Security News

Mantis botnet behind the record-breaking DDoS attack in June
2022-07-14 15:53

The record-breaking distributed denial-of-service attack that Cloudflare mitigated last month originated from a new botnet called Mantis, which is currently described as "The most powerful botnet to date." The previous record was held by Mēris botnet, which launched an attack that spiked at 21.8 million requests per second.

Russian hacktivists take down Norway govt sites in DDoS attacks
2022-06-30 14:31

Norway's National Security Authority published a statement yesterday warning that some of the country's most important websites and online services are being rendered inaccessible due to distributed denial of service attacks. DDoS attacks are a special type of cyberattack that causes internet servers to be overwhelmed by many requests and garbage traffic, rendering the hosted sites and services inaccessible for legitimate visitors and users.

‘Killnet’ Adversary Pummels Lithuania with DDoS Attacks Over Blockade
2022-06-28 12:17

Russia-linked cyber collective Killnet has claimed responsibility for DDoS attacks Monday on the Lithuanian government and other entities in the Baltic country over closure of transit routes within the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, according to researchers. On Monday, Lithuania's National Cyber Security Center under the Ministry of National Defense warned of intense and ongoing DDoS attacks against Lithuania's Secure National Data Transfer Network as well as other governmental institutions and private companies in the country.

Lithuania warns of rise in DDoS attacks against government sites
2022-06-23 16:00

The National Cyber Security Center of Lithuania has issued a public warning about a steep increase in distributed denial of service attacks directed against public authorities in the country. DDoS is a special type of cyberattack that causes internet servers to be overwhelmed by a large number of requests and garbage traffic, rendering the hosted sites and services inaccessible for legitimate visitors and users.

Cloudflare says it thwarted record-breaking HTTPS DDoS flood
2022-06-14 23:44

Cloudflare said it this month staved off another record-breaking HTTPS-based distributed denial-of-service attack, this one significantly larger than the previous largest DDoS attack that occurred only two months ago. In April, the biz said it mitigated an HTTPS DDoS attack that reached a peak of 15.3 million requests-per-second.

Cloudflare Saw Record-Breaking DDoS Attack Peaking at 26 Million Request Per Second
2022-06-14 23:16

Cloudflare on Tuesday disclosed that it had acted to prevent a record-setting 26 million request per second distributed denial-of-service attack last week, making it the largest HTTPS DDoS attack detected to date. The web performance and security company said the attack was directed against an unnamed customer website using its Free plan and emanated from a "Powerful" botnet of 5,067 devices, with each node generating approximately 5,200 RPS at peak.

Man gets two years in prison for selling 200,000 DDoS hits
2022-06-14 19:29

A 33-year-old Illinois man has been sentenced to two years in prison for running websites that paying customers used to launch more than 200,000 distributed denial-of-services attacks. Gatrel, was convicted of owning and operating two websites - DownThem.org and AmpNode.com - that sold DDoS attacks.

Owner of ‘DownThem’ DDoS service gets 2 years in prison
2022-06-14 15:40

An Illinois man was sentenced to two years in prison for operating a distributed denial of service platform that allowed threat actors to conduct over 200,000 attacks. The sentenced man, Matthew Gatrel, 33, had created and operated the websites "Downthem.org" and "Ampnode.com." The former sold subscriptions to a powerful DDoS arsenal, and the latter was a bulletproof hosting service that also aided customers in launching their own DDoS attacks.

Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking HTTPS DDoS attack
2022-06-14 14:31

Internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare said today that it mitigated a 26 million request per second distributed denial-of-service attack, the largest HTTPS DDoS attack detected to date. The threat actor behind it likely used hijacked servers and virtual machines seeing that the attack originated from Cloud Service Providers instead of weaker Internet of Things devices from compromised Residential Internet Service Providers.

Week in review: Macro-less Office documents zero-day bug, FluBot takedown, growing DDoS threats
2022-06-05 08:00

Zero-day bug exploited by attackers via macro-less Office documentsA newly numbered Windows zero-day vulnerability is being exploited in the wild via specially crafted Office documents, security researchers are warning. DDoS threats growing in sophistication, size, and frequencyCorero Network Security has published the latest edition of its annual DDoS Threat Intelligence Report that compiles the trends, observations, predictions, and recommendations based on DDoS attacks against Corero customers during 2021.