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Pro-Russian Actors Initiated A DDoS Attack Against Canadian Organizations

The Canadian government, banking, and transportation industries have recently been the targets of many distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.This criminal activity is linked...

Microsoft Confirms Hacking of Outlook & OneDrive – Layer 7 DDoS Attacks

Recently, it's been confirmed by Microsoft that the current outage problems experienced by the following services of Microsoft were due to intentional Layer 7...

Russian IT Guy Jailed for DDoSing Government Websites

According to reports from the FSB (Federal Security Service) Department’s Press Service in Rostov Region, Yevgeny Kotikov, an IT specialist, was sentenced to three...

FBI Seized 13 Websites that Offered DDoS-for-hire Services

The FBI has been coordinating Operation PowerOFF since 2018, aiming to disrupt the DDoS-for-hire service infrastructures worldwide. As part of this Operation, On May 8th,...

Hackers Shifting DDoS Attacks to VPS Infrastructure for Increased Power

Cloudflare released a threat report for DDoS of Q1 2023, showing that cyber threat actors use VPS-based attack vectors instead of compromised IoT (Internet...

Record Breaking DDoS Attack – 158.2 Million Packets Per Second

When a DDoS attack is conducted, the server being targeted receives a large number of garbage requests. As a result, the server's capacity is...

Taiwanese Websites Hit by DDoS Attacks Ahead of Nancy Pelosi’s Visit

Taiwan’s Presidential website and several websites run by the government of Taiwan were disrupted by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks hours before United States Speaker...