How can your organisation defend against constant DDoS attacks? Think what you can’t see can’t hurt you? A new report from Corero Network Security has shown that, when it comes to DDoS attacks, this is definitely not the case. The report suggests that the barrage of short, low volume DDoS attacks – which often go undetected by IT security staff…
When domain name system services supplier Dyn got hit with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack last October, waves of traffic overwhelmed the company’s network and disrupted access to the internet for large swathes of the United States and Europe. The Dyn perpetrators had successfully orchestrated one of the biggest-ever DDoS attacks, powered by a botnet of Internet of Things devices. Whoever was responsible for the Dyn attack showed how easy it was…
PayPal, Spotify, Twitter, Airbnb, the Sony PlayStation Network – what is the connection? These were some of the sites and services that were disrupted as a result of the DDoS attack on Dyn, the cloud DNS provider, last October. The attack is believed to have been caused by the Mirai botnet, which takes advantage of unprotected IoT devices such as…
UK authorities have charged an eighteen-year-old with running a DDoS booter service that was used to launch DDoS attacks on legitimate businesses across the world. According to authorities, the teenager’s name is Jack Chappell, 18, of Stockport, a small town southeast of Manchester, UK. Investigators say Chappell created malware that he installed on devices around the world. He used this…
Small businesses have long been the lifeblood of the U.S. economy, creating more than half of the nation’s jobs, spawning new ideas, generating 54% of U.S. sales and fortifying communities across the country. This momentum shows no signs of slowing down, with some predicting 40% of Americans will be self-employed by the year 2020. Websites, stores and applications will be…
It is imperative that cloud users ensure that their vendor(s) of choice can provide the visibility and protection they need. Cloud adoption continues to accelerate as businesses look to reap the cost, scale and flexibility benefits that are on offer. Whether a business uses a large, well-known public cloud operator or one of the smaller, more focused, specialist cloud /…
It’s been a rough morning for Ubisoft servers, as folks trying to login to Rainbow Six Siege, Ghost Recon Wildlands, For Honor and other popular online titles haven’t had a very high success rate. After initially announcing some general server issues close to 10 a.m., Ubisoft announced officially via Twitter that they are monitoring a DDoS attack. It doesn’t appear…
The Armada Collective hacking group has issued a ransom demand of approximately $315,000 to seven South Korean banks, threatening to launch distributed denial of service attacks against each of their organizations. The threat came just days after fellow South Korean firm NAYANA negotiated a record $1.01 million ransom payment on June 14 to remedy an unrelated ransomware attack that locked up its…
A massive cyberattack that freezes computers and demands a ransom to open them has hit companies in the U.S. and elsewhere around the world today, U.S. officials and private cybersecurity analysts said. Among the American targets are the giant Merck pharmaceutical company in New Jersey; the Mondelez food company, which produces Oreo cookies; and a major multinational law firm, DLA…
The $1 million ransom payment paid last week by South Korean web hosting company Nayana has sparked new extortion attempts on South Korean companies. According to local media, seven banks have received emails that asked the organizations to pay ransoms of nearly $315,000 or suffer downtime via DDoS attacks. Only five of the seven targets are publicly known, which are…
