Hackers descended on the French city of Lille this week to participate in a live bug bounty event, hosted by European platform YesWeHack. Four organizations participated in the event, which took place on Wednesday and Thursday (January 28-29), as part of the 2020 Forum International de la Cybersécurité (FIC), an annual conference and trade show. Companies taking part in the…
Introduction Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are one of the powerful cyber weapons threat actors use today. We often hear about a website being “brought down by attackers,” and in most cases, a DDoS attack is the main cause behind this failure. A DDoS attack works by using multiple exploited machines as a source to attack network traffic. Each of these…
The Greek government said Friday that the official state websites of the prime minister, the national police and fire service and several important ministries were briefly disabled by a cyberattack but have been restored. Government spokesman Stelios Petsas said early Friday that the distributed denial-of-service or DDoS attack “led to the malfunction of certain websites.” He said “countermeasures” had been…
An American businessman who co-founded a cybersecurity company has admitted to hiring criminals to carry out cyber-attacks against others. Tucker Preston, of Macon, Georgia, confessed to having paid threat actors to launch a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks between December 2015 and February 2016. DDoS attacks prevent a website from functioning by bombarding it with so much junk internet traffic that…
A man in the US who co-founded a service to protect sites from cyber-attackers has pleaded guilty to launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Tucker Preston is co-founder of BackConnect, a cyber-security firm that claimed to be “the new industry standard in DDoS mitigation”. However, he was accused of arranging DDoS attacks targeting an unnamed firm. A court document…
Hackers target businesses with malware, for the sake of disrupting their operations, experts claim. A third of all reported incidents against businesses were caused by ransomware, destructive malware and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, according to cloud-delivered endpoint protection firm CrowdStrike. The company’s latest cybersecurity report, argues that cybercriminals are increasingly seeing business disruption as their main attack objective….
Less overt than conventional military actions, cyberattacks can have dangerous consequences – especially when they target critical infrastructure systems controlled by the private sector. Iran and other nations have waged a stealth cyberwar against the United States for at least the past decade, largely targeting not the government itself but, rather, critical infrastructure companies. This threat to the private sector…
US warns that cyberattacks could be part of Iran’s plans as tensions rise. This is what Iran’s current offensive cyber capabilities look like. Tensions between the United States and Iran are raised after the killing of Iranian IRGC-Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani via a US drone strike while he was in Iraq. Iranian leaders have vowed to retaliate against the…
If security incidents in the past few years are any indication, cybersecurity professionals face a bumpy road ahead. While some IT security chiefs are prepared to hang up their boots, many are almost certain their organization is under attack from hackers but they haven’t yet learned of it. A Bitdefender survey of more than 6,000 infosec professionals in large organizations…
DNS amplification attacks continue to dominate distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, while mobile devices make up a larger share of traffic. The number of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks rose 86% in the third quarter compared to a year ago, with amplification attacks using the domain name system (DNS) remaining the most popular technique for attacking targets. DNS amplification attacks accounted for…
