December 21, 2022
Botnet malware operations are a constantly evolving threat to devices and networks. Threat actors target Internet of Things (IoT) devices for recruitment into malicious operations as IoT devices’ configurations often leave them exposed, and the number of internet-connected devices continue to grow. Recent trends have shown that operators are redeploying malware for a variety of ... December 15, 2022
Police around the globe have seized as many as 50 internet domains said to be involved in tens of millions of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks worldwide. Seven people were collared during the swoop.
The so-called “booter” websites sold “some of the world’s leading DDoS-for-hire services,” allowing paying customers to launch these networking-flooding cyberattacks against chosen victims, according ... December 6, 2022
VTB’s technical infrastructure is currently under a major cyberattack from abroad. The bank’s customers may face temporary problems when using the application and the web version of VTB online due to the measures in tackling the attack that are in progress, the press service of Russia’s second-biggest lender reported on Tuesday.
“VTB’s technological infrastructure is currently ... November 7, 2022
In Q3 2022, DDoS attacks were, more often than not, it seemed, politically motivated. As before, most news was focused on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, but other high-profile events also affected the DDoS landscape this quarter.
The pro-Russian group Killnet, active since January 2022, took the responsibility for several more cyberattacks. According to the ... November 2, 2022
The US Treasury Department has thwarted a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that officials attributed to Russian hacktivist group Killnet.
These are the same pro-Kremlin miscreants that claimed responsibility for knocking more than a dozen US airports’ websites offline on October 10 in similar network-traffic flooding incidents. The large-scale DDoS attack didn’t disrupt air travel ... October 28, 2022
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) are releasing this joint guide to provide organizations proactive steps to reduce the likelihood and impact of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. These attacks can cost an organization time and money and may impose ... October 16, 2022
The head of Bulgaria’s National Investigation Service, Borislav Sarafov, said on October 16 that the perpetrator of a cyber attack the previous day on several Bulgarian state, government and private websites had been identified, and the attack had come from a city in Russia.
Sarafov told Bulgarian media that the name and address of the perpetrator ... October 10, 2022
Unknown hackers attacked and temporarily shut down the public-facing websites of at least several major U.S. airports on Monday, a Department of Homeland Security official confirmed to USA TODAY.
The official from DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency or CISA, declined to comment on who might have been behind what appeared to be a coordinated series ... October 10, 2022
A Russia based threat group that set up a malware distribution shop earlier this year is behind a Swiss Army knife-like botnet that comes with a range of other malicious capabilities, from stealing information to mining cryptocurrency.
That’s according to researchers at Zscaler’s ThreatLabz threat intelligence unit. It said the Eternity group – also known as ... September 24, 2022
Hackers staged a powerful and large-scale DDoS attack on the national payment system “Mir” against the backdrop of news about the possible refusal of a number of countries to work with it. How informs “Kommersant”, the goal is to overload the system so that malfunctions in the work of “Mir” begin. The publication refers to ... September 16, 2022
Akamai says it has absorbed the largest-ever publicly known distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack – an assault against an unfortunate Eastern European organization that went beyond 700 million packets per second.
This latest tsunami of traffic hit on Monday, according to the web infrastructure biz, and we’re told the cybercriminals responsible for the earlier record-setting ...