18-Year-Old Charged for Hacking Into 60,000 Users’ Accounts
An 18-year-old Wisconsin teenager has been accused by federal authorities of a cyberattack that compromised 60,000 user accounts at the sports betting website DraftKings last year.
A "credential stuffing attack" was allegedly planned by Joseph...
SLP Protocol Vulnerability Lets Attackers Launch Powerful 2,200x DDoS Attack
The Service Location Protocol (SLP) has been found to have a new reflective Denial-of-Service (DoS) amplification vulnerability.
Threat actors can exploit this vulnerability to execute extensive DDoS attacks with a staggering amplification of 2,200X.
Researchers at...
Record Breaking 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack With Packet rate of 340 million Pps
Cloudflare has successfully mitigated the largest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack ever recorded, peaking at a staggering 3.8 terabits per second (Tbps) with a packet rate of 340 million packets per second (Pps)....
Largest HTTPS DDOS Attack Recorded By Google with 46 Million Requests Per Second
It was reported that Google has been targeted with the largest DDoS attack in history against one of its customers. An attack on one of the Google Cloud Armor customers occurred on June 1st,...
Windows Server Running SMB over QUIC Let Attacker Launch DoS Attacks
QUIC, created by Google, is a modern transport layer protocol aimed at enhancing connection reliability and security while addressing latency and packet loss issues utilizing UDP.
Microsoft's QUIC implementation is known as MsQuic, utilized for...
Detecting & Classifying DDoS Attacks Using Machine Learning, New Research
A new research study has unveiled promising developments in the detection and classification of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks through the application of advanced machine learning techniques.
This breakthrough comes at a critical time...
Cisco Identity Services Engine Flaw Let Attacker Trigger DoS Condition
Cisco addressed high-impact vulnerability CVE-2023-20243 in the Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), allowing attackers to stop processing Radius packets.
This vulnerability, with a base score of 8.6, was found during the resolution of a Cisco TAC...
Police Arrests 19-year Teen for DDoS Attack on Dutch Government Websites
Recently, on Friday, April 10, 2020, A 19-year old teen from Breda, Netherlands, was arrested for allegedly taking out Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks on two Dutch government websites (MijnOverheid.nl & Overheid.nl) to lockdown...
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Russia Reports DDoS Attack Disrupting Telegram and WhatsApp
Russian users of popular messaging apps Telegram and WhatsApp experienced significant disruptions, which were attributed to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
The state communications monitoring service confirmed the incident, stating that the attack had been...
20.5 Million DDoS Attacks, With One Exceeding 4.8 Billion Packets
With a record-breaking 20.5 million Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks prevented in the first quarter alone, a 358% rise over the same period last year, Cloudflare has reported a historic spike in cyberattacks to start...
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Microsoft Teams To Block Screen Capture During Meetings
Microsoft has announced a new "Prevent Screen Capture" feature for Teams that will block unauthorized screenshots during meetings.
The feature, scheduled for worldwide rollout...