Google says it successfully fended off a 2.5 Tbps denial-of-service attack in 2017, making it the biggest such attack to date
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Flightradar24 Suffers Repeated Cyberattacks
Popular aviation website Flightradar24 admits three cyberattacks in a two day period, after services knocked offline for hours
New Zealand Calls In Spy Agency To Deal With Exchange Attacks
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
Musk Confirms ‘Serious Attack’ On Tesla By Russian Hackers
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
New Zealand Stock Exchange Restored After Four Day DDoS Attack
NSX stock exchange in New Zealand restored after being offline for four days, due to a prolonged DDoS cyberattack from ‘offshore’
New Zealand Stock Exchange Suffers DDoS Cyberattack
Dress rehearsal for attack on larger exchange? Two days outage for New Zealand’s NZX, following ‘offshore’ DDoS cyberattack
Amazon Records Record 2.3Tbps Denial-Of-Service Attack
Amazon says its AWS Shield mitigated a DDoS attack peaking at 2.3Tbps, far larger than previous assaults, amidst increasing cloud security threats
Dutch Police Shut Down DDoS Services
As people around the world turn to online services during the pandemic, hackers seek profits from denial-of-service and ransomware attacks
Microsoft And Others Takedown Botnet Necurs
One of the world’s largest botnets that was responsible for multiple scams and infected over nine million computers, has been taken down
Wikipedia Website Knocked Offline By DDoS Attack
Outage for Wikipedia website last week after DDoS attack on the online encyclopaedia
Small-scale DDoS Attacks On The Rise – Neustar
Under the radar small-scale DDoS attacks have risen significantly, but the ability of companies to identify attacks remains a concern
Far-Right Website 8chan Offline After Cloudflare Withdraws Services
Site goes offline following involvement in shootings in Texas, with Cloudflare accusing it of ‘directly inspiring tragic events’
Telegram CEO: DDoS Attack Timed To Disrupt Hong Kong Protests
Telegram’s CEO says cyber attack against Telegram came mostly from Chinese IP addresses
Hackers Overcome University Cyber Defences In Hours
Ethical hackers take down university cyber defences and obtain valuable data in just two hours
Police Figures Cite Cybercrime, Digital Data As Top Concern
An exponential surge in data and a decentralised structure are making cyber-policing increasingly difficult
FBI Seizes Domain To Thwart VPNFilter Attack On Ukraine
DDoS denial. Feds seize control of domain that communicates with home routers infected with malware
Criminals Arrested As Webstresser DDoS Website Taken Down
National Crime Agency involved in international operation to take down website behind four million cyber attacks
GitHub Briefly Taken Offline In Largest-Ever DDoS Attack
The popular code-hosting site was taken offline for 10 minutes after being targeted by a massive 1.35Tbps DDoS attack
UK National Lottery Hit By Peak-Time DDoS Attack
The National Lottery’s website and mobile app were taken offline for 90 minutes, blocking last-minute online ticket sales
Botnet Launches DDoS Attacks From Thousands Of Android Devices
The WireX botnet used hundreds of infected Android apps on Google Play and elsewhere to launch attack traffic against content providers
Ransomware & Humans Are Silicon Readers’ Biggest Cybersecurity Concerns
Recent events mean ransomware is a hot topic among our readers as DDoS fears ease, but humans are still seen as a vulnerability
Cloudflare Pulls Protection From Far Right Daily Stormer Website
Cloudflare CEO said it was a difficult decision but US civil liberties group hits out at tech firms for clampdown
Poll: What Is Your Biggest Cybersecurity Concern?
Cybersecurity is never far from the IT conversation, but what do you fear the most?
CyberTeam Hacker Group Claims Responsiblity for Scuppering Skype With DDoS Attack
Microsoft remains tight-lipped on the cause of the Skype outage over the past two days
Botnets Target FCC Website Over Net Neutrality, Researchers Say
Researchers claim bots are spamming US regulator website over net neutrality rule change proposal
British Youth Receives Two Year Sentence For DDoS Attacks
Adam Mudd admitted to running the ‘Titanium Stresser’ DDoS attack tool out of his bedroom in Hertfordshire
Mirai Botnet Hits US College With Massive 54 Hour Attack
Mirai returns (or at least a variant of it) warns researchers at Imperva Incapsula who witnessed the attack
Deutsche Telekom Cyber Attack ‘Mastermind’ Arrested At London Airport
The police plan to extradite him to Germany where he could face up to ten years in prison
Lloyds Internet Banking Outage ‘Caused By DDoS’
Lloyds Banking Group IT outage was the result of a DDoS staged by cybercriminals
Journalist Brian Krebs ‘Unmasks’ Mirai Botnet Developer
The IoT botnet code was used to power an attack that knocked Twitter and Netflix offline last year