Microsoft says its Azure cloud platform was hit by the largest of its kind DDoS attack from a Turbo Mirai-class IoT botnet, Aisuru, harnessing over 500,000 residential IPs.
A hacktivist group posted evidence of its involvement in the X attack in the form of screenshots on a Telegram channel. It has previously used DDoS attacks to target an assortment of organizations with a strong focus on the US, UAE, Israel and Ukraine.
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.
OpenAI has attributed ChatGPT outages to a targeted distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. A suspected Russian hacktivist group Anonymous Sudan has claimed responsibility.
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.
eCommerce retailers face the most significant risk from automated malicious software, with hackers deploying advanced bad bots in nearly two-thirds of account takeover attacks.
FlexBooker, a commonly used appointment scheduling and calendar service, is apologizing to its customers after 3.7 million records appeared on a dark web hacker forum following a DDoS attack.
Yandex warded off the largest DDoS attack in history recorded at 22 million requests per second and attributed to a new botnet Meris that exploits MikroTik devices.
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.
Researchers attribute the sharp rise in DDoS attacks to malicious efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic when most consumers became dependent on online services while workers started working from home.
