CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

A Distributed Denial of Service attack shortly known as DDoS resulted in the disruption of internet services across New Zealand leading to shut down or temporary closure of businesses from afternoon today, i.e. September 3rd,2021. To those who are unaware of what is a DDoS attack, here’s a bit of explanation.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Russia’s second-largest bank VTB Bank reveals it is facing the largest DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack in its history. State-owned VTB Bank, the second-largest financial institution in Russia, says it is facing the largest DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack in its history. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 10, 2022

According to a research carried out by Check Point Research, a 50% rise in cyber attacks is being witnessed year on year and the target points were mostly touted to be the organizations operating in education/research and military or government sectors.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 26, 2022

A distributed denial of service attack, fondly known as DDoS, has reportedly hit North Korea in early hours of Wednesday, bringing down whole of the connectivity to a near halt. South Korea launched the attack in retaliation for the Kim Jong Un’s fifth missile test conducted a few days ago.

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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

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. — Ivan Geshev (@IvanGeshevPG) October 15, 2022.

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

A massive DDoS cyber attack, likely carried out by Pro-Russia hacker group NoName , severely impacted operations at several Canadian airports last week, reported Recorded Future News. Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) was able to mitigate the attack after a few hours. ” reads the alert.

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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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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. The post New Zealand central bank hit by a cyber attack appeared first on Security Affairs.

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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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IT Security Guru

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Cybersecurity Threats and Digital Warfare One of the most significant threats to national security in the modern era is cyber warfare. Cyber attacks can compromise critical infrastructure, financial systems, and sensitive government data.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Technion University, one of the top technology schools in Israel, has issued a press update that most of its systems were targeted by a ransomware attack and it could be the work of the DarkBit hacking group, a gang that is opposing the government policies of Israel. TB from the servers of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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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. which was one of the 1st targets of the new campaign.

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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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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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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

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

OCTOBER 13, 2024

CISA adds Windows and Qualcomm bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Three new Ivanti CSA zero-day actively exploited in attacks Ukrainian national pleads guilty in U.S. Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 31, 2022

About 3,000 attacks were launched on the infrastructure between May 11 to May 21, and this includes the attack launched on the voting system of the Eurovision Song Contest that witnessed Ukraine winning the competition on a high note. NOTE -Anonymous has also warned the Chinese government about launching any kind of war on Taiwan.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 8, 2021

Privacy advocates across the world say that such mass surveillance programs do more bad than good as they make the populace get a feeling that their government never trusts them. The post China using AI to develop robots that can hide in sea launch bombs and cyber attacks appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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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

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. after Ecuador withdrew asylum after seven years. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 5, 2021

Highly placed sources say that the attack was a large scale sophisticated attack that hit Belnet that offers internet services to many of the government agencies and private entities across the country in the Western Europe. The post DDoS Attack on Belgium Parliament and Universities appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 2, 2022

An overseas distributed denial of service attack aka Ddos targeted the website of Taiwan’s Presidential Office disrupting its normal operations for about 30-40 minutes. However, the IT staff of the government were quick enough to recover from the incident as they already had recovery measures in place, if/when such incidents occur.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Selectel, Netwarm UK, Beget, Timeweb and DDoS-Guard). The Russian government’s embrace of cryptocurrency was a remarkable pivot: Bloomberg notes that as recently as January 2022, just weeks before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the central bank proposed a blanket ban on the use and creation of cryptocurrencies.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 1, 2022

All these days we have been discussing Distributed Denial of Service attacks aka Ddos attacks and the massive amounts of fake traffic they create to network disruptions in corporate and government networks. But Yo-Yo DDoS Attack is different and seems to be an innovative way to attack public cloud infrastructures.

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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

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 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

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

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

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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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

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. In the last week, the pro-Russia group intensified its activity.

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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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