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DDoS attacks decreased in 2021, still above pre-pandemic levels. As part of NexusGuard's "DDoS Statistical Report for 2021", it was found that despite the rate of DDoS attacks falling from 2020 to 2021, the number of attacks still outweigh those experienced before the COVID-19 pandemic began, as the total number of DDoS attacks were reduced by 13.3% from 2020 to 2021, according to the DDoS protection company.
Russia's banking and financial services company Sberbank is being targeted in a wave of unprecedented hacker attacks. Sberbank is Russia's largest financial company and the third-largest in Europe, with total assets counting over $570 billion.
Italy's Computer Security Incident Response Team has disclosed recent DDoS attacks against crucial government sites in the country over the past couple of days. DDoS is an attack that aims to deplete a server's available resources, making it unable to respond to legitimate user requests and rendering the sites it hosts inaccessible.
DDoS attacks are an underappreciated residual risk for most organizations today. While most people are concerned about ransomware, it typically takes a ransomware attacks months to develop, whereas DDoS attacks are very sudden and may result in a complete business outage.
Cloudflare is reporting a large DDoS attack against an unnamed company "Operating a crypto launchpad.". While this isn't the largest application-layer attack we've seen, it is the largest we've seen over HTTPS. HTTPS DDoS attacks are more expensive in terms of required computational resources because of the higher cost of establishing a secure TLS encrypted connection.
A DDoS attack works by several machines repeatedly flooding servers of a website with excessive requests in a short span of time, such that the servers run out of their allotted bandwidth, and become unresponsive. More recently, Russian hacktivist group "Killnet" has launched DDoS attacks on Romanian government sites.
A DDoS attack works by several machines repeatedly flooding servers of a website with excessive requests in a short span of time, such that the servers run out of their allotted bandwidth, and become unresponsive. Conducting DDoS attacks is a criminal offense in most jurisdictions.
More recently, Russian hacktivist group "Killnet" has launched DDoS attacks on Romanian government sites. Conducting DDoS attacks is a criminal offense in most jurisdictions.
The Romanian national cyber security and incident response team, DNSC, has issued a statement about a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks targeting several public websites managed by the state entities. DNSC is now collaborating with other authorities in the country to map these attacks and mitigate their effect.
Ukraine's computer emergency response team has published an announcement warning of ongoing DDoS attacks targeting pro-Ukraine sites and the government web portal. The threat actors, who at this time remain unknown, are compromising WordPress sites and injecting malicious JavaScript code to perform the attacks.