Latest Distributed Denial-of-Service news

DDoS attacks target EU political parties as elections begin

Hacktivists are conducting DDoS attacks on European political parties that represent and promote strategies opposing their interests, according to a report by Cloudflare.
- Bill Toulas
- June 08, 2024
- 10:12 AM
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Bigpanzi botnet infects 170,000 Android TV boxes with malware

A previously unknown cybercrime syndicate named 'Bigpanzi' has been making significant money by infecting Android TV and eCos set-top boxes worldwide since at least 2015.
- Bill Toulas
- January 17, 2024
- 01:54 PM
- 0
Open-source Blender project battling DDoS attacks since Saturday

Blender has confirmed that recent site outages have been caused by ongoing DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks that started on Saturday.
- Bill Toulas
- November 22, 2023
- 11:12 AM
- 4
OpenAI confirms DDoS attacks behind ongoing ChatGPT outages

During the last 24 hours, OpenAI has been addressing what it describes as "periodic outages" linked to DDoS attacks affecting its API and ChatGPT services.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- November 09, 2023
- 03:18 AM
- 1
Russian state-owned Sberbank hit by 1 million RPS DDoS attack

Russian financial organization Sberbank states in a press release that two weeks ago it faced the most powerful distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in recent history.
- Bill Toulas
- November 08, 2023
- 01:14 PM
- 2
Cloudflare sees surge in hyper-volumetric HTTP DDoS attacks

The number of hyper-volumetric HTTP DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks recorded in the third quarter of 2023 surpasses every precedent, indicating that the field has entered a new chapter.
- Bill Toulas
- October 26, 2023
- 09:00 AM
- 0
New 'HTTP/2 Rapid Reset' zero-day attack breaks DDoS records

A new DDoS (distributed denial of service) technique named 'HTTP/2 Rapid Reset' has been actively exploited as a zero-day since August, breaking all previous records in magnitude.
- Bill Toulas
- October 10, 2023
- 10:12 AM
- 0
CISA issues DDoS warning after attacks hit multiple US orgs

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned today of ongoing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks after U.S. organizations across multiple industry sectors were hit.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 30, 2023
- 12:24 PM
- 0
Police cracks down on DDoS-for-hire service active since 2013

Polish police officers part of the country's Central Cybercrime Bureau detained two suspects believed to have been involved in the operation of a long-running DDoS-for-hire service (aka booter or stresser) active since at least 2013.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 16, 2023
- 03:27 PM
- 1
Microsoft: Azure Portal outage was caused by traffic “spike”

Microsoft revealed in an update to the Azure status page that the preliminary root cause behind an outage that impacted the Azure Portal worldwide on Friday was what it described as a traffic "spike."
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 12, 2023
- 12:52 PM
- 2
Outlook.com hit by outages as hacktivists claim DDoS attacks

Outlook.com is suffering a series of outages today after being down multiple times yesterday, with hacktivists known as Anonymous Sudan claiming to perform DDoS attacks on the service.
- Mayank Parmar
- June 06, 2023
- 12:31 PM
- 5
FBI seizes 13 more domains linked to DDoS-for-hire services

The U.S. Justice Department announced today the seizure of 13 more domains linked to DDoS-for-hire platforms, also known as 'booter' or 'stressor' services.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- May 08, 2023
- 04:29 PM
- 0
New SLP bug can lead to massive 2,200x DDoS amplification attacks

A new reflective Denial-of-Service (DoS) amplification vulnerability in the Service Location Protocol (SLP) allows threat actors to launch massive denial-of-service attacks with 2,200X amplification.
- Bill Toulas
- April 25, 2023
- 11:26 AM
- 0
Akamai mitigates record-breaking 900Gbps DDoS attack in Asia

Akamai reports having mitigated the largest DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack ever launched against a customer based in the Asia-Pacific region.
- Bill Toulas
- March 09, 2023
- 02:54 PM
- 1
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New Mirai malware variant infects Linux devices to build DDoS botnet

A new Mirai botnet variant tracked as 'V3G4' targets 13 vulnerabilities in Linux-based servers and IoT devices to use in DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks.
- Bill Toulas
- February 16, 2023
- 05:12 PM
- 0
Cloudflare blocks record-breaking 71 million RPS DDoS attack

This weekend, Cloudflare blocked what it describes as the largest volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack to date.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 13, 2023
- 02:50 PM
- 2
Tor and I2P networks hit by wave of ongoing DDoS attacks

If you've been experiencing Tor network connectivity and performance issues lately, you're not the only one since many others have had issues with onion sites loading slower or not loading at all.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 08, 2023
- 03:42 PM
- 2
Russia’s largest ISP says 2022 broke all DDoS attack records

Russia's largest internet service provider Rostelecom says 2022 was a record year for Distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) targeting organizations in the country.
- Bill Toulas
- January 23, 2023
- 03:18 PM
- 2
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- December 15, 2022
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