DDoS

Pierluigi Paganini September 19, 2020
German encrypted email service Tutanota suffers DDoS attacks

The popular encrypted email service Tutanota was hit with a series of DDoS attacks this week targeting its website fist and its DNS providers later. Encrypted email service, Tutanota suffered a series of DDoS attacks that initially targeted the website and later its DNS providers. The company currently has over 2 million users, some of them were not […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 15, 2020
Experts warn of surge in DDoS attacks targeting education institutions

Experts warn of a surge in the DDoS attacks against education institutions and the academic industry across the world. While the popularity of online learning is increasing due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, threat actors are launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) on education institutions and the academic industry across the world. The DDoS attacks are causing […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 27, 2020
New Zealand stock exchange (NZX) halted 2 days by DDoS attack

New Zealand’s stock exchange (NZX) confirmed it was hit by a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack from abroad that knocked it offline two days. New Zealand’s stock exchange (NZX) has been hit by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that took it offline for two days, trading activity was interrupted until the connectivity was restored. According […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 26, 2020
New Lucifer DDoS botnet targets Windows systems with multiple exploits

A new botnet, tracked as Lucifer, appeared in the threat landscape, it leverages close to a dozen exploits to hack Windows systems. A new botnet tracked as Lucifer appeared in the threat landscape, it leverages a dozen exploits for high and critical severity flaws affecting Windows systems. Upon infecting a system the bot turns it […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 25, 2020
Akamai mitigated the largest ever PPS DDoS attack

Akamai announced to have mitigated a record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that hit a European bank. Akamai revealed that a bank in Europe was hit by a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked a record 809 million packets per second (PPS). “On June 21, 2020, Akamai mitigated the largest packet per second (PPS) distributed […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 17, 2020
AWS mitigated largest DDoS attack ever of 2.3 Tbps

AWS announced it has mitigated a 2.3 Tbps DDoS attack, the largest ever, which surpassed the previous record of 1.7 Tbps that took place in March 2018. Amazon announced it has mitigated the largest ever DDoS attack of 2.3 Tbps, the news is surprising if we consider that the previous record was of 1.7 Tbps […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 16, 2020
T-Mobile suffered a major outage in the US allegedly caused by a massive DDoS attack

Wireless carrier T-Mobile suffered a major outage in the United States, that impacted service at other carriers, due to a “massive” DDoS attack. Wireless carrier T-Mobile suffered a massive DDoS attack that caused a major outage in the United States that impacted service at other carriers due to a “massive” DDoS attack. The attack started […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 28, 2020
SANDMAN AND FINEPROXY BEHIND THE DDOS ATTACKS AGAINST TIMETV.LIVE

Timetv.live is the latest Azeri news site targeted by Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks launched by Sandman threat actor, the attack took place on March 21, 2020. Original Post by Qurium: *Qurium’s forensics report:* Sandman and Fineproxy behind the DDoSAttacks against TimeTV.Live https://www.qurium.org/alerts/azerbaijan/sandman-and-fineproxy-behind-the-ddos-attacks-against-timetv-live/ Timetv.live is the latest Azeri news site targeted by Denial of Service attacks. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 13, 2020
The Dutch police took down 15 DDoS-for-hire services in a week

Dutch authorities have taken down 15 DDoS-for-hire services in a week, this is another success of law enforcement in the fight against cybercrime. An operation conducted by Dutch authorities last week has shut down 15 DDoS-for-hire services (aka DDoS booters or DDoS stressor), states a press release published by Dutch police. The operation was conducted […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 08, 2020
Dark Nexus, a new IoT botnet that targets a broad range of devices

Cybersecurity researchers discovered a new IoT botnet, tracked as Dark Nexux, that is used to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Dark Nexux is the name of a new emerging IoT botnet discovered by Bitdefender that is used to launch DDoS attacks. The botnet spreads using exploits and launching credential stuffing attacks against a broad range […]