The Greek government announced that a DDoS cyber attack hit the official state websites of the prime minister, the national police and fire service and several important ministries. Yesterday the Greek government announced that the official websites of the prime minister, the national police and fire service and several important ministries were hit by a […]
China is accused to have used the “Great Cannon” DDoS tool to launch attacks against LIHKG, a forum used by Hong Kong residents to organize protests. The Great Cannon Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) tool was used again by the Chinese government, this time it was used to target the LIHKG forum used by Hong Kong protesters to […]
Sergiy P. , the administrator of DDoS-for-hire services was sentenced to 13 months in prison, and additional three years of supervised release. Sergiy P. Usatyuk, a man that was operating several DDoS-for-hire services was sentenced to 13 months in prison, and additional three years of supervised release. DDoS-for-hire services, aka stressers or booters, allows crooks […]
This week Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a major distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that made it unavailable for some customers. This week, threat actors launched a massive DDoS attack against Amazon Web Services (AWS) causing the inability of some customers to access their AWS S3 buckets. Users were intermittently unable to access online services relying […]
Dutch police seized a bulletproof hosting service in a major takedown, the infrastructure was used by tens of IoT botnets involved in DDoS attacks. A joint operation conducted by the Netherlands’ National Criminal Investigation Department and National Cyber Security Center allowed to track down and seize five servers that were composing a cybercrime underground bulletproof […]
The popular free online encyclopedia Wikipedia was not reachable following what it has described as a “malicious attack”. Popular online reference website Wikipedia went down in several countries after the server of the Wikimedia Foundation that host it were hit by a “massive” Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. The news of intermittent outages was […]
Researchers at Imperva revealed that an undisclosed streaming service was hit by a massive DDoS attack that stopped it for 13 days. An undisclosed streaming service was hit by a 13‑day DDoS massive attack powered by a Mirai botnet composed of 402,000 IoT devices. Imperva confirmed that its systems were able to repel the attack […]
Austin Thompson (23) from Utah, the hacker who carried out massive DDoS attacks on Sony, EA, and Steam gets a 27-months prison sentence. The hacker who brought offline with massive DDoS attacks online gaming networks between December 2013 and January 2014 has been sentenced to 27 months in prison. Austin Thompson (23) from Utah hit […]
Belgium police have identified a member of the Anonymous Belgium collective while investigating an arson case at a local bank. The Anonymous member is a 35-year-old man from Roeselare, Belgium, was arrested after throwing a Molotov cocktail at the Crelan Bank office in Rumbeke, back in 2014. According to ZDnet, the hacker has been exposed […]
Cybercriminals are attempting to exploit an API misconfiguration in Docker containers to infiltrate them and run the Linux bot AESDDoS. Hackers are attempting to exploit an API misconfiguration in the open-source version of the popular DevOps tool Docker Engine-Community to infiltrate containers and run the Linux bot AESDDoS (Backdoor.Linux.DOFLOO.AA). Threat actors are actively scanning the Internet for exposed […]