Attacks on the Internet keep getting bigger and nastier
8 years, 5 months ago

Attacks on the Internet keep getting bigger and nastier

LA Times  

Could millions of connected cameras, thermostats and kids’ toys bring the Internet to its knees? Jason Read, founder of the Internet performance monitoring firm CloudHarmony, owned by Gartner Inc., said his company tracked a half-hour-long disruption early Friday affecting access to many sites from the East Coast. Lance Cottrell, chief scientist for cybersecurity firm Ntrepid, said while DDoS attacks have been used for years, they’ve become very popular in recent months, thanks to the proliferation of “Internet of things” devices ranging from connected thermostats to security cameras and smart TVs. Because the attacks usually don’t harm the consumer electronics companies that build the devices, or the consumers who unwittingly use them, companies have little incentive to boost security, Cottrell said. For its part, a member of New World Hackers who used the name “Prophet” told an Associated Press reporter via a Twitter direct message exchange that collective isn’t motivated by money and doesn’t have anything personal against Dyn, Twitter or any of the other sites affected by the attacks.

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2024: A year of data leaks, espionage, and DDoS attacks
3 months, 1 week ago

2024: A year of data leaks, espionage, and DDoS attacks

India Today  

2024 has been an eventful year for Indian cyberspace as firms suffered massive data breaches resulting in millions of dollars in losses, Indian defence institutions faced espionage bids and many important sites were taken down by ideologically-motivated hackers. The hacking of Burger Singh fast food chain site, SPARSH pension portal, and attacks on Hathway internet service provider, Telangana Police’s Hawk …

What Is DDOS Attack That Marred Elon Musk’s Interview With Donald Trump? Can It Be Prevented?
7 months, 2 weeks ago

What Is DDOS Attack That Marred Elon Musk’s Interview With Donald Trump? Can It Be Prevented?

News 18  

X owner Elon Musk said on Monday that a distributed denial-of-service attack may have interrupted the company’s servers, delaying his interview with presidential candidate Donald Trump at 8 pm. Cybersecurity company Norton stated that DDoS “is a type of hacking attack that aims to disrupt the normal operations of a targeted server, service, or network by flooding it with internet …

What is a DDoS attack? All about the malicious cybercrime that delayed Donald Trump's interview with Elon Musk
7 months, 2 weeks ago

What is a DDoS attack? All about the malicious cybercrime that delayed Donald Trump's interview with Elon Musk

Hindustan Times  

As millions of users waited for Donald Trump’s interview with Elon Musk, the Tesla CEO revealed on X that it was delayed due to a “massive DDOS attack on X.” While the interview was scheduled to start at 8 pm ET on August 8, users restlessly waited as it kept getting delayed before finally starting. All about cybercrime that delayed …

DDoS attacks behind ongoing ChatGPT outages, confirms OpenAI: Report
1 year, 4 months ago

DDoS attacks behind ongoing ChatGPT outages, confirms OpenAI: Report

The Hindu  

OpenAI confirmed it has been addressing “periodic outages” due to denial-of-services attacks on its API and ChatGPT services. The confirmation from OpenAI comes days after the company addressed another ChatGPT outage that also took down its Application Programming Interface, partial outages and Dall-E elevated error rates. The threat actor further stated that OpenAI was targeted for its “cooperation with the …

Google And Amazon Successfully Fend Off The 'Largest DDoS Attack' Ever: All Details
1 year, 5 months ago

Google And Amazon Successfully Fend Off The 'Largest DDoS Attack' Ever: All Details

News 18  

Google, Amazon, and Cloudflare—some of the biggest internet-facing companies—have reportedly “mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date,” which peaked at over 398 million requests per second. The attack, said to have been facilitated using a new vulnerability—CVE-2023-44487—that exists in the HTTP/2 protocol, was reportedly seven and a half times larger compared to an attack that happened last year, according to …

Explained | Cyber attack on South African news site that reported on Modi during BRICS Summit
1 year, 7 months ago

Explained | Cyber attack on South African news site that reported on Modi during BRICS Summit

The Hindu  

The story so far: South African news portal, Daily Maverick, alleged it was hit by a DDoS cyberattack from India forcing it to block its entire domain of India to protect its site. The alleged attack was launched a day after the portal reported that Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, refused to disembark from his aircraft at Waterkloof Air Force …

Bangladesh hacktivists focus DDoS attacks and data breaches on India: Report
1 year, 7 months ago

Bangladesh hacktivists focus DDoS attacks and data breaches on India: Report

India TV News  

Bangladesh hacktivists focus DDoS attacks and data breaches on India: Report The hacktivist group known as Mysterious Team Bangladesh has been revealed as responsible for more than 750 distributed denial-of-service attacks and 78 website defacements since June 2022. A hacktivist collective named Mysterious Team Bangladesh has been identified as the source behind over 750 distributed denial-of-service attacks and 78 website …

European Parliament website affected by cyberattack
2 years, 4 months ago

European Parliament website affected by cyberattack

Associated Press  

BRUSSELS — The European Parliament’s web site came under a cyberattack by a pro-Moscow group only hours after lawmakers overwhelmingly backed a resolution calling Russia a state sponsor of terrorism, the legislature’s president said Wednesday. President Roberta Metsola said in a twitter statement that the parliament “is under a sophisticated cyberattack” and that a “pro-Kremlin group has claimed responsibility.” The …

Ukraine cyberattack is largest of its kind in country’s history, says official
3 years, 1 month ago

Ukraine cyberattack is largest of its kind in country’s history, says official

CNN  

CNN — A high-volume cyberattack that temporarily blocked access to the websites of Ukrainian defense agencies and banks on Tuesday was “the largest in the history of Ukraine,” according to a government minister. Internet traffic hitting Ukrainian websites during the DDoS attack was “three orders of magnitude more than regularly observed traffic,” according to data collected by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. …

China launched the biggest DDoS attack in history against Google, company claims
4 years, 5 months ago

China launched the biggest DDoS attack in history against Google, company claims

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A report from Google’s Threat Analysis Group said that the attack came from China, as it originated …

Google stopped one of the biggest DDoS attacks of all times: See what is it
4 years, 5 months ago

Google stopped one of the biggest DDoS attacks of all times: See what is it

India TV News  

The cybersecurity threats such as distributed denial-of-service are growing exponentially, disrupting businesses of all sizes globally, leading to outages and loss of user trust, Google has said. The tech giant revealed that its infrastructure absorbed a massive 2.5Tbps DDoS in September 2017, the highest-bandwidth attack reported to date which was the culmination of a six-month campaign that utilised multiple methods …

Google Faced the Largest DDoS Attack Seen Yet from Chinese State-backed Hackers in 2017
4 years, 5 months ago

Google Faced the Largest DDoS Attack Seen Yet from Chinese State-backed Hackers in 2017

News 18  

Google on Friday revealed that a “state- Explaining the DDoS or distributed denial of service attack, the company said that the hacker hopes to disrupt their victim’s service with a flood of useless traffic. While this attack doesn’t expose user data or doesn’t lead to a compromise, it can result in an outage and loss of user trust if not …

China opens another front, steps up cyberattacks that target India: Intel
4 years, 9 months ago

China opens another front, steps up cyberattacks that target India: Intel

Hindustan Times  

China has opened another front against India with sustained DDOS attacks on Indian information websites and the country’s financial payments system. Most of the attacks were traced back to the central Chinese city of Chengdu. The capital of Sichuan province, Chengdu is known for being the headquarters of the People’s Liberation Army’s Unit 61398, the Chinese military’s primary covert cyberwarfare …

Facebook denies DDoS cyber attack as Whatsapp, Instagram, Messenger face outage
6 years ago

Facebook denies DDoS cyber attack as Whatsapp, Instagram, Messenger face outage

Live Mint  

Facebook ruled out a cyber attack on its products Whatsapp, Instagram and Messenger, which suffered service outage for hours on Wednesday. Users across the globe experienced problems sending messages on Facebook's messaging apps Messenger and Whatsapp. "We're focused on working to resolve the issue as soon as possible, but can confirm that the issue is not related to a DDoS …

The number of DDoS attacks declined by 55 percent globally in the second quarter of 2017
7 years, 6 months ago

The number of DDoS attacks declined by 55 percent globally in the second quarter of 2017

Firstpost  

According to the global Internet security firm Verisign, the average attack peak size also decreased by 81 percent in the quarter. The number of Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks declined 55 percent in the second quarter of 2017 compared to the first quarter globally, a new report said on Thursday. Verisign said that 74 percent of DDoS attacks it mitigated employed multiple …

An Ambitious Plan to Stop DDoS for Good Has Its Limits
55 years, 3 months ago

An Ambitious Plan to Stop DDoS for Good Has Its Limits

Wired  

The digital assaults known as distributed denial of service attacks occur constantly, whether you notice them or not. Its new “Unmetered Mitigation” program means Cloudflare customers who pay the company for its other service will no longer be at risk of higher charges during a DDoS incident, and customers who use Cloudflare’s free products will have unlimited DDoS protection included …

How Netflix DDoS’d Itself To Help Protect the Entire Internet
55 years, 3 months ago

How Netflix DDoS’d Itself To Help Protect the Entire Internet

Wired  

In June 2016, Netflix security engineer Scott Behrens ran a massive infrastructure test on the streaming system in front of dozens of coworkers. Behrens, working with cloud security engineer Jeremy Heffner and others, had successfully shown that Netflix was in fact vulnerable to an unorthodox type of distributed denial of service attack. The process also helps ensure that Netflix can …

Hyderabad: Hackers inject virus via DDOS
7 years, 10 months ago

Hyderabad: Hackers inject virus via DDOS

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Hackers are targeting 58 per cent of IT companies across the globe to inject ransomware through DDOS attacks from IP to IP, to demand more bit-coins. The Verisign’s report has also revealed that the financial sector was badly victimized in Q1 of 2017 with 28 per cent of DDOS attacks. Similarly, the media and entertainment sector was affected to …

New cyberattacks on major banks thwarted, Russia says
8 years, 3 months ago

New cyberattacks on major banks thwarted, Russia says

Al Jazeera  

Distributed denial of service strikes on five biggest banks and financial organisations in Russia was halted. Russia’s telecom operator on Friday said it had blocked a series of cyberattacks on the country’s leading banks this week, the latest to target Moscow’s financial sector. Rostelecom said in a statement it “successfully thwarted DDoS on the five biggest banks and financial organisations …

DDoS attacks are often complex and hard to predict, says VeriSign
8 years, 3 months ago

DDoS attacks are often complex and hard to predict, says VeriSign

Firstpost  

Distributed denial-of-service attacks continue to be complex and unpredictable, making them more challenging for companies to mitigate, global domain and internet service provider VeriSign said on Wednesday. Out of all the VeriSign customers targeted by DDoS attacks, 41 per cent were targeted multiple times during the quarter. “User Datagram Protocol, flood attacks continue to dominate in third quarter of this …

Germany hack of Deutsche Telekom customers sees nearly one million affected
8 years, 4 months ago

Germany hack of Deutsche Telekom customers sees nearly one million affected

Daily Mail  

Nearly a million Deutsche Telekom customers in Germany were affected by a mass internet outage as hackers attempted to hijack home web routers as part of a wider attack. Scroll down for video Nearly a million Deutsche Telekom customers in Germany were affected by a mass internet outage as hackers attempted to hijack home web routers as part of a …

Internet-connected gadgets blamed for Friday malware attack
8 years, 5 months ago

Internet-connected gadgets blamed for Friday malware attack

Live Mint  

London/New York: Vulnerable Internet-connected devices such as cameras and digital video recorders may be to blame for the attack that took down some of the world’s most popular websites on Friday. Malware that targets the “Internet of things,” a new breed of small gadgets that are connected to the Internet, may have powered the global attack, according to Brian Krebs, …

The possible vendetta behind US Internet attacks
8 years, 5 months ago

The possible vendetta behind US Internet attacks

Live Mint  

London/New York: Millions of internet users lost access to some of the world’s most popular websites on Friday, as hackers hammered servers along the US East Coast with phony traffic until they crashed, then moved westward. Kyle York, chief strategy officer of Dyn, said the hackers launched a so-called distributed denial-of-service attack using “tens of millions” of malware-infected devices connected …

'Internet Of Things' Hacking Attack Led To Widespread Outage Of Popular Websites
8 years, 5 months ago

'Internet Of Things' Hacking Attack Led To Widespread Outage Of Popular Websites

NPR  

'Internet Of Things' Hacking Attack Led To Widespread Outage Of Popular Websites SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Disruptions rippled through the internet yesterday. And Dyn's clients are some of the most popular websites and services out there, and that's why when Dyn's servers were attacked - these attacks rolled through the entire day, lots of different locations - that's when you saw …

What We Know About Friday's Massive East Coast Internet Outage
8 years, 5 months ago

What We Know About Friday's Massive East Coast Internet Outage

Wired  

Friday morning is prime time for some casual news reading, tweeting, and general Internet browsing, but you may have had some trouble accessing your usual sites and services this morning and throughout the day, from Spotify and Reddit to the New York Times and even good ol' WIRED.com. This morning's attack started around 7 am ET and was aimed at …

Twitter, Spotify and Reddit are among major sites taken offline in massive cyber attack
8 years, 5 months ago

Twitter, Spotify and Reddit are among major sites taken offline in massive cyber attack

Daily Mail  

A massive co-ordinated series of cyber attacks forced hundreds of major websites including Amazon and Twitter offline Friday - and some fear the security breach could be 'practice for election day'. Pictured are maps from Down Detector of the first two attacks, the first of which mostly affected the east coast of the US, while the UK bore the brunt …

A massive cyberattack blocked your favorite websites; FBI and Homeland Security are investigating
8 years, 5 months ago

A massive cyberattack blocked your favorite websites; FBI and Homeland Security are investigating

LA Times  

Twitter is among the websites affected by a cyberattack. It’s a tactic that’s on the rise, said Vince Berk, chief executive of FlowTraq, a network security company that specializes in detecting and defeating DDoS attacks. As security experts get better at keeping threats at bay, hackers are increasingly turning to DDoS attacks, which he described as the “crudest form of …

What Was Up With The Internet Today? Websites Lagged Or Didn't Load For Many
8 years, 5 months ago

What Was Up With The Internet Today? Websites Lagged Or Didn't Load For Many

NPR  

What Was Up With The Internet Today? "We see dozens of attacks over the period of weeks and months.. We're always seeing DDoS attacks," says Dyn Chief Strategy Officer Kyle York. The attack on Dyn targeted DNS servers, which as Bloomberg aptly puts it "is like taking away all the road signs on a country's highway system." Here's how computer-security …

Experts fear spike in hacking after Mirai cyber attack code is released
8 years, 5 months ago

Experts fear spike in hacking after Mirai cyber attack code is released

Daily Mail  

Web security analysts have warned of a flood of online attacks from hackers after code for a bot used to carry out a huge hack was published online. Security experts have warned of a wave of online attacks after hackers published malware code behind a huge DDoS attack in an online forum. Called ‘Mirai’, the code is believed to be …

Column: Cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs was silenced by a huge hacker attack. That should terrify you.
8 years, 6 months ago

Column: Cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs was silenced by a huge hacker attack. That should terrify you.

LA Times  

In late September, the website of journalist and cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs was hit with a crippling hacker assault known as a “distributed denial of service,” or DDoS, which knocked him off the Internet for several days. “The economics of mitigating large-scale DDoS attacks do not bode well for protecting the individual user, to say nothing of independent journalists,” Krebs …

What is a denial of service attack? Your questions answered
8 years, 7 months ago

What is a denial of service attack? Your questions answered

ABC  

The Australian Bureau of Statistics pulled down its census website last night after it was subject to "four denial of service attacks". "It makes me think it was more of a technical attack rather than just a flood of pretending to be 10 million users," Mr Phair said. Mr MacGibbon said on the fourth attempt of a denial of service, …

HSBC down: What is a DDoS attack, why are they so common, and how can you avoid one?
9 years, 2 months ago

HSBC down: What is a DDoS attack, why are they so common, and how can you avoid one?

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Normal service is now being resumed and HSBC apologised for the outage, but the issues proved that …

DDoS Attacks: What Are They?
9 years, 2 months ago

DDoS Attacks: What Are They?

Wired  

You see them mentioned in the news all the time. DoS stands for "denial of service" and refers to an attack that overwhelms a system with data---most commonly a flood of simultaneous requests sent to a website to view its pages, causing the web server to crash or simply become inoperable as it struggles to respond to more requests than …

BBC website down: New World Hacking claims cyber attack was just to 'test capabilities' before taking on Isis
9 years, 2 months ago

BBC website down: New World Hacking claims cyber attack was just to 'test capabilities' before taking on Isis

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A representative from New World Hacking said it “didn’t …

'Historic' Web Attack Didn't Cripple The Internet And Is Over Anyway
12 years ago

'Historic' Web Attack Didn't Cripple The Internet And Is Over Anyway

NPR  

'Historic' Web Attack Didn't Cripple The Internet And Is Over Anyway There's much angst over the cyberattack that we and others reported about Wednesday — a denial-of-service broadside allegedly aimed at an anti-spam group by a Dutch hosting company, Cyberbunker. Well, there are two things everyone needs to know this morning: -- "Companies that monitor Internet traffic" say the attack …

Why You Probably Didn't Notice The 'Worst Cyberattack In History'
12 years ago

Why You Probably Didn't Notice The 'Worst Cyberattack In History'

NPR  

Why You Probably Didn't Notice The 'Worst Cyberattack In History' What had earlier been widely billed as the largest cyberattack in history, causing Web-wide disruptions for Internet users, appears on closer inspection to have been not quite so dramatic as first thought. A story at Mashable has a nice, concise definition of the attack, known as a distributed denial of …

‘Largest ever’ cyber attack jams Internet
12 years ago

‘Largest ever’ cyber attack jams Internet

The Hindu  

A squabble between a group fighting spam and a Dutch company that hosts websites said to be sending spam has escalated into one of the largest computer attacks on the Internet, causing widespread congestion and jamming crucial infrastructure. The attacks are becoming increasingly powerful, and computer security experts worry that if they continue to escalate, people may not be able …

Worst Attack In 'History Of The Internet' Threatens Web
12 years ago

Worst Attack In 'History Of The Internet' Threatens Web

NPR  

Worst Attack In 'History Of The Internet' Threatens Web toggle caption iStockphoto There's a fight over spam — and it might be the cause of one of the largest-ever cyberattacks in history. Here's the story behind the fight, courtesy The New York Times: "The dispute started when the spam-fighting group, called Spamhaus, added the Dutch company Cyberbunker to its blacklist, …

The anatomy of a DDoS attack
12 years, 9 months ago

The anatomy of a DDoS attack

The Hindu  

Even as the debate on Internet censorship and government regulation of social media was hotting up, the recent move by some Internet service providers to block websites that allow peer-to-peer file sharing, has netizens up in arms. DDoS attacks are well-orchestrated ones on Web servers of a website, and on the domain name servers. DDoS attacks exploit this limitation by …

WikiLeaks site evades hackers with shift to Amazon
14 years, 4 months ago

WikiLeaks site evades hackers with shift to Amazon

The Hindu  

WikiLeaks, the site that has infuriated the US government by releasing thousands of US diplomatic cables, is being hosted by one of the symbols of that country’s internet success — Amazon. While Amazon is American, not all of its servers are hosted there — and it could cause a major incident if the U.S. government were to take action against …

Hackers attack Net traffic computers
18 years, 1 month ago

Hackers attack Net traffic computers

China Daily  

Updated: 2007-02-07 07:28 Hackers briefly overwhelmed at least three of the 13 computers that help manage global computer traffic Tuesday in one of the most significant attacks against the Internet since 2002. The attacks appeared to target UltraDNS, the company that operates servers managing traffic for Web sites ending in "org" and some other suffixes, experts said. Among the targeted …

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