August 8, 2024
The Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation has reported that a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the Kursk Region’s local services has been successfully thwarted.
“A massive DDoS attack on the regional services of the Kursk Region has been repelled and specialists have already restored all online activity,” the ... August 7, 2024
A port has fallen victim to cyber attackers who targeted its website. The Port of Tyne confirmed its site was down for some time on Tuesday following a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack, which attempts to overload a website to make it hard to use or inaccessible.
A spokesman for the port said operational systems, ... July 30, 2024
A global outage affecting Microsoft products including email service Outlook and video game Minecraft has been resolved, the technology giant said in an update, external.
The firm said preliminary investigations show the outage was caused by a cyber-attack and a failure to properly defend against it. Earlier, the company issued an apology for the incident, which ... July 17, 2024
A university student who created malware targeting government websites while living with his parents has been jailed.
Amar Tagore, 21, a third year university student, offered buyers malware (malicious software) to disrupt corporate and state-run websites, while living with his parents in Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire. He supplied a tool used by hundreds of online customers to ... June 5, 2024
Hackers from the Main Intelligence Directorate (DIU) of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense have attacked the electronic services of several Russian ministries and banking institutions, according to RBC-Ukraine source in the special services.
According to Roskomnadzor (Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media) , the disruption is allegedly linked to an accident in ... May 23, 2024
The Bank of Russia reported an increase in the number of attacks on suppliers of various IT solutions used in the financial market, the regulator said in its report.
“It is particularly noteworthy that attacks on third parties – suppliers of various IT solutions utilized in the financial market – have increased in frequency in 2023. ... May 15, 2024
A 21-year-old man from West Dunbartonshire has been convicted of creating, selling and supporting an online computer system with the capability of bringing down websites.
Detective Chief Inspector Andy Maclean, of Police Scotland’s Cybercrime Investigations Unit, said: “Tagore supplied a tool used by his customers to carry out Distributed Denial of Services (DDOS) attacks. These are ... March 17, 2024
Speaking at a news conference in Moscow, Ella Pamfilova, head of Russia’s Central Election Commission, said that the overall turnout in the presidential election as of 3:45 p.m. Moscow time (1245GMT), taking into account remote electronic voting, is 70.81%.
Pamfilova also said that about 280,000 DDoS cyberattacks against remote electronic voting had been foiled, including 215,000 ... February 19, 2024
The University faced a cyberattack yesterday (20/02), which is affected internet and services across multiple UK higher education institutions.
Students at various colleges were notified of the attack, which affected access to IT services such as CamSIS and Moodle. An internal email revealed that the incident was a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, described as ... February 7, 2024
A news story about the hacking of three million smart toothbrushes to create a massive botnet used to launch a distributed denial of service cyberattack against a Swiss organization has gone viral.
However, many in the information security industry, including the author, have trouble finding evidence to support the story. Searching Google reveals that everything from ... February 5, 2024
Pennsylvania Courts’ website was targeted in a cyber attack on Sunday. Pennsylvania’s Chief Justice Debra Todd made the announcement, saying portions of the website were made unavailable due to the attack.
The situation was described as a denial of service cyber attack. Todd said there was no indication any court data was compromised and courts will ...