the following message.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2021

A cyber attack hit the New Zealand central bank, sensitive information has been potentially accessed by the intruders. The New Zealand central bank announced today that a cyber attack hit its infrastructure. SecurityAffairs – hacking, New Zealand central bank). ” reported the NBCNews. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 13, 2022

US Cyber Command’s Cyber National Mission Force has identified a new hacking group dubbed MuddyWater and tracked its operations to an Iranian intelligence funded company. The post US authorities track MuddyWater Hacking Group to Iran appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2022

Estonia announced to have blocked a wave of cyber attacks conducted by Russian hackers against local institutions. Undersecretary for Digital Transformation Luukas Ilves announced that Estonia was hit by the most extensive wave of DDoS attacks it has faced since 2007. The attackers also hit a logistics firm.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2019

Ecuador suffered 40 million cyber attacks on websites of public institutions since the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. In response to the arrest acktivist communities launched several attacks against the Ecuador government. SecurityAffairs – Julian Assange, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Killnet, the hacking group that works for Russian interests, is targeting UK’s Royal Family websites from the past few days. The attacks are of ‘Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)’ variant and supposedly seem to take revenge digitally.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The Dutch National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) confirmed that Pro-Russia group Killnet hit websites of national and European hospitals. The Dutch National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) reported that the websites of several hospital in the Netherlands and Europe were hit by DDoS attacks carried out by pro-Russia hacking group Killnet.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 24, 2023

Microsoft has detected that a Russian-affiliated hacking group dubbed Killnet has been targeting healthcare apps being hosted on the Azure cloud platform. Most were distributed denial of service attacks aka DDoS and a mixture of other attack patterns.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

Austria’s foreign ministry announced that the cyber attack against its systems, allegedly carried by a state actor has ended. This week, the Austrian foreign ministry announced that the cyber attack against its systems has ended. Major cyber ??attacks Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2020

Revista Factum was under prolonged cyber attacks for denouncing corruption, the government of El Salvador had banned it. The intense cyber attacks in October last year, cost the news site almost a week’s downtime. The attacks were part of a wider campaign to discredit the media. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Anonymous and numerous hacker groups linked to the popular collective continue to launch cyber attacks against Russian and Belarussian government organizations and private businesses. However, a cyber attack announced today by the Anonymous-linked group Network Battalion 65 could have serious consequences.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Air Canada did not share details about the attack, at the time of this writing, no known extortion group has claimed responsibility for the cyber attack. The attacks severely impacted operations at several Canadian airports last week. The attacks severely impacted operations at several Canadian airports last week.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 16, 2023

So far, various cyber activities in the digital realm have been observed, including DDoS-attacks , information warfare, and hacktivism campaigns. As the conflict continues, we anticipate potential wiper or ransomware malware attacks in the future. The list contains eight companies with the eighth yet to be updated.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2019

Europol and law enforcement agencies worldwide are investigating DDoS-for-hire services and hunting users that paid them to carry out cyber attacks. The operation dubbed Power Off allowed to shut down the biggest DDoS-for-hire service ( webstresser.org ) and arrest its administrators. webstresser.org.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

. “To help organizations better protect themselves, SecurityScorecard has published a list of proxy IPs to help block the Killnet DDoS bot.” Last week, the group announced the attacks on its Telegram channel, calling for action against the US government healthcare.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2023

Pro-Russia group Killnet launched last week DDoS attacks against the websites of German airports, administration bodies, and banks. The Pro-Russia group Killnet is behind the DDoS attacks that last week hit the websites of German airports, administration bodies, and banks.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2019

Usatyuk developed and operated other DDoS-for-hire services with a co-conspirator between August 2015 and November 2017. The list of illegal DDoS-for-hire services operated by the man includes ExoStress.in (“ ExoStresser ”), QuezStresser.com, Betabooter.com (“ Betabooter ”), Databooter.com, Instabooter.com, Polystress.com, and Zstress.net.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2023

The French Senate’s website was taken offline by a DDoS attack launched by the pro-Russian hacker group NoName. The pro-Russia hacker group NoName is claiming responsibility for a DDoS attack that took the website of the French Senate offline. We are in the final!

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

26 key cyber security stats for 2024 that every user should know, from rising cyber crime rates to the impact of AI technolog y. Cyber Crime Surge: During COVID-19 , cyber crimes shot up by 600%, showing how threats adapt to global changes. Phishing Attacks: Phishing is the top cyber attack, causing 90% of data breaches.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2023

“We assess this group works to further the interests of Hamas, a Sunni militant group that is the de facto governing authority in the Gaza Strip, as activity attributed to it has largely affected organizations perceived as hostile to Hamas.” ” reported The Cyber Express. ” states the report.

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