Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2019
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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2019
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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 15, 2019
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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 13, 2019
Encrypted messaging service Telegram was hit by a major DDoS attack apparently originated from China, likely linked to the ongoing political unrest in Hong Kong. Telegram was used by protesters in Hong Kong to evade surveillance and coordinate their demonstrations against China that would allow extraditions from the country to the mainland. The country is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 28, 2019
A new variant of the AESDDoS bot is exploiting a recent vulnerability in the Atlassian collaborative software Confluence. Security experts at Trend Micro have spotted a new variant of AESDDoS botnet that is exploiting a recently discovered vulnerability in the Atlassian collaborative software Confluence. The flaw exploited in the attacks, tracked as CVE-2019-3396, is a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2019
Ecuador suffered 40 million cyber attacks on websites of public institutions since the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Last week, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. after Ecuador withdrew asylum after seven years. In response to the arrest acktivist communities launched several attacks against the Ecuador government. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 15, 2019
Experts at Imperva discovered a new type of large-scale DDoS attack that abuses the HTML5 Ping-based hyperlink auditing feature. Experts at Imperva Vitaly Simonovich and Dima Bekerman observed a large-scale DDoS attack abusing the HTML5 Ping-based hyperlink auditing feature. The DDoS attack peaked at a massive 7,500 requests per second and delivered more than 70 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 03, 2019
Sergiy P. Usatyuk (20), from Orland Park, Illinois pleaded guilty for owning, administrating, and supporting an illegal DDo-for-hire service. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the booting service operated by Sergiy P. Usatyuk (20) was used to carry out millions of distributed denial of service attacks. Usatyuk developed and operated other DDoS-for-hire services with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 05, 2019
Security experts identified nearly 500,000 Ubiquit devices that may be affected by a vulnerability that has already been exploited in the wild. Security experts are warning Ubiquit users of a vulnerability that has already been exploited in the wild. Last week, the researcher Jim Troutman, consultant and director of the Northern New England Neutral Internet Exchange (NNENIX), revealed that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 31, 2019
Imperva mitigated a SYN flood DDoS attack against one of its clients that exceeded 500 million packets per second, this is the largest ever. Earlier this month, the cyber security software and services company Imperva mitigated an attack against one of its clients that exceeded 500 million packets per second. This attack was a SYN […]
