Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Operation PowerOFF took down 27 DDoS stresser services globally, disrupting illegal platforms used for launching cyberattacks. “Law enforcement agencies worldwide have disrupted a holiday tradition for cybercriminals: launching Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks to take websites offline. .

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

German police shut down DDoS-for-hire platform Dstat.cc and arrested two men accused of operating the site used for launching DDoS attacks. German police shut down the DDoS-for-hire platform Dstat.cc that allowed its customers to launch DDoS attacks. Police seized both Dstat.cc

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Department of Justice (DOJ) today seized four-dozen domains that sold “booter” or “stresser” services — businesses that make it easy and cheap for even non-technical users to launch powerful Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks designed knock targets offline. The DOJ also charged six U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

11, 2025, CyberNewswire — Gcore , the global edge AI, cloud, network, and security solutions provider, today announced the findings of its Q3-Q4 2024 Radar report into DDoS attack trends. DDoS attacks have reached unprecedented scale and disruption in 2024, and businesses need to act fast to protect themselves from this evolving threat.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

man charged in 2018 with operating two online services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Internet users and websites. with operating two DDoS-for-hire or “booter” services — downthem[.]org Charles, Ill. The user interface for Downthem[.]org.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 28, 2023

The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has been busy setting up phony DDoS-for-hire websites that seek to collect information on users, remind them that launching DDoS attacks is illegal, and generally increase the level of paranoia for people looking to hire such services. In mid-December 2022, the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 7, 2020

The co-owners of vDOS , a now-defunct service that for four years helped paying customers launch more than two million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that knocked countless Internet users and websites offline, each have been sentenced to six months of community service by an Israeli court. vDOS as it existed on Sept.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 1, 2020

and United Kingdom, running a service that launched distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and for possessing sexually explicit images of minors. The Justice Department says Vaughn and his gang ran a DDoS-for-hire service that they used to shake down victims. The DDoS-for-hire service run by Apophis Squad listed their members.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 17, 2025

The latest Link11 European Cyber Report shows an alarming trend: the number of DDoS attacks has more than doubled, and they are shorter, more targeted, and more technically sophisticated. DDoS attacks surge 137% more DDoS attacks on the Link11 network compared to last year.

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Penetration Testing

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Aqua Nautilus researchers have uncovered a major Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) campaign led by a threat actor operating under the name Matrix.

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Zero Day

JUNE 27, 2025

PT oxygen/Getty Cloudflare  is a robust content delivery network (CDN) that specializes in providing protection against  distributed denial of service (DDoS)  attacks. Last month, Cloudflare  blocked the largest DDoS attack in internet history.  million DDoS attacks. terabits per second (Tbps).

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 9, 2025

9, 2025, CyberNewswire — Gcore , the global edge AI, cloud, network, and security solutions provider, has launched Super Transit, a cutting-edge DDoS protection and acceleration feature, designed to safeguard enterprise infrastructure while delivering lightning-fast connectivity. Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Apr.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 10, 2024

A non-profit that benefits millions of people has fallen victim to a data breach and a DDoS attack. To pile more grief onto the breach, a “ hacktivist ” group calling themselves SN_BLACKMETA has launched several DDoS attacks against Internet Archive’s website archive.org for all the wrong reasons.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

million smart toothbrushes were hacked and used in a DDoS attack is false. The widely reported story last week that 1.5 Near as I can tell, a German reporter talking to someone at Fortinet got it wrong , and then everyone else ran with it without reading the German text. It was a hypothetical, which Fortinet eventually confirmed.

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Penetration Testing

JUNE 22, 2025

RapperBot botnet resurfaces with 50,000+ active bots, now demanding Monero extortion to halt DDoS attacks. The self-proclaimed "rapper" malware targets IoT devices globally.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 7, 2024

CLoudflare just blocked the current record DDoS attack: 3.8 Lots of good information on the attack, and DDoS in general, at the link.) terabits per second. News article.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 9, 2023

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week seized 13 domain names connected to “ booter ” services that let paying customers launch crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Ten of the domains are reincarnations of DDoS-for-hire services the FBI seized in December 2022, when it charged six U.S.

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Heimadal Security

JUNE 26, 2025

Top cybersecurity news between 20th and 26th June talks about Qilin ransomware’s new tricks, a DHS advisory on Iran-supported threat actors, a healthcare facilities’ data breach impact, and a new record for DDoS attacks.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2025

An origin server DDoS attack (sometimes referred to as direct-to-origin attack) is a technique used to bypass cloud-based DDoS protections – such as CDNs and WAFs – by targeting the origin server environment directly.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2025

Polish police arrested 4 people behind DDoS-for-hire platforms used in global attacks, offering takedowns for as little as 10 via six stresser services. “ Stresser/booter services are online platforms that offer Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks as a paid service. .“ Europol, the U.S.,

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Schneier on Security

MAY 5, 2022

Cloudflare is reporting a large DDoS attack against an unnamed company “operating a crypto launchpad.” HTTPS DDoS attacks are more expensive in terms of required computational resources because of the higher cost of establishing a secure TLS encrypted connection.

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Penetration Testing

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Law enforcement worldwide has delivered a significant blow to cybercriminals with Operation PowerOFF, an international effort led by Europol to dismantle Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)-for-hire platforms.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 12, 2025

The post No, Elon X DDoS was NOT by Ukraine appeared first on Security Boulevard. X marks the botnet: Outage outrage was a Ukrainian cyberattack, implies our favorite African billionaire comedy villain.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 3, 2023

“However, after users register, rather than being given access to cyber crime tools, their data is collated by investigators,” reads an NCA advisory on the program. “Users based in the UK will be contacted by the National Crime Agency or police and warned about engaging in cyber crime.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2025

terabit-per-second (Tbps) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Terabit per second (Tbps) DDoS attack, which is the largest attack ever reported. The previous largest DDoS attack blocked by Cloudflare occurred in October 2024 and peaked at 3.8 Cloudflare announced that it has blocked a record-breaking 5.6

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 6, 2023

Two Russia-associated groups hit Israel and Finland with DDoS attacks, this week. The post DDoS attacks rise as pro-Russia groups attack Finland, Israel appeared first on TechRepublic. Cybersecurity experts say the actions represent a marked increase in exploits and a harbinger of cyberattacks to come.

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Tech Republic Security

MARCH 24, 2022

The post Nokia: Botnet DDoS attacks are on the rise appeared first on TechRepublic. A study from Nokia outlining the growing number of botnet attacks shows a larger amount of sophistication by hackers.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 3, 2024

Businesses today need protection from increasingly frequent and sophisticated DDoS attacks. Related: The care and feeding of DDoS defenses But to protect their networks, they’ll need to enable accurate attack detection while keeping operations manageable and efficient. A DDoS attack, on the other hand, is distinctly bad news.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 5, 2025

The massive Eleven11bot has compromised more than 86,000 IoT devices, including security cameras and network video recorders, to launch hundreds of DDoS attacks, and security researchers say the threat actors behind the botnet are trying to grow it even more.

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Penetration Testing

JUNE 22, 2025

Tbps DDoS attack in May 2025, delivering 37.4 Cloudflare successfully mitigated a record-breaking 7.3 TB in 45 seconds with no service disruption.

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Tech Republic Security

JUNE 13, 2023

The assumptions a business shouldn’t make about its DDoS defenses and the steps it should take now to reduce its likelihood of attack. The post DDoS threats and defense: How certain assumptions can lead to an attack appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Experts see the latest DDoS attacks against Israel as a case study in the effectiveness of simple, brute-force cybersecurity attacks, even against the most sophisticated targets. The post New DDoS attacks on Israel’s enterprises should be a wake-up call appeared first on TechRepublic.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 25, 2022

Having spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, threats such as malware, ransomware, and DDoS attacks continue to accelerate. A10’s security research team recorded a significant spike in the number of potential DDoS weapons available for exploitation in 2021 and early 2022. Related: Apple tools abuse widespread. Key findings follow.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 17, 2024

From ZDNet : However, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks continue to be cybercriminals’ weapon of choice, making up over 37% of all mitigated traffic. million unique DDoS attacks. That total is nearly a third of all the DDoS attacks they mitigated the previous year. The scale of these attacks is staggering.

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Lohrman on Security

AUGUST 21, 2022

2022 has brought a surge in distributed denial-of-service attacks as well as a dramatic rise in patriotic hacktivism. What’s ahead for these trends as the year continues?

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Penetration Testing

JULY 4, 2025

FortiGuard Labs exposes RondoDox, a stealthy botnet exploiting critical flaws (CVE-2024-3721, CVE-2024-12856) in TBK DVRs & Four-Faith routers to launch sophisticated DDoS attacks.

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Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A vulnerability in the HTTP/2 network protocol is currently being exploited, resulting in the largest DDoS attack in history. Find out what security teams should do now, and hear what Cloudflare's CEO has to say about this DDoS.

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