DDoS

Pierluigi Paganini October 03, 2017
Imperva Report Q2 2017- Over 75% of DDoS targets were hit multiple times

According to Imperva DDoS report, over 75% of targets were hit multiple times in Q2 2017, while the percentage was only 43.2% in the same period of 2016. Imperva published the Global DDoS Threat Landscape for Q2 2017, the report shows an increase in the amount of persistent application layer DDoS attack over a one-year period. According to Imperva, over […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 03, 2017
Google removed almost 300 Android apps involved in DDoS attack

Google removed almost 300 Android apps from the official Play Store after expert at ESET reported they were abused for a DDoS attack. This week Google has removed at least 300 apps from the Official Play Store after learning that apps were being hijacked to power DDoS attacks. “We identified approximately 300 apps associated with […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 14, 2017
OpDomesticTerrorism – Anonymous takes down Charlottesville website after the incident

Anonymous launched the OpDomesticTerrorism and claimed responsibility for carrying out a DDoS attack on the website of Charlottesville city Virginia. The hacktivist collective Anonymous launched the OpDomesticTerrorism and claimed responsibility for carrying out a DDoS attack on the official website of Charlottesville city Virginia. The website went offline under the prolonged attack that was powered in the wake […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 23, 2017
Hacker BestBuy pleads guilty to hijacking more than 900k Deutsche Telekom routers

The hacker BestBuy pleaded guilty in court on Friday to hijacking more than 900,000 routers from the network of Deutsche Telekom The notorious hacker BestBuy, also known as Popopret, pleaded guilty in court on Friday to hijacking more than 900,000 routers from the network of Deutsche Telekom. The 29-year-old man, whom name wasn’t revealed by authorities. used a custom version of […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 20, 2017
DDoS Tools availability Online, a worrisome trend

Experts warn of an increased availability of DDoS tools online, many wannabe hackers download and use them without awareness on consequences. As cyber crime reaches new levels with new malware & viruses being realized online on a daily basis it also becomes apparent that the increase in DDoS tools that require no apparent skills to […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 07, 2017
Russia-linked hacker group APT28 continues to target Montenegro

Once again, Montenegro was targeted by the Russia-linked hacker group APT28, according to the experts it is just the beginning. On June 5 Montenegro officially joined NATO alliance despite the strong opposition from Russian Government that threatened to retaliate. Cybersecurity experts believe that a new wave of attacks from the cyberspace will hit the state. In February, for […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2017
Alleged Russian state-sponsored hackers behind Baltic energy networks

A wave of cyber attacks against the Baltic energy networks raised concerns that foreign states could disable them in the region. A wave of “exploratory” cyber attacks targeted energy networks of the Baltic states, the NATO alliance is following with apprehension the events. Baltic attacks raised concerns that foreign states could disable the energy networks in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 26, 2017
Cybercrime – Interpol shutdown nearly 9,000 C&C servers in Asia hacked with a WordPress plug exploit

The Interpol located and shut down nearly 9,000 Command and control servers located in Asia and hacked with a WordPress plug-in exploit. An investigation conducted by the Interpol resulted in the identification of nearly 9,000 command and control servers located in Asia. The law enforcement body operated with the support of private partners, including Kaspersky Lab, Cyber Defense Institute, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2017
Hacking Smart TVs remotely leveraging broadcasting signals

A security expert demonstrated how to hack SmartTV using a low-cost transmitter for embedding malicious commands into a rogue DVB-T signals. The number of IoT devices continues to grow, but unfortunately, their level of security is often very poor and at the same time the number of threats to smart objects is rapidly increasing. Due to security […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2017
Imperva observed a new variant of the Mirai botnet unleashes 54-Hour DDoS attack

According to security experts at Imperva, a newly discovered variant of the Mirai botnet was used to power a 54-hour DDoS attack. According to security experts at Imperva, a newly discovered variant of the dreaded Mirai botnet was used to power a 54-hour distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The new variant of the Mirai […]