Heimadal Security

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The largest DDoS attack in the history of the Russian Internet was carried out on Yandex’ servers last weekend. Without providing additional details, a Yandex spokesman confirmed the attack for Russian publication Vedomosti: Yandex did indeed undergo a DDoS attack, which was reflected […].

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 12, 2023

StormWall , a premier cybersecurity firm specializing in the defense of websites, networks, and online services from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, has published an in-depth report on the DDoS landscape during the first quarter of 2023. of DDoS attacks targeting the application layer (L7), 11.7%

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

A Distributed Denial of Service(DDoS) attack was launched on Canada-based VOIP services provided named VoIP.ms, disrupting its phone calls and other of its web services. Here, VOIP was hit by a denial of service attack that blocked its customers from making telephone calls via internet. IT staff of VoIP.ms

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 9, 2023

A DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack is a common form of cyber attack that aims to disrupt the normal functioning of a network by overwhelming it with traffic. Detecting a DDoS Attack: The first step in responding to a DDoS attack is to detect it. Some common signs of a DDoS attack include: 1.)

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

A series of distributed denial of service ( DDoS ) attacks today briefly took down the websites of over a dozen U.S. See the DDoS Protection Service Providers. Killnet has been launching similar DDoS attacks for months, targeting everything from Romanian government websites to Lithuania’s Secure Data Transfer Network.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 21, 2022

Google has released a formal statement that it has one of the largest Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS) for one its customers, thus avoiding large scale disruption and downtime that could have lasted for days. “It The internet juggernaut added that the attack’s time frame lasted for about 69 minutes.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 25, 2023

A DDoS Attack is the bombardment of fake internet traffic onto an application server, thus disrupting its operations, leading to its unavailability to genuine traffic. The post New SLP Vulnerability to play catalyst to 2000x DDoS attacks appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2019

A couple of high-profile distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks will surely go down in history as watershed events – each for different reasons. Related: IoT botnets now available for economical DDoS blasts. DDoS attacks aren’t going to go away anytime soon. Beyond DDoS. A10 Networks’ report found 6.3

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Heimadal Security

JANUARY 25, 2023

The largest Russian ISP, Rostelecom, reports that DDoS attacks against Russian businesses hit an all-time high in 2022. This […] The post DDoS Attacks in 2022 Exceeded All Records, Says Russia’s Largest ISP appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2022

Microsoft in November fended off a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in its Azure cloud that officials said was the largest ever recorded, the latest in a wave of record attacks that washed over the IT industry in the second half of 2021. Also read: How to Stop DDoS Attacks: 6 Tips for Fighting DDoS Attacks.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 7, 2022

A Netscout Systems report concluded that the number of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks launched in the first half of this year exceeded six million. The Netscout report was based on statistics collected from internet service providers (ISPs) around the world.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2023

DoJ announced the seizure of 13 new domains associated with DDoS-for-hire platforms as part of Operation PowerOFF. Justice Department announced the seizure of 13 domains linked to DDoS-for-hire services as part of a coordinated international law enforcement effort known as Operation PowerOFF. com, ragebooter(.)com, com, downthem(.)org

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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.

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CSO Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

Cybersecurity is built to protect computer systems and networks from theft, damage, and service disruption from attacks such as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS). DDoS attacks work by taking a target website or online service offline by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of internet traffic.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 5, 2021

A distributed denial of service attack has reportedly disrupted the internet services connecting to most parts of Belgium shutting down the much needed web services to Parliament, Universities and some Scientific Institutes. The post DDoS Attack on Belgium Parliament and Universities appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 19, 2021

Researchers have disclosed a nasty new way for bad people to mess up the internet for the rest of us. The post Great Firewall Ready to Unleash ‘Gigantic’ DDoS—so are Other Middleboxes appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Heimadal Security

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Bandwidth.com is a VoIP services company that is providing voice telephony over the Internet to businesses and resellers. VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) is a technology that turns a human’s voice into an electrical signal, enabling calls from a computer, a VoIP phone, or other data-driven devices.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 22, 2021

Cybersecurity geeks may already know this historical tidbit… The first DDoS attack occurred back in 1999, when a computer at the University of Minnesota suddenly came under attack from a network of 114 other computers infected with a malicious script called Trin00.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

There are a lot : The cybersecurity company McAfee recently uncovered a cyber operation, dubbed Operation GoldDragon, attacking South Korean organizations related to the Winter Olympics. One presumes the Olympics network is sufficiently protected against the more pedestrian DDoS attacks and the like, but who knows?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The massive DDoS attack that has been targeting the internet giant Yandex was powered b a completely new botnet tracked as M?ris. The record magnitude of the massive DDoS attack was also confirmed by the US company Cloudflare, which specializes in the protection against such kinds of attacks. technique for DDoS attacks.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 3, 2022

A few of the Taiwan government's websites were targeted with DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks this week, during the same time that U.S. Security researchers consider DDoS attacks to be relatively minor compared to other types of cyberattacks, as they are easy to execute and don't leave too much lasting damage.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2021

A massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack shut down Belgiums’ government websites, internal networks were also impacted. A massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack hit most of the Belgium government ’s IT network, according to the media the attack also knocked offline internal systems. Around 7.30

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Cloudflare, a web performance and security company, revealed the news in its latest ‘DDoS Threat Report’ that included insights and trends that are being followed in the distributed denial of service attacks threat landscape in 2022. But as the threat detection service was automated, the response was on time and curated.

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Heimadal Security

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

For the last month, a new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet has been attacking the Russian internet company Yandex. ris Botnet Breaks DDoS Record appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. The attack peaked at an unparalleled rate of 21.8 million requests per second. The post M?ris

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 7, 2023

Mention the acronym DDoS to a web admin and they’ll likely break out in a cold sweat. DDoS, or Distributed Denial of Service attacks, are some of the most malicious and difficult-to-stop network attacks that can be launched against a website or any other DDoS-susceptible service, such as a SaaS platform.

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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. Upon installing the threat, the bot drops a file in /tmp/.pwned

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SecureBlitz

MARCH 11, 2021

This post will expose the top 5 DDoS attack challenges for Telecom companies. Today’s world runs on the Internet. The post Top 5 DDoS Attack Challenges For Telecom Companies appeared first on SecureBlitz Cybersecurity. Similarly to a cellular. Similarly to a cellular.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 28, 2022

Akamai, which offers one of the largest Content Delivery Networks in the whole of America, has disclosed that it has blocked the world’s largest DDoS attack that took place in a company operating in Eastern Europe. The post Akamai blocks worlds largest DDoS attacks in Europe appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2023

A flaw in the Service Location Protocol (SLP), tracked as CVE-2023-29552, can allow to carry out powerful DDoS attacks. impacting the Service Location Protocol ( SLP ) can be exploited by threat actors to conduct powerful volumetric DDoS attacks. A high-severity security vulnerability (CVE-2023-29552, CVSS score: 8.6)

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Heimadal Security

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As my colleague Cezarina explained in a previous article, a botnet is a network of infected computers or other internet-connected devices, that communicate with each other in order to perform the same malicious actions. The post DDoS Operator Arrested by the Ukrainian Police appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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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. ” Norway’s National Security Authority also issued instructions to local organizations for the mitigation of DDoS attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 28, 2023

In today’s digital landscape, cybersecurity has become a critical concern for individuals and organizations alike. Aspiring cybersecurity researchers often wonder where to start and what areas to explore. By focusing on these areas, newcomers can gain a solid foundation and understanding of cybersecurity principles and practices.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

A distributed denial of service attack has targeted Yandex, an internet company based in Russia. Cybersecurity Insiders learnt from its sources that the IT infrastructure of multinational corporation Yandex witnessed a peak in the Denial of service attack, shortly known as DDoS attack on September 5th,2021, i.e. on teachers’ day this year.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 18, 2023

In today’s digital age, profit-making organizations across industries are increasingly reliant on technology and the internet to conduct their operations. While this technological advancement brings numerous benefits, it also exposes businesses to various cybersecurity risks.

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CSO Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Companies that do business on the internet or use network connections in any way, shape, or form are vulnerable to cyberattack. million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in the first half of 2021. And let’s face it, that includes pretty much everyone these days. To read this article in full, please click here

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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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SecureList

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Every year, Kaspersky experts prepare forecasts for different industries, helping them to build a strong defense against any cybersecurity threats they might face in the foreseeable future. While supply-chain is a big challenge for business right now, its cybersecurity is not merely an issue, it’s a major problem.

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