Google says it successfully fended off a 2.5 Tbps denial-of-service attack in 2017, making it the biggest such attack to date

Google says it successfully fended off a 2.5 Tbps denial-of-service attack in 2017, making it the biggest such attack to date
Popular aviation website Flightradar24 admits three cyberattacks in a two day period, after services knocked offline for hours
New Zealand has called in its GCSB intelligence agency to work with the country’s stock exchange after denial-of-service attacks continued for a fourth day in a row
You couldn’t make it up. Russian hacker arrested for offering Tesla worker $1 million to install specifically-designed malware onto car maker’s systems
NSX stock exchange in New Zealand restored after being offline for four days, due to a prolonged DDoS cyberattack from ‘offshore’
Dress rehearsal for attack on larger exchange? Two days outage for New Zealand’s NZX, following ‘offshore’ DDoS cyberattack
Amazon says its AWS Shield mitigated a DDoS attack peaking at 2.3Tbps, far larger than previous assaults, amidst increasing cloud security threats
As people around the world turn to online services during the pandemic, hackers seek profits from denial-of-service and ransomware attacks
One of the world’s largest botnets that was responsible for multiple scams and infected over nine million computers, has been taken down
Outage for Wikipedia website last week after DDoS attack on the online encyclopaedia
Under the radar small-scale DDoS attacks have risen significantly, but the ability of companies to identify attacks remains a concern
Site goes offline following involvement in shootings in Texas, with Cloudflare accusing it of ‘directly inspiring tragic events’
Telegram’s CEO says cyber attack against Telegram came mostly from Chinese IP addresses
Ethical hackers take down university cyber defences and obtain valuable data in just two hours
An exponential surge in data and a decentralised structure are making cyber-policing increasingly difficult
DDoS denial. Feds seize control of domain that communicates with home routers infected with malware
National Crime Agency involved in international operation to take down website behind four million cyber attacks
The popular code-hosting site was taken offline for 10 minutes after being targeted by a massive 1.35Tbps DDoS attack
The National Lottery’s website and mobile app were taken offline for 90 minutes, blocking last-minute online ticket sales
The WireX botnet used hundreds of infected Android apps on Google Play and elsewhere to launch attack traffic against content providers
Recent events mean ransomware is a hot topic among our readers as DDoS fears ease, but humans are still seen as a vulnerability
Cloudflare CEO said it was a difficult decision but US civil liberties group hits out at tech firms for clampdown
Cybersecurity is never far from the IT conversation, but what do you fear the most?
Microsoft remains tight-lipped on the cause of the Skype outage over the past two days
Researchers claim bots are spamming US regulator website over net neutrality rule change proposal
Adam Mudd admitted to running the ‘Titanium Stresser’ DDoS attack tool out of his bedroom in Hertfordshire
Mirai returns (or at least a variant of it) warns researchers at Imperva Incapsula who witnessed the attack
The police plan to extradite him to Germany where he could face up to ten years in prison
Lloyds Banking Group IT outage was the result of a DDoS staged by cybercriminals
The IoT botnet code was used to power an attack that knocked Twitter and Netflix offline last year