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 ... January 31, 2024
Czechia’s National Cyber and Security Information Agency says it registered a record number of cyber-attacks last year.
The state organisation said on its website on Wednesday that it had recorded 262 such attacks in 2023, compared to 146 the previous year. The agency said the increase was mainly due to repeated waves of DDoS attacks led ... January 25, 2024
Cyber attacks by Russian government-funded groups on the resources run by the Ministry of Defense using phishing, distribution of remote code execution malware, and blocking of access to web resources have been recorded.
“Last day, attacks on Ukraine’s government and commercial sectors were recorded. Also, attacks by Russia-funded hacker groups were launched on the resources of ... January 10, 2024
For the past year, previously unknown self-replicating malware has been compromising Linux devices around the world and installing cryptomining malware that takes unusual steps to conceal its inner workings, researchers said.
The worm is a customized version of Mirai, the botnet malware that infects Linux-based servers, routers, web cameras, and other so-called Internet of Things devices. ... November 23, 2023
StormWall researchers observed that attacks have grown by 43% compared to Q3 2022. Over the past quarter, and according to the analysis conducted by the team, there have been three main trends affecting the surge in DDoS attacks:
The number of multi-vector attacks has increased
There’s been a significant spike in attacks that target multiple protocols or ... November 9, 2023
ChatGPT continued to face intermittent outages late Wednesday, which the platform’s maker OpenAI blamed on a potential cyberattack, hours after the AI chatbot platform recovered from a wide outage that the company initially attributed to a surge in interest for its new features.
Early on Thursday, OpenAI’s service status page displayed a notification saying both ChatGPT ... November 8, 2023
An Indian hacker group, named ‘Indian Cyber Force’ launched cyber attacks on Qatar in response to the death sentence handed to eight former Indian Navy officers by a Qatari court in Espionage case.
The Indian hackers claimed of carrying out cyber attacks on Qatar on November 7. They also alleged of executing unauthorised server access, leaked ... October 11, 2023
Israel’s large cybersecurity base is mobilizing to protect the country’s digital borders from hackers in the wake of a cross-border attack over the weekend that left more than 1,200 people dead and 100 more taken hostage.
Members of the country’s large technology community formed the all-volunteer Israel Tech Guard to search for hostages and missing people ... October 10, 2023
A number of Google services and Cloud customers have been targeted with a novel HTTP/2-based DDoS attack which peaked in August. These attacks were significantly larger than any previously-reported Layer 7 attacks, with the largest attack surpassing 398 million requests per second. The attacks were largely stopped at the edge of our network by Google’s ... October 9, 2023
In September 2023, our FortiGuard Labs team observed that the IZ1H9 Mirai-based DDoS campaign has aggressively updated its arsenal of exploits. Thirteen payloads were included in this variant, including D-Link devices, Netis wireless router, Sunhillo SureLine, Geutebruck IP camera, Yealink Device Management, Zyxel devices, TP-Link Archer, Korenix Jetwave, and TOTOLINK routers.
Based on the trigger counts ... October 9, 2023
Groups range from known collectives to new outfits eager to raise their profile Hacktivism efforts have proliferated rapidly in the Middle East following the official announcement of a war between Palestine and Israel.…
The escalation was spurred by a deadly attack on a music festival by Hamas, along with abductions and killings across scores of Israeli ...