March 1, 2018
GitHub has revealed it was hit with what may be the largest-ever distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
The first portion of the attack against the developer platform peaked at 1.35Tbps, and there was a second 400Gbps spike later. This would make it the biggest DDoS attack recorded so far. Until now, the biggest clocked in ... February 1, 2018
There is as yet no indication of who is behind the massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on Netherlands banks and government websites that ran from last weekend to Tuesday. Initial reports suggesting a Russian connection appear baseless.
The attacks began just a couple of days after media reports stated that Dutch intelligence tipped off their ... October 24, 2017
A new and growing botnet called Reaper or Troop (detected by Trend Micro as ELF_IOTREAPER.A) has been found currently affecting more than one million organizations. According to the security researchers from Check Point and Qihoo 360 Netlab, the botnet they discovered is more sophisticated and potentially more damaging than Mirai. Reaper actually uses some of the code from ... September 30, 2017
A cyber attack brought down the the National Lottery website last night, Camelot has admitted.
The website was down for more than an hour-and-a-half yesterday evening, due to a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack – when hackers flooded the website with online traffic.
A Camelot spokesperson said: “Unfortunately, as experienced by many companies, The National Lottery website was subject to ... September 28, 2017
A Turkish hacker group has claimed responsibility for a cyber attack that has rendered the Danish Ministry of Immigration website inaccessible.
The Ministry of Immigration, as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, were hit Wednesday by a cyber attack thought to have come from a Turkish hacker group, reports broadcaster DR.
The former ministry’s website ... September 22, 2017
An IoT botnet is making a nuisance of itself online after becoming a conduit for spam distribution.
Linux.ProxyM has the capability to engage in email spam campaigns with marked difference to other IoT botnets, such as Mirai, that infamously offered a potent platform for running distributed-denial-of-service attacks (DDoSing). Other IoT botnets have been used as proxies ... August 28, 2017
Do you believe that just because you have downloaded an app from the official app store, you’re safe from malware?
Think twice before believing it.
A team of security researchers from several security firms have uncovered a new, widespread botnet that consists of tens of thousands of hacked Android smartphones.
Dubbed WireX, detected as “Android Clicker,” the botnet ... July 14, 2017
Cybercrime has continued to evolve and today exists in a highly organised form.
Cybercrime has increasingly been commercialised, and itself become big business by renting out an expanded range of hacking tools and technologies, from exploit kits to ransomware, to help anyone build threats and launch attacks.
In past few years, we have witnessed the increase in ... July 7, 2017
The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) is looking into reports of suspected cyber attacks disrupting online trading at several local brokerages.
The regulator said it was assisting the stock exchange in investigating the disruption, a report by Nikkei Markets said on Friday.
This comes after several brokerages alerted clients that their online broking services had been ... June 14, 2017
The United States government has released a rare alert about an ongoing, eight-year-long North Korean state-sponsored hacking operation.
The joint report from the FBI and U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) provided details on “DeltaCharlie,” a malware variant used by “Hidden Cobra” hacking group to infect hundreds of thousands of computers globally as part of its ... May 2, 2017
The time to respond and mitigate DDoS attacks can be costly for companies, and some businesses can lose roughly $2.5 million on average per attack, a research report released today said.
Neustar, an analytics firm that sees swathes of DDoS attack telemetry daily, boiled down some of the figures in a dispatch, its annual Worldwide DDoS Attacks and Cyber Insights ...