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  • Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu com stays down

    May 1, 2026

    Canonical says its web infrastructure is under attack after a pro-Iran hacktivist group instructed its members to target the open source giant. “I can confirm that Canonical’s web infrastructure is under a sustained, cross-border Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack” a Canonical spokesperson told The Register. “Our teams are working to restore full availability to all ...

  • Tracking Mirai Variant Nexcorium: A Vulnerability-Driven IoT Botnet Campaign

    April 17, 2026

    IoT devices are increasingly prime targets for large-scale attacks due to their widespread use, lack of patching, and often weak security settings. Threat actors continue exploiting known vulnerabilities to gain initial access and deploy malware that can persist, spread, and cause distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. FortiGuard Labs has analyzed a recent campaign exploiting CVE-2024-3721 in TBK ...

  • Europol-supported global operation targets over 75 000 users engaged in DDoS attacks

    April 16, 2026

    On 13 April 2026, 21 countries joined forces in a coordinated action week that focused on enforcement and prevention measures against over 75 000 criminal users engaging in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)-for-hire services. With over 75 000 warning emails and letters being sent to identified criminal users and 4 arrests, the action week also led to the ...

  • Authorities disrupt world’s largest IoT DDoS botnets responsible for record breaking attacks targeting victims worldwide

    March 19, 2026

    ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The U.S. Justice Department participated in a court-authorized law enforcement operation today to disrupt Command and Control (C2) infrastructure used by the Aisuru, KimWolf, JackSkid and Mossad Internet of Things (IoT) botnets. The operation was conducted simultaneously to law enforcement actions conducted in Canada and Germany, which targeted individuals who operated these botnets. ...

  • Polish cops bust alleged teen DDoS kit sellers – youngest just 12

    March 10, 2026

    Polish police have referred seven suspected juvenile cybercriminals to family court over an alleged scheme to flog DDoS kits online. The youths, aged between 12 and 16 at the time of the alleged offenses, all face charges related to selling DDoS tools in what police described as a purely profit-driven scheme. Poland’s Central Bureau for Combating ...

  • Polish authorities arrest 20-year-old man on suspicion of carrying out DDoS attacks

    February 3, 2026

    Polish authorities have cuffed a 20-year-old man on suspicion of carrying out DDoS attacks. The Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime (CBZC) claims the unnamed individual was responsible for attacks on “numerous popular websites,” including those of strategic importance. Given the context, it can be reasonably assumed that strategically important websites likely refers to those providing essential ...

  • RondoDox botnet linked to large-scale exploit of critical HPE OneView bug

    January 16, 2026

    A critical HPE OneView flaw is now being exploited at scale, with Check Point tying mass, automated attacks to the RondoDox botnet. The security outfit says it has identified “large-scale exploitation” of CVE-2025-37164, a maximum-severity remote code execution bug in HPE’s data center management platform. Check Point has tied the activity to RondoDox, a Linux-based botnet ...

  • France’s postal and banking services disrupted by suspected DDoS attack

    December 23, 2025

    France’s national postal and banking services were knocked offline by a suspected distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Monday, according to an announcement by La Poste. The postal service called the attack “a major network incident” that was disrupting “all of our information systems.” La Poste’s online mail and banking services, website, and mobile app are among ...

  • Denmark blames Russia for cyberattacks on water utility and local government websites

    December 18, 2025

    The Danish government has accused Russia of being behind two “destructive and disruptive” cyber-attacks in what it describes as “very clear evidence” of a hybrid war. The Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) announced on Thursday that Moscow was behind a cyber-attack on a Danish water utility in 2024 and a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks ...

  • Microsoft says Azure was hit with a massive DDoS attack launched from over 500,000 IP addresses

    November 18, 2025

    Microsoft has said it successfully mitigated, “the largest DDoS attack ever observed in the cloud” after cybercriminals running the Aisuru botnet targeted a single endpoint, located in Australia. The attack was a sight to behold: more than 500,000 source IPs, across various regions, descended upon the endpoint, delivering a multi-vector Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack ...

  • Another massive DDoS attack that reached 1.5 Bpps has been thwarted

    September 13, 2025

    A distributed denial-of-service attack targeting a DDoS mitigation vendor somewhere in Western Europe has been spotted and mitigated by FastNetMon. The firm says the attack peaked at a massive 1.5 billion packets per second, making it one of the largest packet-rate floods confirmed to date. FastNetMon says that the traffic was mainly a UDP flood sourced ...