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Wynncraft, one of the largest Minecraft servers, was recently hit by a 2.5 Tbps distributed denial-of-service attack. It was a multi-vector attack that lasted for about two minutes and consisted of UDP and TCP floods packets attempting to overwhelm the server and keep out hundreds of thousands of players, DDoS mitigation company Cloudflare says.
The pro-Russian hacktivist group 'KillNet' is claiming large-scale distributed denial-of-service attacks against websites of several major airports in the U.S., making them unaccessible.The DDoS attacks have overwhelmed the servers hosting these sites with garbage requests, making it impossible for travelers to connect and get updates about their scheduled flights or book airport services.
The pro-Russian hacktivist group 'KillNet' has carried out large-scale DDoS attacks against several U.S. airports' websites, taking many of them offline. The DDoS attacks have overwhelmed the servers hosting these sites with garbage requests, making it impossible for travelers to connect and get updates about their scheduled flights or book airport services.
A quickly expanding botnet called Chaos is targeting and infecting Windows and Linux devices to use them for cryptomining and launching DDoS attacks. Even though it mainly propagates by attacking devices unpatched against various security vulnerabilities and SSH brute-forcing, Chaos will also use stolen SSH keys to hijack more devices.
According to Gcore, in 2022, the number and volume of DDoS attacks will roughly double compared to 2021. Rew, which business sectors are being attacked more often than others in 2022?
Cybersecurity company Imperva has disclosed that it mitigated a distributed denial-of-service attack with a total of over 25.3 billion requests on June 27, 2022. The "Strong attack," which targeted an unnamed Chinese telecommunications company, is said to have lasted for four hours and peaked at 3.9 million requests per second.
Internet security company Imperva has announced its DDoS mitigation solution has broken a new record, defending against a single attack that sent over 25.3 billion requests to one of its customers. The DDoS attack unfolded on June 27, 2022, peaking at 3.9 million requests per second and averaging 1.8 million RPS. While this pales compared to the record-breaking attack that Cloudflare mitigated in June, which topped at 26 million RPS, the duration in Imperva's case was unusually long.
Akamai says it has absorbed the largest-ever publicly known distributed denial of service attack - an assault against an unfortunate Eastern European organization that went beyond 700 million packets per second. For comparison, the July attack peaked at 659.6 Mpps with the organization coming under attack 75 times at its primary data center.
A new distributed denial-of-service attack that took place on Monday, September 12, has broken the previous record that Akamai recorded recently in July. The cybersecurity and cloud services company Akamai reports that the recent attack appears to originate from the same threat actor, meaning that the operators are in the process of empowering their swarm further.
Radware released a report revealing that the number of malicious DDoS attacks climbed by 203% compared to the first six months of 2021. This Help Net Security video provides information about the rise of DDoS activity launched by patriotic hacktivists.