Computers and Electronics Cybercrime DDOS Internet 
Malwarebytes
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
At the end of January, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center warned that the KillNet group is actively targeting the US healthcare sector with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says it helped dozens of hospitals respond to these DDoS incidents.
Krebs on Security
JANUARY 8, 2024
In 2020, the United States brought charges against four men accused of building a bulletproof hosting empire that once dominated the Russian cybercrime industry and supported multiple organized cybercrime groups. From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a
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Krebs on Security
DECEMBER 20, 2018
The seizure notice appearing on the homepage this week of more than a dozen popular “booter” or “stresser” DDoS-for-hire Web sites. Booter sites are dangerous because they help lower the barriers to cybercrime, allowing even complete novices to launch sophisticated and crippling attacks with the click of a button.
SecureList
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to cause a massive wave of poverty, and that invariably translates into more people resorting to crime, including cybercrime. Cracking down hard on the cybercrime world. If not ransomware, then DDoS or possibly both. Analysis of forecasts for 2021. Extortion on the rise.
SecureList
DECEMBER 14, 2022
While the impact of these destructive cyber-attacks paled in comparison to the effects of the kinetic attacks taking place at the same time, it should be noted that this capability could in theory be directed against any country outside of the context of an armed conflict and under the pretense of traditional cybercrime activity.
Krebs on Security
DECEMBER 14, 2023
retail giant Target was battling a wide-ranging computer intrusion that compromised more than 40 million customer payment cards over the previous month. That story about the Flashback author was possible because a source had obtained a Web browser authentication cookie for a founding member of a Russian cybercrime forum called BlackSEO.
SecureList
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
In Q3 2022, DDoS attacks were, more often than not, it seemed, politically motivated. As before, most news was focused on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, but other high-profile events also affected the DDoS landscape this quarter. The attackers stated on Telegram that they were “testing a new DDoS method.”
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