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Police infiltrate shady DDoS-as-a-service marketplace DigitalStress

Officers "covertly and overtly accessed" communication platforms to spy on would-be attackers' conversations

Joe Fay July 23, 2024

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

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 08, 2024

‘Evil’ botnet unleashes ‘record-breaking’ DDoS attack

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‘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."

Jasper Hamill July 05, 2024

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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

Joe Fay March 12, 2024

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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.

The Stack November 09, 2023

Most of the internet exposed to HTTP/2 zero day, as hyperscalers report record DDoS attacks

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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"

The Stack October 10, 2023

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...

Edward Targett June 18, 2023