News
Police infiltrate shady DDoS-as-a-service marketplace DigitalStress
Officers "covertly and overtly accessed" communication platforms to spy on would-be attackers' conversations
Outages
Is the Wayback Machine down? Internet Archive suffers mysterious outages
Treasure trove of altered or deleted websites brought offline after power cut as it fights legal appeal against decision which forced the removal of 500,000 books
DDoS
‘Evil’ botnet unleashes ‘record-breaking’ DDoS attack
“This could be a new era for packet rate attacks: with botnets possibly capable of issuing billions of packets per second. It could seriously challenge how anti-DDoS infrastructures are built and scaled."
DDoS
France fends off unprecedented DDoS attacks as it gears up for Olympian challenge
Low tech, highly inconvenient cyber assault comes just weeks after Ukraine cooperation deal
DDoS
ChatGPT says major outages may be due to DDoS attacks
Incident follows record HTTP2 "Rapid Reset" attack warnings as well as CISA note on exploitation of Service Location Protocol vulnerability for DDoS purposes.
DDoS
Most of the internet exposed to HTTP/2 zero day, as hyperscalers report record DDoS attacks
"Any enterprise or individual that is serving an HTTP-based workload to the Internet may be at risk from this attack"
Microsoft
A triple barrage of mystery DDoS attacks knocked Microsoft services including Azure, Intune offline
Back in 2021 Microsoft boasted of shielding a customer from a 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack originating from 70,000 sources. It has not shared such detail on this successful incident that it its services...
Cybersecurity
Mitel phone software abused to launch unique form of DDoS attack
Attackers are using a record-breaking Mitel DDoS attack vector in the wild.
Cybersecurity
European Azure customer hit by record 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack
Microsoft shrugs off attack