Malwarebytes

MARCH 10, 2025

Twitter has been taken offline by Dark Storm Team read one message on the messaging and social media platform Telegram. These attacks, called Distributed Denial of Service or DDoS, attacks, are one of the most common form of cyberattacks online, and have been used to disrupt major companies online services.

DDOS

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 11, 2024

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Cryptocurrency

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.

DDOS

The Last Watchdog

APRIL 30, 2025

The new Link11 WAAP (Web Application and API Protection) SaaS platform combines comprehensive DDoS protection against web attacks with ML-based adaptive security and API protection. The patented DDoS filter secures all traffic within the Link11 cloud faster and more efficiently than conventional solutions.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 19, 2025

The digital defacement was brief but symbolically powerful, undermining state control of official media during a period of heightened national tension. cyber advisories warn of spillover On the same day, major U.S. Update detection rules for wipers, destructive malware, and insider reconnaissance.

Internet

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.

Data breaches

IT Security Guru

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attacks: These disrupt services, causing significant downtime for governments and industries. With the use of social media and encrypted communication channels, terrorist organizations have expanded their reach, recruiting members and coordinating attacks globally.

Technology

The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2025

SAN FRANCISCO The cybersecurity industry showed up here in force last week: 44,000 attendees, 730 speakers, 650 exhibitors and 400 members of the media flooding Moscone Convention Center in the City by the Bay. On defense, A10 has begun tapping GenAI to analyze DDoS telemetry in real time, dramatically reducing time-to-insight.

Engineering

BH Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and ransomware dominated, making up for more than half the observed incidents. 404 Media reported that Microsoft had quietly rolled out this feature before updating its terms of service. Those are the seven threats ENISA enumerates in its latest Threat Landscape 2024 report.

Social Engineering

Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2025

Hundreds of group supporters were warned about their legal liability for aiding the group’s DDoS attacks, often driven by pro-Russian ideology. The pro-Russian hacker group NoName057(16) has ramped up DDoS attacks against countries supporting Ukraine, many of them NATO members.

DDOS

Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2025

Authorities Seize $31 Million Related to Uranium Finance Hack 10 Ways Cybercrime Impacts Business Infostealer Campaign against ISPs Nigerian Man Extradited to the United States to Face Computer Intrusion and Theft Charges Russian crypto exchange Garantex seized by law enforcement operation Employee at Multinational DVD Company Charged with Stealing, (..)

Data breaches

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The Jerusalem Post reported that thousands of credit card readers across at gas stations and supermarket chains in Israel stopped working on Sunday morning following an alleged DDoS attack that hit the company responsible for the operations of the devices. ” reads the article published by The Jerusalem Post.

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Penetration Testing

JUNE 9, 2025

These domains resolved to the same IP addresses as other confirmed attacker infrastructure, suggesting coordinated management: “ Domain registration data for sentinelxdr[.]us us was updated on 25 September 2024, the same date and time as updates to trendav[.]vip—demonstrating vip—demonstrating synchronized infrastructure activity. ”

Penetration Testing

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

CISA adds PTZOptics camera bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Canadian authorities arrested alleged Snowflake hacker Android flaw CVE-2024-43093 may be under limited, targeted exploitation July 2024 ransomware attack on the City of Columbus impacted 500,000 people Nigerian man Sentenced to 26+ years in real estate phishing scams Russian (..)

Cybercrime

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 25, 2025

One of the earliest incidents involved Truth Social, Trump’s social media platform, which went offline Saturday night following a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack. President Donald Trump announced airstrikes on three key Iranian nuclear sites, a wave of cyber activity linked to pro-Iranian groups began to surface.

Cyber threats

Zero Day

JULY 29, 2025

Its robust features, like encryption, greatly help to avoid ISP throttling and DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks, both of which can cause game stuttering while playing online. The differentiation saves you from  manually testing servers to find one that works better with streaming.

VPN

Penetration Testing

JUNE 28, 2025

Freelancers & Social Media Managers Managing several LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook client accounts? Who Uses Temporary Numbers to Bypass OTP? The temporary numbers allow for fast and secure onboarding of new accounts.

Accountability

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Stanley, 33, had a brush with celebrity on Twitter in 2015 when he leaked the user database for the DDoS-for-hire service LizardStresser , and soon faced threats of physical violence against his family. My 2015 story on that leak did not name Stanley, but he exposed himself as the source by posting a video about it on his Youtube channel.

Consumer Protection

Krebs on Security

MARCH 19, 2025

As first reported here last month, Stanley had a brush with celebrity on Twitter in 2015 when he leaked the user database for the DDoS-for-hire service LizardStresser , and soon faced threats of physical violence against his family. “Teslers”) on the White House lawn last week. and overseas and driving down Tesla sales.

Government

Zero Day

JUNE 13, 2025

Reverse proxies : Often used to thwart distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, reverse proxies act as a line of defense and a barrier between clients and end systems. Public proxies : Proxies opened up for public use. These types of proxies are often free.

VPN

Penetration Testing

JUNE 18, 2025

Whether audiences will continue to favor the originality of human creators or embrace the convenience and spectacle of synthetic media remains to be seen. Google Unveils Flow, Veo 3, Imagen 4: New Era of AI Media Creation Hacker announced to break the Nintendo’s Switch firmware, it will be released this summer Google Unveils $249.99/Month

Artificial Intelligence

Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2023

Authorities in Germany this week seized Internet servers that powered FlyHosting , a dark web offering that catered to cybercriminals operating DDoS-for-hire services, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. “Police says: They support ddos attacks, C&C/C2 and stresser a bit too much. A seizure notice left on the FlyHosting domains. .

DDOS

Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

All users of Plex Media Server are urged to apply the hotfix, which directs their servers to respond to UDP requests only from the local network and not the public internet.

Media

Bleeping Computer

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Plex Media Server systems are actively being abused by DDoS-for-hire services as a UDP reflection/amplification vector in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. [.].

DDOS

Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Attackers are taking advantage of a security flaw in the way Plex Media servers look for compatible media devices and streaming clients, says Netscout.

Media

Graham Cluley

JULY 21, 2025

The hacking group NoName057(16) has been operating since 2022, launching cyber attacks on government organisations, media bodies, critical infrastructure, and private companies in Ukraine, America, Canada, and across Europe in a seeming attempt to silence voices that the group considers anti-Russian.

Cybercrime

The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

A new distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) vector has ensnared Plex Media Server systems to amplify malicious traffic against targets to take them offline.

DDOS

SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Netscout is reporting a spate of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks leveraging a problematic engineering decision in the popular Plex media server. ” Plex allows users to access media from one device on other devices. The post DDoS attacks leverages Plex media server appeared first on SC Media.

DDOS

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Netscout experts warn of DDoS-for-hire services abusing Plex Media servers to bounce junk traffic and amplify DDoS attacks. Security researchers from Netscout discovered DDoS-for-hire services have found a way to abuse Plex Media servers to bounce junk traffic and amplify distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

DDOS

Zero Day

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Cyber-security firm Netscout warns of new DDoS attack vector.

DDOS

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

One of many tweets from the attention-starved Apophis Squad, which launched multiple DDoS attacks against KrebsOnsecurity and Protonmail over the past few months. ” The DDoS-for-hire service run by Apophis Squad listed their members. to San Francisco last month. Duke-Cohan — a.k.a.

DDOS

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. Pierluigi Paganini.

DDOS

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Several media reported that three million electric toothbrushes were compromised and recruited into a DDoS botnet. The Swiss newspaper Aargauer Zeitung first published the news of a DDoS attack, carried out on January 30, that involved three million compromised electric toothbrushes. Is it true?

DDOS

Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2021

The REvil ransomware operators are using DDoS attacks and voice calls to journalists and victim’s business partners to force victims to pay the ransom. Malware #Ransomware #REvil REvil Ransomware launched a service for contact to news media, companies for the best pressure at no cost, and DDoS (L3, L7) as a paid service.

DDOS

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The Russian internet service provider Yandex is under a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that began last week. 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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, DDoS).

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 14, 2022

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks can cripple an organization, a network, or even an entire country, and they show no sign of slowing down. DDoS attacks may only make up a small percentage of security threats, but their consequences can be devastating. According to Imperva Research Labs, DDoS attacks tend to come in waves.

DDOS

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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