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A report analyzing data from the start of the year concludes that distributed denial-of-service attacks on Russian companies have increased 2.5 times compared to the same period last year. DDoS attacks are commonly used to extort victims with ransom demands or as a distraction for IT teams while hackers attempt to steal precious data from compromised systems.
Microsoft on Monday revealed that its Azure cloud platform mitigated a 2.4 Tbps distributed denial-of-service attack in the last week of August targeting an unnamed customer in Europe, surpassing a 2.3 Tbps attack stopped by Amazon Web Services in February 2020. "This is 140 percent higher than 2020's 1 Tbps attack and higher than any network volumetric event previously detected on Azure," Amir Dahan, senior program manager for Azure Networking, said in a post, calling it a "UDP reflection" lasting for about 10 minutes.
Microsoft claims its Azure cloud has fended off the largest DDOS attack it's detected, which clocked in at 2.4Tbit/sec. Azure's mighty DDoS-reflection powers saw off the attack, so whoever was behind it didn't deny service for the "Azure customer in Europe" that Microsoft says was the target of the attack.
The letters from the Dutch Police aim to reduce cybercrime and steer the offenders towards legal alternatives to improve their skills. On Monday, 29 Dutch nationals received letters from the police informing them that their criminal activity has been recorded and that future offenses could lead to a conviction.
Microsoft has mitigated a record 2.4 Tbps Distributed Denial-of-Service attack targeting a European Azure customer during the last week of August. "This is 140 percent higher than 2020's 1 Tbps attack and higher than any network volumetric event previously detected on Azure," said Amir Dahan, a Senior Program Manager for Azure Networking, also describing it as a User Datagram Protocol reflection attack.
Ukrainian law enforcement authorities on Monday disclosed the arrest of a hacker responsible for the creation and management of a "Powerful botnet" consisting of over 100,000 enslaved devices that was used to carry out distributed denial-of-service and spam attacks on behalf of paid customers. The Ukrainian police agency said it conducted a raid of the suspect's residence and seized their computer equipment as evidence of illegal activity.
Ukrainian police have arrested a hacker who controlled a 100,000 device botnet used to perform DDoS attacks on behalf of paid customers. The threat actor was arrested at his home in Prykarpattia where he was allegedly using the botnet to perform DDoS attacks or to support other malicious activity for his clients.
The US Department of Justice charged the admin of the WireX Android botnet for targeting an American multinational hotel chain in a distributed denial-of-service attack. Izzet Mert Ozek, the defendant, used the botnet which consisted of tens of thousands of enslaved Android devices - more than 120,000 based on the unique IP addresses observed in some WireX attacks - to target the company's online booking system website in August 2017.
Bandwidth.com has become the latest victim of distributed denial of service attacks targeting VoIP providers this month, leading to nationwide voice outages over the past few days. As Bandwidth is one of the leading telephony providers for US voice over IP companies, many other VoIP vendors reported outages over the past few days, including Twilio, Accent, DialPad, Phone.com, and RingCentral.
Data projections point to 2021 as another record-setting year on track to surpass 11 million global DDoS attacks. In the wake of Colonial Pipeline, JBS, Harris Federation, Australian broadcaster Channel Nine, CNA Financial, and several other high-profile attacks, the impact of DDoS and other cybersecurity attacks has been felt worldwide.