Cybercriminals could run DDoS attacks on Next Generation 911 systems by using anonymized phones to issue repeated emergency calls that cannot be blocked by the network.
DDoS attacks on IoT devices continue to grow with report showing an increasing trend in using WS-Discovery (WSD) to amplify the effectiveness of attacks by up to 95%.
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.
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.
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.
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.
South African Banking Risk Information Centre warned that banks in the country had been experiencing repeated DDoS attacks and ransom notes were delivered to a number of staff email addresses.
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.
OpenAI has attributed ChatGPT outages to a targeted distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. A suspected Russian hacktivist group Anonymous Sudan has claimed responsibility.
