Russian hackers have claimed responsibility for recent DDoS attacks against NATO that disrupted a number of its operations including earthquake relief efforts for the Turkish-Syrian earthquake.
Customers affected by an Azure outage on July 30 were likely trying to access it during a newly confirmed DDoS attack, which Microsoft says was exacerbated by an error in the implementation of their automated defense systems.
For nearly eight-hours, AWS DNS servers were hit by a sustained DDoS attack. The servers were essentially jammed such that their basic mitigations appeared to have little or no effect.
Imperva's Q2 2017 Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report highlights a disturbing new DDoS attack trend of repeat assaults and increased assault intensity.
A10 Networks found an increase in DDoS attacks during the COVID-19 pandemic as attackers exploited new DDoS tools, 5G networks, and the increasing number of connected devices.
DDoS extortion gangs returned and made new ransom demands as Bitcoin price surged. Four out five Radware customers who received the threats experienced intense DDoS attacks.
A petition was issued to block Google’s proposed merger with Fitbit as it will give the company access to health data from fitness devices of 28 million customers.
New papers reveal the National Security Agency (NSA) regularly purchases internet data about Americans from private data brokers, including categories that could normally only be obtained via a court order.
Declassified report reveals 2016 Wikileaks breach of CIA hacking tools was due to the agency’s focus on developing cyber weapons and a systemic lack of access control.
The database leak incident comes as DeepSeek is experiencing an amazing period of rapid success, but has also been tripped up by several other security issues in quick succession. The chat history exposure is joined by a DDoS and jailbreak issues that could undermine trust.
