September 28, 2023
Russian state conglomerate Rostec said on Thursday it had restored normal operations at its Leonardo air booking system following what it called a “massive cyberattack from abroad”. “The cyberattack has been successfully repelled,” Rostec said in a statement.
It described the incident as a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attack”, in which the attacker floods a server with ... September 11, 2023
Windows arbitrary file deletion vulnerabilities should no longer be considered mere annoyances or tools for Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. Over the past couple of years, these vulnerabilities have matured into potent threats capable of unearthing a portal to full system compromise.
This transformation is exemplified in CVE-2023-27470 (an arbitrary file deletion vulnerability in N-Able’s Take Control Agent ... September 6, 2023
CISA has released actionable guidance for Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to help them evaluate and mitigate the risk of volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against their websites and related web services. The Capacity Enhancement Guide: Volumetric DDoS Against Web Services Technical Guidance:
Helps agencies prioritize DDoS mitigations based on mission and reputational impact.
Describes DDoS ... September 4, 2023
German banking regulator BaFin said its website has only been partially accessible since Friday after a so-called distributed denial of service attack.
BaFin took security and defensive measures after the attack which also restrict access to the website, according to a spokeswoman. All of BaFin’s other systems are working without disruption, she said.
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August 31, 2023
A hacking group called Anonymous Sudan took X, formerly known as Twitter, offline in more than a dozen countries on Tuesday morning in an attempt to pressurise Elon Musk into launching his Starlink service in their country.
X was down for more than two hours, with thousands of users affected. “Make our message reach to Elon ... July 20, 2023
In early 2022, Mandiant predicted that Russian cyber threat activity associated with the invasion of Ukraine would affect government and private sector targets in third-party countries, particularly neighboring countries, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies, and other nations voicing support for Ukraine. Russian government-linked actors have historically employed false hacktivist facades as a means of ... July 19, 2023
In June 2023, FortiGuard Labs detected the propagation of several DDoS botnets exploiting the Zyxel vulnerability (CVE-2023-28771).
This vulnerability is characterized by a command injection flaw affecting multiple firewall models that could potentially allow an unauthorized attacker to execute arbitrary code by sending a specifically crafted packet to the targeted device. The severity of this flaw, ... July 18, 2023
The second quarter of 2023 was characterized by thought-out, tailored and persistent waves of DDoS attack campaigns on various fronts, including:
Multiple DDoS offensives orchestrated by pro-Russian hacktivist groups REvil, Killnet and Anonymous Sudan against Western interest websites.
An increase in deliberately engineered and targeted DNS attacks alongside a 532% surge in DDoS attacks exploiting the Mitel ... July 13, 2023
The Libyan Post Telecommunications & Information Technology Company (LPTIC) said Wednesday that the data center of Libya Internet and Technology, the state-run internet provider, came under a cyber attack which led to disruption of services.
In a statement, the LPTIC added that unknown attacker attempted to hack the data center but its cybersecurity team and LTT ... June 30, 2023
CISA is aware of open-source reporting of targeted denial-of-service (DoS) and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against multiple organizations in multiple sectors. These attacks can cost an organization time and money and may impose reputational costs while resources and services are inaccessible.
If you think you or your business is experiencing a DoS or DDoS attack, it ... June 22, 2023
Since March 2023, Unit 42 researchers have observed threat actors leveraging several IoT vulnerabilities to spread a variant of the Mirai botnet.
The threat actors have the ability to gain complete control over the compromised devices, integrating those devices into the botnet. These devices are then used to execute additional attacks, including distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
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