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Silence Hacking Crew threatens Australian banks of DDoS attacks

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

DDoS extortionists are blackmailing Australian banks asking for payments of large sums in Monero cryptocurrency threatening DDoS attacks. Cybercriminals are threatening Australian banks of DDoS attacks if they will not pay large sums in Monero cryptocurrency. SecurityAffairs – hacking, DDoS). Pierluigi Paganini.

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A powerful DDoS attack hit Hungarian banks and telecoms services

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Hungarian financial institutions and telecommunications infrastructure were hit by a powerful DDoS attack originating from servers in Russia, China and Vietnam. A powerful DDoS attack hit some Hungarian banking and telecommunication services that briefly disrupted them. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Hungary). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Enemybot, a new DDoS botnet appears in the threat landscape

Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2022

Enemybot is a DDoS botnet that targeted several routers and web servers by exploiting known vulnerabilities. Researchers from Fortinet discovered a new DDoS botnet, tracked as Enemybot, that has targeted several routers and web servers by exploiting known vulnerabilities. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Enemybot).

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German encrypted email service Tutanota suffers DDoS attacks

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The popular encrypted email service Tutanota was hit with a series of DDoS attacks this week targeting its website fist and its DNS providers later. Encrypted email service, Tutanota suffered a series of DDoS attacks that initially targeted the website and later its DNS providers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Tutanota).

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Google mitigated a 2.54 Tbps DDoS attack in 2017, the largest DDoS ever seen

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The Google Cloud team revealed that in September 2017 it has mitigated DDoS attack that reached 2.54 Tbps, the largest DDoS attack of ever. The Google Cloud team revealed that back in September 2017 it has mitigated a powerful DDoS attack that clocked at 2.54 Tbps DDoS attack mitigated by Amazon’s AWS in February.

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The Dutch police took down 15 DDoS-for-hire services in a week

Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2020

Dutch authorities have taken down 15 DDoS-for-hire services in a week, this is another success of law enforcement in the fight against cybercrime. An operation conducted by Dutch authorities last week has shut down 15 DDoS-for-hire services (aka DDoS booters or DDoS stressor), states a press release published by Dutch police.

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New Lucifer DDoS botnet targets Windows systems with multiple exploits

Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2020

A new botnet, tracked as Lucifer, appeared in the threat landscape, it leverages close to a dozen exploits to hack Windows systems. Upon infecting a system the bot turns it into a cryptomining client and could use it to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. SecurityAffairs – hacking, 5G). Pierluigi Paganini.

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New Zealand stock exchange (NZX) halted 2 days by DDoS attack

Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

New Zealand’s stock exchange (NZX) confirmed it was hit by a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack from abroad that knocked it offline two days. The DDoS attack impacted traders, anyway financial or personal information of the users was not accessed. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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New XORDDoS, Kaiji DDoS botnet variants target Docker servers

Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2020

Operators behind XORDDoS and Kaiji DDoS botnets recently started targeting Docker servers exposed online, Trend Micro warns. Trend Micro researchers reported that operators behind XORDDoS and Kaiji DDoS botnets recently started targeting Docker servers exposed online. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Docker). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Akamai mitigated the largest ever PPS DDoS attack

Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2020

Akamai announced to have mitigated a record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that hit a European bank. Akamai revealed that a bank in Europe was hit by a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked a record 809 million packets per second (PPS). SecurityAffairs – hacking, DDoS).

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Developer of DDoS Mirai based botnets sentenced to prison

Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2020

A man accused to have developed distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnets based on the Mirai botnet was sentenced to 13 months in federal prison. Schuchman compromised hundreds of thousands of IoT devices, including home routers and IP cameras, to create multiple DDoS IoT botnets that he rented to carry out the attacks.

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For the second time in a few days, Greek Government websites hit by DDoS attacks

Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2020

The Greek government announced that a DDoS cyber attack hit the official state websites of the prime minister, the national police and fire service and several important ministries. “[A denial-of-service or DDoS attack] led to the malfunction of certain websites.” SecurityAffairs – Greek Government, hacking).

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Man Who Mass-Extorted Psychotherapy Patients Gets Six Years

Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2024

A 26-year-old Finnish man was sentenced to more than six years in prison today after being convicted of hacking into an online psychotherapy clinic, leaking tens of thousands of patient therapy records, and attempting to extort the clinic and patients. Kivimäki was 15 years old at the time.

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Massive DDoS attack brought down 25% Iranian Internet connectivity

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

ICT ministry officials confirmed that the Digital Fortress system repelled a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. A spokesperson for Iran’s Telecommunication Infrastructure Company, confirmed via Twitter that a DDoS attack had been “normalized” with the “intervention of the Dzhafa Shield.”

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HinataBot, a new Go-Based DDoS botnet in the threat landscape

Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2023

A new Golang-based DDoS botnet, tracked as HinataBot, targets routers and servers by exploiting known vulnerabilities. Akamai researchers spotted a new DDoS Golang-based botnet, dubbed HinataBot, which has been observed exploiting known flaws to compromise routers and servers.

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Experts warn of surge in DDoS attacks targeting education institutions

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Experts warn of a surge in the DDoS attacks against education institutions and the academic industry across the world. The DDoS attacks are causing severe issues to the targeted education institutions such as temporarily takedown of the network and online classes. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Dark web Empire Market still down after 3 days. DDoS attack or exit scam?

Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2020

The dark web marketplace Empire Market has been down for at least 3 days, two of the possible reasons, an exit scam or a prolonged DDoS attack. The cause is still unclear, someone blames a prolonged denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, while some users suspect an exit scam. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Empire). Pierluigi Paganini.

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FBI warns cyber actors abusing protocols as new DDoS attack vectors

Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2020

The FBI issued an alert last week warning about the discovery of new network protocols that have been exploited to launch large-scale DDoS attacks. The Federal Bureau of Investigation sent an alert last week warning about large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that abused new network protocols. continues the report.

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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

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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T-Mobile suffered a major outage in the US allegedly caused by a massive DDoS attack

Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2020

Wireless carrier T-Mobile suffered a major outage in the United States, that impacted service at other carriers, due to a “massive” DDoS attack. Wireless carrier T-Mobile suffered a massive DDoS attack that caused a major outage in the United States that impacted service at other carriers due to a “massive” DDoS attack.

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Attackers are hacking NSC Linear eMerge E3 building access systems to launch DDoS attacks

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Researchers from SonicWall revealed that hackers are attempting to compromise Linear eMerge E3 smart building access systems to recruit them in a DDoS botnet. CVE-2019-7256 is actively being exploited by DDoS botnet operators. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. 06 and older.

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Email Provider VFEmail Suffers ‘Catastrophic’ Hack

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

I wrote about the company in 2015 after it suffered a debilitating distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack after Romero declined to pay a ransom demand from an online extortion group. Another series of DDoS attacks in 2017 forced VFEmail to find a new hosting provider. based ISP Staminus come to mind).

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DDoS-for-Hire Services operator sentenced to 13 months in prison

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

the administrator of DDoS-for-hire services was sentenced to 13 months in prison, and additional three years of supervised release. Usatyuk , a man that was operating several DDoS-for-hire services was sentenced to 13 months in prison, and additional three years of supervised release. Sergiy P. , hours of network downtime.

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A new DDoS technique abuses HTML5 Hyperlink Audit Ping in massive attacks

Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2019

Experts at Imperva discovered a new type of large-scale DDoS attack that abuses the HTML5 Ping-based hyperlink auditing feature. Experts at Imperva Vitaly Simonovich and Dima Bekerman observed a large-scale DDoS attack abusing the HTML5 Ping-based hyperlink auditing feature. SecurityAffairs – hacking, HTML5).

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Law enforcement take down 15 DDoS-for-Hire services

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The Department of Justice (DoJ) announced that the FBI seized 15 domains associated with DDoS-for-hire services. The FBI has seized 15 domains associated with DDoS-for-hire services (aka booters or stressers ) that were used by their customers to launch powerful DDoS attacks. Authorities Take Down 15 DDoS-for-Hire Websites.

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SANDMAN AND FINEPROXY BEHIND THE DDOS ATTACKS AGAINST TIMETV.LIVE

Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

Timetv.live is the latest Azeri news site targeted by Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks launched by Sandman threat actor, the attack took place on March 21, 2020. Just like many other DDoS attacks we have seen in the past against Azeri media, the attacker monitors the success of the floods using the HostTracker service.

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The operator of DDoS-for-hire service pleads guilty

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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Massive DDos attack hit Telegram, company says most of junk traffic is from China

Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2019

Encrypted messaging service Telegram was hit by a major DDoS attack apparently originated from China, likely linked to the ongoing political unrest in Hong Kong. We’re currently experiencing a powerful DDoS attack, Telegram users in the Americas and some users from other countries may experience connection issues. Pierluigi Paganini.

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A few dollars to bring down sites with new Bushido-based DDoS-for-hire service

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Security researchers at FortiGuard Labs have discovered a new DDoS-for-hire service called “ 0x-booter” built with leaked code that implements an easy to use interface. “ The DDoS-for-hire service allows users to power different attacks, primarily at the Transport and Application layers. ” .

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Hackers use hackers spreading tainted hacking tools in long-running campaign

Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2020

Who is hacking the hackers? Experts from Cybereason a mysterious hackers group is targeting other hackers by spreading tainted hacking tools. Experts from security firm Cybereason warn of a mysterious group of hackers that are distributing trojanized hacking tools on an almost daily basis for the past years.

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Dutch police shut down bulletproof service hosting tens of DDoS botnets

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Dutch police seized a bulletproof hosting service in a major takedown, the infrastructure was used by tens of IoT botnets involved in DDoS attacks. The servers were hosted at an unnamed data center in Amsterdam, it was used by tens of IoT botnets involved in DDoS attacks worldwide. ” continues the statement. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Brazil expert discovers Oracle flaw that allows massive DDoS attacks

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

million servers running the RPCBIND service from being used in amplified DDoS attacks. The data showed that a DDoS attack was in progress, coming from port 111 of several servers, all from other countries. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Securi ty Affairs – Oracle, DDoS).

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Duke-Cohan sentenced to three years in prison due to false bomb threats and DDoS

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2018

The British teenager George Duke-Cohan (19) has been sentenced to three years in prison due to false bomb threats and carrying out DDoS attacks. The team was offering a DDoS-for-hire service that has many similarities with the booter implemented by the popular Lizard Squad hacking crew. Security Affairs – cybercrime, DDoS).

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China used the Great Cannon DDoS Tool against forum used by Hong Kong protestors

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2019

China is accused to have used the “Great Cannon” DDoS tool to launch attacks against LIHKG , a forum used by Hong Kong residents to organize protests. The last time the Great Cannon was used by the Chinese authorities was in 2017 when it was involved in DDoS attacks on the Mingjingnews.com site, a US-based Chinese media outlet.

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DDoS Attack on Amazon Web Services caused intermittently outage

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2019

This week Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a major distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that made it unavailable for some customers. This week, threat actors launched a massive DDoS attack against Amazon Web Services (AWS) causing the inability of some customers to access their AWS S3 buckets. SecurityAffairs – Amazon, DDoS).

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Bitcoin Core Team fixes a critical DDoS flaw in wallet software

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Bitcoin Core Software fixed a critical DDoS attack vulnerability in the Bitcoin Core wallet software tracked as CVE-2018-17144. The flaw potentially affects all recent versions of the BTC system, but anyway, experts pointed out that a coordinated Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against Bitcoin blockchain is very expensive.

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Police arrested Apophis Squad member responsible for ProtonMail DDoS attack

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

UK NCA arrested a member of the Apophis Squad hacker group that launched distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against many organizations, including ProtonMail. National Crime Agency (NCA) announced the arrest of the 19-year-old George Duke-Cohan from Hertfordshire that was involved in the ProtonMail DDoS attack.

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Hacker who disrupted Sony gaming gets a 27-months jail sentence

Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2019

Austin Thompson (23) from Utah, the hacker who carried out massive DDoS attacks on Sony, EA, and Steam gets a 27-months prison sentence. The hacker who brought offline with massive DDoS attacks online gaming networks between December 2013 and January 2014 has been sentenced to 27 months in prison. SecurityAffairs – Sony, DDoS).

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Anonymous Belgium hacker identified after dropping USB drive while throwing Molotov cocktail

Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2019

The Anonymous member is a 35-year-old man from Roeselare, Belgium, was arrested after throwing a Molotov cocktail at the Crelan Bank office in Rumbeke, back in 2014. The member of Anonymous was also involved in DDoS attacks against online banking system of the Crelan Bank that shut down the portal on numerous occasions.

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250 Webstresser Users to Face Legal Action

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

. “Size does not matter – all levels of users are under the radar of law enforcement, be it a gamer booting out the competition out of a game, or a high-level hacker carrying out DDoS attacks against commercial targets for financial gain,” Europol officials warned.

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JUNE 28, 2020

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Finland’s Most-Wanted Hacker Nabbed in France

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

In 2013, Kurittu worked on an investigation involving Kivimäki’s use of the Zbot botnet, among other activities Kivimäki engaged in as a member of the hacker group Hack the Planet (HTP).” The DDoS-for-hire service allegedly operated by Kivimäki in 2012. Kivimäki was 15 years old at the time.

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Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

Shortly after that, those same servers came under a sustained distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Chaput said whoever was behind the DDoS was definitely not using point-and-click DDoS tools, like a booter or stresser service. A DIRECT QUOT The domain quot[.]pw In May 2020, Zipper told another Lolzteam member that quot[.]pw

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JUNE 21, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! authorities sanction six Nigerian nationals for BEC and Romance Fraud.

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Silence Hacking Crew threatens Australian banks of DDoS attacks

A powerful DDoS attack hit Hungarian banks and telecoms services

Trending Sources

Enemybot, a new DDoS botnet appears in the threat landscape

German encrypted email service Tutanota suffers DDoS attacks

Google mitigated a 2.54 Tbps DDoS attack in 2017, the largest DDoS ever seen

The Dutch police took down 15 DDoS-for-hire services in a week

New Lucifer DDoS botnet targets Windows systems with multiple exploits

New Zealand stock exchange (NZX) halted 2 days by DDoS attack

New XORDDoS, Kaiji DDoS botnet variants target Docker servers

Akamai mitigated the largest ever PPS DDoS attack

Developer of DDoS Mirai based botnets sentenced to prison

For the second time in a few days, Greek Government websites hit by DDoS attacks

Man Who Mass-Extorted Psychotherapy Patients Gets Six Years

Massive DDoS attack brought down 25% Iranian Internet connectivity

HinataBot, a new Go-Based DDoS botnet in the threat landscape

Experts warn of surge in DDoS attacks targeting education institutions

Dark web Empire Market still down after 3 days. DDoS attack or exit scam?

FBI warns cyber actors abusing protocols as new DDoS attack vectors

Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

T-Mobile suffered a major outage in the US allegedly caused by a massive DDoS attack

Attackers are hacking NSC Linear eMerge E3 building access systems to launch DDoS attacks

Email Provider VFEmail Suffers ‘Catastrophic’ Hack

DDoS-for-Hire Services operator sentenced to 13 months in prison

A new DDoS technique abuses HTML5 Hyperlink Audit Ping in massive attacks

Law enforcement take down 15 DDoS-for-Hire services

SANDMAN AND FINEPROXY BEHIND THE DDOS ATTACKS AGAINST TIMETV.LIVE

The operator of DDoS-for-hire service pleads guilty

Massive DDos attack hit Telegram, company says most of junk traffic is from China

A few dollars to bring down sites with new Bushido-based DDoS-for-hire service

Hackers use hackers spreading tainted hacking tools in long-running campaign

Dutch police shut down bulletproof service hosting tens of DDoS botnets

Brazil expert discovers Oracle flaw that allows massive DDoS attacks

Duke-Cohan sentenced to three years in prison due to false bomb threats and DDoS

China used the Great Cannon DDoS Tool against forum used by Hong Kong protestors

DDoS Attack on Amazon Web Services caused intermittently outage

Bitcoin Core Team fixes a critical DDoS flaw in wallet software

Police arrested Apophis Squad member responsible for ProtonMail DDoS attack

Hacker who disrupted Sony gaming gets a 27-months jail sentence

Anonymous Belgium hacker identified after dropping USB drive while throwing Molotov cocktail

250 Webstresser Users to Face Legal Action

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Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

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