Tag: DDos attack

May 19, 2022

The cyber offensive against Ukraine continues with malware attacks and the spread of misinformation, according to security researchers. So far, Russian, pro-Russian, and Belarusian cyberattackers have employed the most comprehensive array of methods to achieve “tactical and strategic objectives, directly […]

September 9, 2019

A cyber-security incident that impacted a US power grid entity earlier this year was not as dangerous as initially thought, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) said last week. In a report highlighting the “lessons learned” from a past […]

April 25, 2017

The overall frequency of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks increased in 2016 thanks, in part, to Internet of Things botnets, according to information service provider Neustar. The company said it mitigated 40 percent more DDoS attacks from January through […]

April 6, 2017

Cisco warned of a variety of vulnerabilities – from letting attackers issue DDOS attack to making devices unexpectedly reload — in some of its wireless access point and LAN gear. The only critical alert came for vulnerability in Cisco Wave […]

November 9, 2016

Distributed denial-of-service attacks like the one that recently hit internet infrastructure company Dyn are effective because internet service providers don’t have a legal framework to block apparently legitimate traffic overloads, experts say. Robert Mayer, vice president of industry and state […]

October 31, 2016

An online hackers’ forum has deleted a section that allegedly offered paid distributed denial-of-service attacks, following last Friday’s massive internet disruption. HackForums.net will be shutting down the “Server Stress Testing” section, the site’s admin Jesse “Omniscient” LaBrocca said in a […]

October 28, 2016

It’s still unclear who pulled off Friday’s massive internet disruption, but the malware largely responsible for the cyber attack has since assaulted new targets — possibly including video gamers. Since last Friday, botnets created by the Mirai malware have been […]

October 27, 2016

Dyn says that the DDoS attack that swamped its DNS resolution service last week was backed by far fewer internet of things (IoT) devices than it thought before. Previously it said it was hit by traffic from tens of millions […]

October 24, 2016

A Chinese electronics component manufacturer says its products inadvertently played a role in a massive cyberattack that disrupted major internet sites in the U.S. on Friday. Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology, a vendor behind DVRs and internet-connected cameras, said on Sunday that […]

January 8, 2016

Last week’s distributed denial of service attack against the BBC website may have been the largest in history. A group calling itself New World Hacking said that the attack reached 602Gbps. If accurate, that would put it at almost twice […]