DDoS

Pierluigi Paganini June 28, 2018
Apophis Squad hacker group is the alleged responsible for the DDoS attack against ProtonMail

A massive DDoS attack hit encrypted email provider ProtonMail, experts believe it was powered by Russian hackers. On Wednesday morning, ProtonMail informed customers that its systems were under attack that was causing a delay in the delivery of the messages. Our network is under attack again. No data is breached or lost, but emails will be […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 18, 2018
A New Mexico man sentenced to 15 Years in jail for DDoS Attacks and possession of firearms

A New Mexico man admitted being responsible for DDoS attacks against the websites of former employers, business competitors, and public services. John Kelsey Gammell, 55, from New Mexico has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on dozens of organizations and for firearms-related charges. The man used popular ‘services of […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2018
Massive DDoS attack hit the Danish state rail operator DSB

The Danish state rail operator DSB was hit by a massive DDoS cyber attack that paralyzed some operations, including ticketing systems and the communication infrastructure. The Danish state rail operator DSB was hit by an unprecedented DDoS cyber attack, the attack was confirmed on Monday by the company and reported by The Local media outlet. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 25, 2018
Police shut down the biggest DDoS-for-hire service (webstresser.org) and arrested its administrators

The European police have shut down webstresser.org, the world’s biggest DDoS-for-hire service, that allowed crooks to launch over 4 million attacks. An international operation dubbed conducted by the European law enforcement agencies led by the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) and the Dutch Police, with the help of Europol, has taken down the world’s biggest DDoS-for-hire […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 13, 2018
Experts uncovered a proxy botnet composed of over 65,000 routers exposed via UPnP protocol

Security researchers at Akamai have discovered a proxy botnet composed of more than 65,000 routers exposed to the Internet via the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol. Crooks have compromised the devices of this multi-purpose proxy botnet to conduct a wide range of malicious activities, including spamming and phishing, click fraud, account takeover and credit card […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 07, 2018
New variant of the Mirai Botnet targets the financial industry

Early this year at least three European financial institutions were hit by DDoS attacks powered by a new variant of the Mirai botnet. A variant of the Mirai botnet, composed at lease of 13,000 compromised IoT devices was used to launch a series of DDoS attacks against financial sector businesses. The DDoS attacks peaked at up […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2018
Group-IB supported law enforcement in dismantling Ukrainian DDoS crime gang

Ukrainian Police supported by security firm Group-IB and other security firms dismantled a DDoS crime gang that blackmailed numerous companies worldwide. Another example of successful collaboration between law enforcement agencies and security firms in the fight against cybercrime, the case sees Ukrainian Police supported by security firm Group-IB and other security firms dismantling a DDoS […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2018
Corero Network discovered a Kill Switch for Memcached DDoS attacks

Corero network security discovers a “kill switch” for memcached DDoS attacks and also reveals memcached exploit can be used to steal or corrupt data Memcached DDoS attacks made the headlines due to the magnitude observed in recent offensives. While two PoC exploits for Memcached DDoS attacks have been released online, experts at security firm Corero Network announced […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 04, 2018
Recent Memcached DDoS attacks drive RDoS extortion practice

Crooks already started to blackmail companies asking for a ransom demand in Monero cryptocurrency to avoid being attacked via Memcached servers. Last week, the Github service was hit by the biggest-ever DDoS attack that peaked 1.35 Tbs by abusing the memcached protocol to power so-called memcached DDoS attacks. Researchers believe that threat actors in the wild will abuse misconfigured […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 02, 2018
Github hit by the biggest-ever DDoS attack that peaked 1.35 Tbs

On February 28, 2018, the popular GitHub’s code hosting website was hit by the largest-ever distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 1.35 Tbps On February 28, 2018, the popular GitHub’s code hosting website was hit by the largest-ever distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The DDoS attack peaked at record 1.35 Tbps […]