DDoS
DDoS attack on New Zealand Stock Market
A DDoS Attack launched on the New Zealand Stock Market reportedly disrupted the stock exchange services for the second day running. But the good news is that the connectivity was restored for the investors within no time, as IT staff of the trading services were proactively prepared for such attacks. Cybersecurity Insiders has learnt that […]
Amazon defends 2.3 Tbps high volume DDoS Cyber Attack in the history
Amazon Web Services has made it official that its servers which host several websites witnessed a high volume Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in February this year which might probably be the largest in the company history. AWS Shield, which defends the entire Amazon data centers from DDoS attacks has endorsed the news and […]
Telecom operators in North America hit by DDoS Cyber Attack
Telecom operators in North America were reportedly hit by a Distributed Denial of Services Cyberattack on Monday afternoon in what is believed to be touted as the largest cyber-attack launched on the telecom operators of America to date. The list of the companies offering cell phone services and which have been targeted included T-Mobile, Metro […]
Minnesota has witnessed a surge in Cyber Attacks
Minnesota is witnessing a surge in cyberattacks as hackers are trying to induce political unrest and pressure on the law enforcement after the death of George Floyd on May 25th, 2020. But Minnesota’s Security Operations Center says that all the attacks launched on the government infrastructure of the state have been thwarted or neutralized after […]
DDoS attack on Whiskey Auctioning Firm
A UK based whiskey auctioning firm named ‘Whisky Auctioneer’ had to shut down the auctioning of beverages on Monday this week which includes a rare whiskey named Macallan sale. And the decision was taken due to a Distributed denial of attack(DDoS) on its auctioning website and database. Highly placed sources say that the officials were […]
Cyber Attack news trending on Google
Finastra, a London based technology solutions providing company has issued a press statement yesterday that it is shutting down some of its critical servers due to a cyberattack that targeted it on Thursday. Although the company hasn’t stated the details of the attack variant in its public statement, its incident response team is reported to […]
US Politician Katie Hill in news for launching DDoS Cyber Attack on an opponent
FBI arrested a 32-year old man named Jan Dam hailing from California for launching DDoS Cyber Attacks on a Congressional candidate’s website in April- May 2018- eventually paving way for the win of Katie Hill. As the accusations are proved, apparently Dam will face a 10 years Federal imprisonment. Therefore, this reminds us of the […]
DDoS Cyber Attack on Iran’s Internet and Telecom sector
On Saturday last week, Iran’s Telecom Sector witnessed a Distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) which could have easily disrupted 25% of Internet services operating in the region. But the good news is that the cyber teams acted upon the cyber threat on an immediate note which eventually averted a digital massacre from taking place […]
Boss of Cybersecurity Firm launches DDoS Cyber Attacks on other companies
A co-founder of a Cybersecurity firm is said to have admitted to committing a cybercrime of hiring hackers to carry out cyberattacks against other companies. The culprit in a discussion is Tucker Preston from Georgia who confessed before the legal attorney that he hired threat actors to launch Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks between […]
DDoS Attacks rise by 30% in 3Q 2019
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks rose to 30% by the 3Q of 2019 and this was revealed in a study by Russia based Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky. The security firm claims that the latest recorded numbers have doubled when compared to the same previous year and were primarily witnessed due to a spike in malicious […]
