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DeepSeek sees partial restoration of services after massive DDoS attack

Paul Hill — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 10:00:02 +0000

DeepSeek, the powerful Chinese ChatGPT rival, has partially restored its services after a massive DDoS attack in recent days. Just the ability to do web searches remains offline. Read more...

Internet Archive confirms data breach of over 31 million accounts, suffers many DDoS attacks

Karthik Mudaliar — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 07:30:01 +0000

The Internet Archive, aka Wayback Machine, confirmed that hackers breached its systems, impacting over 31 million accounts. It also faced multiple DDoS attacks that disrupted its services. Read more...

Internet Archive is continuing to face DDoS attacks after several days

Aditya Tiwari — Wed, 29 May 2024 06:54:01 +0000

Internet Archive and Wayback Machine have been facing DDoS cyberattacks for the last few days. The non-profit assured that collections are safe despite the service being inconsistent since Sunday. Read more...

ChatGPT has been experiencing outages in the past day likely due to a DDoS attack

John Callaham — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 11:24:02 +0000

OpenAI's ChatGPT AI chatbot has been experiencing a number of periodic outages over the past day, due to what the company calls "an abnormal traffic pattern reflective of a DDoS attack." Read more...

Microsoft denies allegations of a data breach that leaked data of 30 million customers

Mehrotra A — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 11:24:01 +0000

Microsoft has denied the claims made by Anonymous Sudan that the hacker group was able to access company's servers during a cyberattack last month and steal data of 30 million customers. Read more...

Diablo IV servers and other Blizzard games were hit briefly by a DDoS attack Sunday

John Callaham — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 14:58:59 +0000

The DDoS attack on the Diablo IV servers affected latency and connections for players of Blizzard's popular action-RPG game along with the company's other online games, but it has now been dealt with. Read more...

Microsoft just can't catch a breath, another outage hit today after the recent DDoS attack

Sayan Sen — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 15:04:01 +0000

Microsoft 365 was recently taken down heavily by a massive DDoS attack. And today, only about two weeks after the resolution of that issue, there was outage and issues today across Western Europe. Read more...

Microsoft says the early June outage to its services was due to a DDoS cyberattack

Mehrotra A — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 09:30:01 +0000

Microsoft has revealed that the disruption to its services in the beginning of June was caused by a sophisticated DDoS cyberattack that overloaded the systems and caused a global blackout. Read more...

Google Cloud blocks largest DDoS attack ever, beating Cloudflare's previous record with ease

Usama Jawad — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 06:06:01 +0000

Google has announced that it now wears the crown for blocking the largest DDoS attack ever. Its DDoS attack peaked at 46 million requests per second which is 76% higher than Cloudflare's best. Read more...

Cloudflare just stopped the biggest HTTPS DDoS attack on record

Paul Hill — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 22:24:01 +0000

Cloudflare has stopped the largest HTTPS DDoS attack on record. The botnet was making 26 million requests per second leveraging Cloud Service Providers' virtual machines and servers. Read more...

Cloudflare reports that it has blocked one of the largest HTTPS DDoS attacks ever seen

Paul Hill — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 01:24:01 +0000

Cloudflare has recorded the largest ever HTTPS DDoS attack against one of its customers. It said HTTPS DDoS attacks are more expensive to launch and more expensive to mitigate for those targeted. Read more...

Ukraine is calling for volunteers to cyberattack Russia

Karthik Mudaliar — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 21:10:01 +0000

Ukraine's digital transformation minister Mykhailo Fedorov is calling for international volunteers to help wage cyber-war on Russia. The telegram channel has more than 180,000 members. Read more...

Microsoft sets a new record as it mitigates a 3.47 Tbps DDoS attack on Azure servers

Mehrotra A — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 14:08:01 +0000

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that it set a new record after the company successfully defended against DDoS attack with a throughput of 3.47 Tbps and a rate of 340 million packets per second. Read more...

New year brings bad news for Linux as 2021 saw up to 10 times more malware samples

Sayan Sen — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 22:30:02 +0000

According to a CrowdStrike report, Linux malware and malware samples have increased by a lot in 2021 as compared to a year prior. One of the malware types has seen submissions increase by tenfold. Read more...

Microsoft touts about how Azure took on its biggest DDoS attack ever, and won easily

Sayan Sen — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 15:12:01 +0000

Microsoft says Azure was easily able to handle a multi-Tbps (2.4Tbps) bandwidth DDoS attack, the largest it had ever faced. This attack was more than double larger than the one it took on last year. Read more...

Hacker who commanded a 100,000+ strong bot army taken down by Ukrainian cops

Sayan Sen — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 15:04:01 +0000

A Ukraine-based hacker who created and coordinated various cyberattacks like DDoS, spamming, or brute-forcing, using his 100,000+ bots has been arrested today by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). Read more...

Cloudflare says it handled the most monstrous DDoS attack ever like a total champ

Sayan Sen — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 20:34:02 +0000

Cloudflare says it mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever with the help of its in-house DDoS protection daemon. According to its data, this massive attack brought in 17.2 million requests per second. Read more...

Wikipedia confirms website outages due to malicious DDOS attack

Hamza Jawad — Sat, 07 Sep 2019 18:16:01 +0000

Wikipedia went offline today in many countries due to a broad DDOS attack. It looks like the service seems to have been resumed in several countries, though the incident is still being investigated. Read more...

Europol targeting users of major DDoS-for-hire website with legal action

Usama Jawad — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 15:38:01 +0000

Europol is going after the 151,000 registered users of the biggest DDoS-for-hire website. The law enforcement authority has warned that these people will "face action for the damage they have caused." Read more...

Google announces measures to protect the European Union elections

Paul Hill — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 16:18:01 +0000

Google has announced measures to help bolster next year's European Union elections. The new measures will help voters get to the polling station, protect campaigns, and reveal ads data. Read more...

Cloudflare Spectrum brings DDoS protection to any TCP protocol

Gabriel Nunes — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 23:48:01 +0000

Cloudflare has announced its new Spectrum service, which extends the company's DDoS protection service to any TCP protocol, including gaming services, remote server access, and email. Read more...

Code for memcached-based DDoS attack is now public

Gabriel Nunes — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 02:24:01 +0000

The tools to perform a terabit-level DDoS attack were made available this week with a list of 17,000 IP addresses of unsecured memcached servers. The same attack was used against GitHub last week. Read more...

GitHub suffers largest DDoS attack ever recorded

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 21:30:01 +0000

The hosting service experienced a massive surge of 1.35 Tbps in traffic as part of what may be the largest DDoS attack ever conducted. The attack lasted eight minutes before being mitigated. Read more...

Steam servers experiencing issues following Summer Sale, possibly due to cyberattack

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 19:24:01 +0000

Some users are unable to properly access Steam servers during the the 2017 Summer Sale. Hacker group CyberTeam claimed responsibility and promised a full attack targeting all servers is on the way. Read more...

Bitcoin exchanges buckle after traffic load

Paul Hill — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 11:10:01 +0000

Several bitcoin exchanges came under a heavy load of traffic yesterday coinciding with wild fluctuations in the price of bitcoin. It was likely caused by eager buyers and sellers eager to profit. Read more...

Akamai's State of the Internet finds DDoS 'mega attacks' are increasing

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 10:38:01 +0000

The latest report from the content distribution company shows that the number and overall scope of distributed denial of service attacks has gone up over the last year, even if that growth has slowed. Read more...

Security researcher Brian Krebs believes to have discovered who created the Mirai botnet

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 12:02:01 +0000

Brian Krebs has been investigating for months how the Mirai botnet came to be and who's behind the infamous distributed denial of service attacks from last year. Now he thinks he has answers. Read more...

European Commission targeted in massive DDoS attack

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 10:16:01 +0000

The European Commission became the target of a massive distributed denial of service on Thursday. No data was breached, though internet service was taken out for the better part of the day. Read more...

Report shows DDoS attacks have increased by 71% in a year, hitting new records

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 12:42:01 +0000

The latest "State of the Internet" report from Akamai shows the growth in number and scope of DDoS attacks around the world. In just three months, there were 19 attacks with over 100Gbps of data. Read more...

Teen's iPhone hack gets him arrested for unleashing DDoS on 911 system

Shreyas Gandhe — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 13:16:01 +0000

A teenager from Arizona was arrested for publishing a JavaScript hack for iPhones to make 911 emergency calls, as it resulted in a DDoS on the emergency system in the Maricopa County. Read more...

Activists launch "Tech Support Hotline" for Congressmen clueless about cyber attacks

Jett Goldsmith — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 20:22:01 +0000

Activists from Fight for the Future have launched a new tech support hotline for non-technology-savvy members of Congress who are clueless about last week's DDoS attacks. Read more...

Massive DDoS attacks take down Twitter, Netflix, Reddit

Jett Goldsmith — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 19:18:01 +0000

Waves of DDoS cyber attacks have hit at least two internet service providers this morning, causing popular websites like Netflix, Twitter, and Reddit to go offline for an extended period of time. Read more...

Hacker publicly releases 'Mirai' code, which was responsible for the largest DDoS attack

Justin Luna — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 15:20:01 +0000

The source code for what is known today for launching the biggest DDoS attack has been publicly released. The disclosure spread fear among website owners, as anyone could be the next victim. Read more...

Attackers shut down 'Krebs on Security' site with over 620 gigabit per second of traffic

Christopher White — Sat, 24 Sep 2016 04:28:01 +0000

Unknown attackers launched a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against the Krebs on Security site, hitting it with over 620Gbps over a sustained period. Akamai shut the site down. Read more...

Blizzard's Battle.net services under attack by Lizard Squad

Chris Schroeder — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 21:08:01 +0000

The group that has been responsible for bringing numerous online services offline in the past couple years are up to no good again. This time, they've targeted Battle.net - is it retaliatory? Read more...

Steam's Christmas blunder was caused by a DDoS attack

Matt Brown — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 03:38:01 +0000

Valve has officially confirmed that Steam was successfully taken offline this holiday, due to a Distributed Denial of Service attack. This lead to the caching errors that displayed personal data. Read more...

Steam down on Christmas Day; Users able to log-in as other users, personal info at risk [Update]

Jack Wilkinson — Fri, 25 Dec 2015 19:08:01 +0000

Online gaming service Steam went down earlier today, following threats from a hacking collective known as SkidNP. Gamers fear a DDoS attack is behind the outage as more people begin to report issues. Read more...

'Phantom Squad' threatens Xbox Live and PSN outages over Christmas

News Staff — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 12:48:01 +0000

A newly-formed hacking group has claimed that they will attempt to take down both Xbox Live and PSN over the coming weeks, to bring the lack of cyber-security to the attention of the public. Read more...

Anonymous attack Donald Trump's hotel website

Paul Hill — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 18:26:01 +0000

Donald Trump has annoyed hackers with his remarks about Muslims. Anonymous responded to what he said by taking down the website of the New York Trump hotel website. Read more...

15-year-old British boy charged over international cyber-attacks and airline bomb hoaxes

Andy Weir — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 00:50:37 +0000

A British teenager has been charged with various offences relating to a series of cyber-attacks across four continents, as well as fake bomb threats made against US airlines on social media. Read more...