DDoS

DDoS Attack on Amazon Web Services caused intermittently outage

This week Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a major distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that made it unavailable for some customers.…

5 years ago

Dutch police shut down bulletproof service hosting tens of DDoS botnets

Dutch police seized a bulletproof hosting service in a major takedown, the infrastructure was used by tens of IoT botnets…

5 years ago

Wikipedia suffered intermittent outages as a result of a malicious attack

The popular free online encyclopedia Wikipedia was not reachable following what it has described as a "malicious attack". Popular online…

5 years ago

Imperva blocked the largest Layer 7 DDoS attack it has ever seen

Researchers at Imperva revealed that an undisclosed streaming service was hit by a massive DDoS attack that stopped it for…

5 years ago

Hacker who disrupted Sony gaming gets a 27-months jail sentence

Austin Thompson (23) from Utah, the hacker who carried out massive DDoS attacks on Sony, EA, and Steam gets a…

5 years ago

Anonymous Belgium hacker identified after dropping USB drive while throwing Molotov cocktail

Belgium police have identified a member of the Anonymous Belgium collective while investigating an arson case at a local bank.…

5 years ago

Crooks exploit exposed Docker APIs to build AESDDoS botnet

Cybercriminals are attempting to exploit an API misconfiguration in Docker containers to infiltrate them and run the Linux bot AESDDoS.…

5 years ago

Massive DDos attack hit Telegram, company says most of junk traffic is from China

Encrypted messaging service Telegram was hit by a major DDoS attack apparently originated from China, likely linked to the ongoing…

5 years ago

AESDDoS bot exploits CVE-2019-3396 flaw to hit Atlassian Confluence Server

A new variant of the AESDDoS bot is exploiting a recent vulnerability in the Atlassian collaborative software Confluence. Security experts…

5 years ago

Ecuador suffered 40 Million Cyber attacks after the Julian Assange arrest

Ecuador suffered 40 million cyber attacks on websites of public institutions since the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Last…

5 years ago

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