Port of London hit by DDoS
The Port of London Authority has become the latest victim of a cyberattack that caused the forced shut down of its website, the company confirmed on May 24th, 2022. Check Point…
Enemy Bot involved in DDoS Exortion
Fortinet reseaechers have discovered a new DDoS botnet, dubbed Enemybot, that targetting routers and web servers by exploiting known vulnerabilities. This botnet attributed to cyber threat group Keksec involving DDoS…
Middlebox – DDoS New Attack Vector
Akamai researchers began observing multiple DDoS attack campaigns against Akamai customers that had included SYN flooding and high volumes of traffic: up to 11 Gbps at 1.5 million packets per…
AT&T Under Bot Attack
Unpatched, old vulnerabilities in networking devices have allowed a noxious malware to infect thousands of AT&T customers in the U.S. The malware basically functions as a backdoor, one that could…
Abcbot in Action Against Linux
A new evolving botnet called "Abcbot" that has been observed in the wild with worm-like propagation features to infect Linux systems and launch DDoS attacks against targets. It equipped with…
Pink Botnet… And It’s too Pink
A huge botnet, tracked as Pink, that already infected over 1.6 million devices. The botnet was created to launch DDoS attacks and to insert advertisements in the legitimate HTTP traffic…
Black Storm Attack
A newly identified threat coined Black Storm could potentially wreak havoc on communications service provider networks. In typical DDoS amplification attack, those behind the attack rely on DNS servers or…
RuNet’s Biggest DDoS Problem
A new distributed DDoS botnet that kept hammering Russian internet giant Yandex for the past month, the attack peaking at the unprecedented rate of 21.8 million requests per second. The…