Explore the emergence of Gorilla Botnet, its DDoS tactics, global impact, and sophisticated evasion techniques.
Web performance and security firm Cloudflare recently mitigated another record-breaking DDoS attack.
According to Matthew Prince, the company’s CEO, the attack peaked at 3.8 terabits per second (Tbps) and 2.14 billion packets per second (Pps). The attack was aimed at an unidentified customer of an unnamed hosting provider that uses Cloudflare services.
Le système informatique du Canton tourne au ralenti depuis mardi, mais il n’y a aucun risque pour les données de l’État. L’attaque est toujours en cours.
On August 25th 2024, Global Secure Layer mitigated the largest packet rate DDoS attack recorded against our platform
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Ces dernières heures, plusieurs sites français disent avoir été visés par des attaques informatiques. A l’origine de ces actions : des petits groupes de hackeurs qui réclament la libération du patron de Telegram.
Swisscom a été visé vendredi vers 11h30 par une cyberattaque qui a paralysé les services de paiement comme Twint. L'attaque DDos a été repoussée vers 16h00. Les experts continuaient toutefois à observer attentivement l'évolution de la situation.
The total number of DDoS attacks during H1 2024 amounted to 830,000, an increase of 46% when compared to H1 2023, according to Gcore.
Radware found that Web DDoS attacks rose by 265% in H1 2024, driven by hacktivist groups amid rising geopolitical tensions
On July 15, 2024, Akamai prevented one of the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyberattacks it has ever observed against a major financial services company in Israel.
The highly sophisticated, high-volume attack lasted almost 24 hours.
The attacker deployed larger-than-usual resources, indicating a serious risk for future attacks.
Other Israeli financial institutions reportedly suffered outages and downtimes on the same day, potentially due to the same type of attack and the same aggressor.
o you have problems configuring Microsoft's Defender? You might not be alone: Microsoft admitted that whatever it's using for its defensive implementation exacerbated yesterday's Azure instability.
No one has blamed the actual product named "Windows Defender," we must note.
According to Microsoft, the initial trigger event for yesterday's outage, which took out great swathes of the web, was a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Such attacks are hardly unheard of, and an industry has sprung up around warding them off.
Microsoft confirmed today that a nine-hour outage on Tuesday, which took down and disrupted multiple Microsoft 365 and Azure services worldwide, was triggered by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
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In the wake of Spanish Authorities arresting three individuals associated with NoName057(16), the group declared a "holy war" on Spain. The call to arms encourages all pro-Russian hacker groups to join under the hashtag #FuckGuardiaCivil. Over the past two days, NETSCOUT observed a significant increase in claimed attacks on Spanish websites, coinciding with the call to arms in retaliation for the arrests made. Despite the surge in hacktivist targeting and claims of victory, the daily DDoS attacks manifest as a normal day for Spanish network operators.
Spanish police arrested three suspected members of the pro-Russian hacker group NoName057(16), known for carrying out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Ukraine’s allies.
The U.K.'s National Crime Agency said it disrupted DigitalStress, a DDoS-for-hire operation that has been “responsible for tens of thousands of attacks every week across the globe.”
A sharp increase of DDoS attacks have been observed since the beginning of 2023. A new trend is to send high packet rate attacks though. This article introduces the findings of our teams in order to bring new insights regarding this threat.
The «Cyber Army of Russia» (or “people’s Cyber Army”), published their own DDoS-Tool on Wednesday (2023–11–29). According to their post, it is based on the code of the Aura-DDoS tool (used by the…
International law enforcement authorities have shut down a DDoS-as-a-service platform and seized its domain.
2024 started with a bang. Cloudflare’s autonomous systems mitigated over 4.5 million DDoS attacks in the first quarter of the year — a 50% increase compared to the previous year.
