The New Zealand stock exchange (NZX) website has gone down again in what appears to be the latest disruption caused by cyber attackers. The NZX website has been targeted by repeated distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks over the last week, beginning last Tuesday. Such attacks disrupt service by saturating the network with significant volumes of internet traffic, and have caused…
Up until recently, Docker servers misconfigured and left exposed online have been historically targeted with cryptocurrency-mining malware, which has helped criminal groups generate huge profits by hijacking someone else’s cloud resources. However, in a report published this week, security researchers from Trend Micro have discovered what appears to be the first organized and persistent series of attacks against Docker servers…
After the death of George Floyd and the subsequent protests across the U.S., cyberattacks on advocacy groups spiked by an astonishing 1,120 times. It’s unclear who is behind the attacks, but they included attempts to neuter anti-racist organizations’ freedom of speech. The data comes from Cloudflare, a Silicon Valley company that protects a vast number of websites from distributed denial…
New vulnerability in DNS server software can be leveraged for DDoS attacks with an 1620x amplification factor. A team of academics from Israel has disclosed today details about NXNSAttack, a vulnerability in DNS servers that can be abused to launch DDoS attacks of massive proportions. According to the research team, NXNSAttack impacts recursive DNS servers and the process of DNS…
The scourge of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has been a major concern for businesses and governments for more than two decades. First reported in 1996, this is a destructive and ever-evolving vector of cyber raids that knocks electronic networks offline by flooding them with the traffic they can’t handle. Not only is DDoS a way for hacktivists to manifest protest…
A previously unknown SQL injection vulnerability in the Sophos XG Firewall gave hackers access to customers’ local usernames and hashed passwords for several days. The Abingdon, U.K.-based platform security vendor said it learned late Wednesday of an attack against its physical and virtual XG Firewall units when a suspicious field value was discovered inside the device’s management interface. The attack…
US Health Agencies Are Fending off DDoS Attacks and Disinformation Campaigns in the Midst of a Pandemic Unfettered by social distancing measures or economic concerns, cyber threat actors are taking full advantage of opportunities created by the coronavirus pandemic. United States health agencies are being tested by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and social media disinformation campaigns as they…
There has been a 168% increase in DDoS attacks in Q4 2019, compared with Q4 2018, and a 180% increase overall in 2019 vs. 2018, according to Neustar. The company saw DDoS attacks across all size categories increase in 2019, with attacks sized 5 Gbps and below seeing the largest growth. These small-scale attacks made up more than three quarters…
Australian banking and financial institutions received extortion emails threatening them of possible distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against them. To avert this situation the extortioners demanded a ransom that needs to be paid in the form of Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency. The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) is aware of this extortion campaign and issued threat advice…
The promises are enticing and the price is unbeatable; after all – who can beat the price of ‘free’ ? As service availability becomes more and more of a customer concern, it has become common for internet service providers (ISPs), content distribution networks (CDNs) and public cloud providers to offer ‘DDoS protection’ for free, as part of their service bundle….
