Q2 2023 saw an unprecedented escalation in DDoS attack sophistication. Pro-Russian hacktivists REvil, Killnet and Anonymous Sudan joined forces to attack Western sites. Mitel vulnerability exploits surged by a whopping 532%, and attacks on crypto rocketed up by 600%. Read the full story...
FortiGuard Labs encountered recent samples of a DDoS-as-a-service botnet calling itself Condi. It attempted to spread by exploiting TP-Link Archer AX21 (AX1800) routers vulnerable to CVE-2023-1389, which was disclosed in mid-March of this year. Read more.
Microsoft says the early June disruptions to its Microsoft’s flagship office suite — including the Outlook email apps — were denial-of-service attacks by a shadowy new hacktivist group. In a blog post published Friday evening after The Associated Press sought clarification on the sporadic but serious outages, Microsoft confirmed that that they were DDoS attacks by a group calling itself Anonymous Sudan, which some security researchers believe is Russia-affiliated. The software giant offered few details on the attack. It did not comment on how many customers were affected.
La guerre s’est invitée dans le cyberespace suisse avec fracas cette semaine, le groupe de hackers NoName visant des dizaines de cibles. Il faudra mieux se préparer face à des attaques qui pourraient s’intensifier, avertissent trois experts
Déferlante d’attaques DDoS en Suisse revendiquées par des hacktivistes pro-russes
The Swiss government is under DDoS attacks, but several ransomware gangs have also turned their sights on other Swiss organizations.
Lundi 12 juin 2023, plusieurs sites Internet de la Confédération étaient ou sont encore inaccessibles, en raison d’une attaque DDoS menée contre ses systèmes. Celle-ci a été rapidement détectée par les spécialistes de l’administration fédérale, qui travaillent actuellement à rétablir dans les plus brefs délais l’accès aux applications et sites Internet touchés.
L’entité «NoName» a pris pour cible des sites officiels de l’administration, comme FedPol, lundi matin lors d’une cyberattaque.
Revendiquée par un cyberpirate dénommé Anonymous Sudan, une série d'attaques a paralysé pendant plusieurs jours de multiples services cloud de Microsoft dont Outlook, SharePoint et OneDrive. Les difficultés de l'éditeur à assurer une remise en service complète dans ce laps de temps interroge.
Une cyberattaque paralyse en partie le site www.parlament.ch, une agression peut-être en lien avec la prochaine prise de parole du président ukrainien.
For a decade, a group called Big Pipes has worked behind the scenes with the FBI to target the worst cybercriminal “booter” services plaguing the internet.
WHEN THE FBI announced the takedown of 13 cyberattack-for-hire services yesterday, it may have seemed like just another day in law enforcement’s cat-and-mouse game with a criminal industry that has long plagued the internet’s infrastructure, bombarding victims with relentless waves of junk internet traffic to knock them offline. In fact, it was the latest win for a discreet group of detectives that has quietly worked behind the scenes for nearly a decade with the goal of ending that plague for good.
Authorities in Germany this week seized Internet servers that powered FlyHosting, a dark web service that catered to cybercriminals operating DDoS-for-hire services. Fly Hosting first advertised on cybercrime forums in November 2022, saying it was a Germany-based hosting firm that…
The National Crime Agency has today revealed that it has infiltrated the online criminal marketplace by setting up a number of sites purporting to offer DDoS-for-hire services.
Today’s announcement comes after the Agency chose to identify one of the sites currently being run by officers as part of a sustained programme of activity to disrupt and undermine DDoS as a criminal service.
A series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks shut down seven German airports' websites on Thursday, a day after a major IT glitch at Lufthansa grounded flights.
This was a weekend of record-breaking DDoS DDoS. Over the weekend, Cloudflare detected and mitigated dozens of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks. The majority of attacks peaked in the ballpark of 50-70 million requests per second (rps) with the largest exceeding 71 million rps. This is the largest reported HTTP DDoS attack on record, more than 35% higher than the previous reported record of 46M rps in June 2022.
The Killnet hacktivist group is actively targeting the health sector with DDoS attacks, claiming to have successfully exfiltrated data from a number of hospitals within the last month, according to a Department of Health and Human Services Cybersecurity Coordination Center alert.
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks by pro-Russian hacking groups are causing alarm in the U.S. and Denmark after several incidents affected websites of hospitals and government offices in both countries.
On Tuesday, Denmark announced that it was raising its cyber risk alert level after weeks of attacks on banks and the country’s defense ministry.
As part of our research into the cryptomining botnet kmsdbot, we rendered it useless.
Known as Operation Power Off, this operation saw law enforcement in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Poland and Germany take action against these types of attacks which can paralyse the internet. The services seized were by far the most popular DDoS booter services on the market, receiving top billing on search engines. One such service taken...
FortiGuard Labs provides an analysis on RapperBot focusing on comparing samples for different campaigns, including one aiming to launch Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Read our blog to learn more about the differences observed in this campaign vs previous RapperBot and similar campaigns in the past.
