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.
Rubycarp has been in operation for at least a decade, and its campaigns appear to overlap with other cybercrime groups, according to researchers at Sysdig.
he year 2023 turned out to be quite rich in events and trends in the field of cybersecurity. We witnessed a new term "white noise", the development of artificial intelligence led to increased bot activity, which significantly affected commercial companies. We detected signs of a resurgence in popularity of commercial DDoS attacks. The implementation of "remote office" technologies led to the expansion of communication channels and, as a result, increased intensity of attacks. But first things first.
DDoS Attacks by Vectors
The fourth quarter of the past year didn't bring any surprises in terms of the distribution of mixed attacks by vectors. UDP flood once again topped the list with a rate of 60.20%. IP flood came in second at 16.86%. Multivector attacks also made it into the top three with 13.36%. Overall, the distribution was as follows:
UDP flood - 60.20%
SYN flood - 7.26%
IP flood - 16.86%
Multivector attacks - 13.36%
This joint guide, Understanding and Responding to Distributed Denial-Of-Service Attacks, addresses the specific needs and challenges faced by organizations in defending against DDoS attacks. The guidance now includes detailed insight into three different types of DDoS techniques:
Volumetric, attacks aiming to consume available bandwidth.
Protocol, attacks which exploit vulnerabilities in network protocols.
Application, attacks targeting vulnerabilities in specific applications or running services.
Si ces attaques, qui ont commencé dimanche soir, ont été d’une « intensité inédite », les services du premier ministre ont précisé lundi que leur impact avait été « réduit ». Elles ont été revendiquées par Anonymous Sudan, qui regroupe des militants prorusses.
NoName057(16) relies heavily on HTTPS application-layer DDoS attacks, with many attacks repeatedly sourced from the same attack harness, networks, and targeting similar countries and industries.
Over on SuspectFile, Marco A. De Felice reports that the NoEscape ransomware gang is threatening to release 1.5 TB of data from PruittHealth Network. De Felice...
Several websites of Belgian institutions (such as those of the Royal Palace, the Chancellery of the Prime Minister and the Senate) experienced some disruption late Thursday afternoon.
This post dives into the details of the HTTP/2 protocol, the feature that attackers exploited to generate the massive Rapid Reset attacks, and the mitigation strategies we took to ensure all our customers are protected
Every morning at roughly the same time, a Russian hacker group known as NoName057(16) carries out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on European financial institutions, government websites or transportation services.
