DDoS

Pierluigi Paganini April 21, 2023
Pro-Russia hackers launched a massive attack against the EUROCONTROL agency

Pro-Russia hackers KillNet launched a massive DDoS attack against Europe’s air-traffic agency EUROCONTROL. Europe’s air-traffic control agency EUROCONTROL announced that it was under attack from pro-Russian hackers. The European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation pointed out that the attack had no impact on European air traffic control activities. “Since 19 April, the EUROCONTROL […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 25, 2023
NCA infiltrates the cybercriminal underground with fake DDoS-for-hire sites

The U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA) revealed that it has set up a number of fake DDoS-for-hire sites to infiltrate the online criminal underground. The UK National Crime Agency announced it has infiltrated the online criminal marketplace by setting up several sites purporting to offer DDoS-for-hire services. DDoS-for-hire or ‘booter’ services allows registered users to […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 21, 2023
New ShellBot bot targets poorly managed Linux SSH Servers

New ShellBot DDoS bot malware, aka PerlBot, is targeting poorly managed Linux SSH servers, ASEC researchers warn. AhnLab Security Emergency response Center (ASEC) discovered a new variant of the ShellBot malware that was employed in a campaign that targets poorly managed Linux SSH servers. The ShellBot, also known as PerlBot, is a Perl-based DDoS bot that uses IRC […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 09, 2023
Akamai mitigated a record-breaking DDoS attack that peaked 900Gbps

Akamai has mitigated the largest DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack ever, which peaked at 900.1 gigabits per second. Akamai reported that on February 23, 2023, at 10:22 UTC, it mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever. The attack traffic peaked at 900.1 gigabits per second and 158.2 million packets per second. The record-breaking DDoS was launched against a […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2023
The Tor network hit by wave of DDoS attacks for at least 7 months

Tor Project maintainers revealed that for at least 7 months, the Tor network was hit by several different waves of ongoing DDoS attacks. During the last months Tor users have experienced Tor network performance issues lately, Tor Project maintainers explained that they were caused by different waves of ongoing DDoS attacks. Tor Project’s Executive Director […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2023
Cloudflare blocked record-breaking 71 million request-per-second DDoS attack

Cloudflare mitigated a record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) that reached 71 Million requests per second. Cloudflare announced it has mitigated a record hyper-volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at over 71 million requests per second (RPS). The company pointed out that this is the largest reported HTTP distributed denial-of-service attack on record, the volume was more […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 13, 2023
Pro-Russia hacker group Killnet targets NATO websites with DDoS attacks

Pro-Russia hacker group Killnet launched a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on NATO servers, including the NATO Special Operations Headquarters (NSHQ) website. Pro-Russia hacker group Killnet launched a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on NATO sites, including the NATO Special Operations Headquarters (NSHQ) website. The attack was confirmed by NATO, while the hacker […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 09, 2023
Experts published a list of proxy IPs used by the pro-Russia group Killnet

SecurityScorecard’s researchers released a list of proxy IPs used by the pro-Russia group Killnet to neutralize its attacks. SecurityScorecard’s researchers published a list of proxy IPs used by the pro-Russia group Killnet with the intent to interfere with its operation and block its attacks. “To help organizations better protect themselves, SecurityScorecard has published a list of […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 01, 2023
Pro-Russia Killnet group hit Dutch and European hospitals

The Dutch National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) confirmed that Pro-Russia group Killnet hit websites of national and European hospitals. The Dutch National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) reported that the websites of several hospital in the Netherlands and Europe were hit by DDoS attacks carried out by pro-Russia hacking group Killnet. The group of hackers launched […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 13, 2023
Pro-Russia group NoName057(16) targets Ukraine and NATO countries

A Pro-Russian group named NoName057(16) is targeting organizations in Ukraine and NATO countries with DDoS attacks. A Pro-Russian cybercrime group named NoName057(16) (aka 05716nnm or Nnm05716) is behind a wave of DDoS attacks against organizations in Ukraine and NATO countries, SentinelOne researchers reported. The attacks started in March 2022 and targeted government and critical infrastructure […]