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Breached VPS’s are giving DDoS attacks teeth
Published in IoT


Botnets less interested in IoT

Hyper-volumetric distributed denial of service attacks in the first quarter of 2023 shifted from compromised IoT devices to using breached Virtual Private Servers.

Pro-Putin hackers take down EU Parliament
Published in News
Friday, 25 November 2022 11:30

Pro-Putin hackers take down EU Parliament


How dare you say we are terrorists

Russian hackers, who did not seem to get the irony of their actions, attacked the website of the European Union’s Parliament in revenge for the democratically elected body voting to declare their country a supporter of terrorism.

Ukraine’s MoD suffers DDoS attack
Published in News
Wednesday, 16 February 2022 11:47

Ukraine’s MoD suffers DDoS attack


Unlikely to be Russia 

Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence suffered from a DDoS attack that prevented users from accessing its website, and two Ukrainian banks lost access to online banking services.

Best Korea downed by DDoS attack
Published in News
Thursday, 27 January 2022 11:27

Best Korea downed by DDoS attack


Better not to have wasted money on nukes

The Glorious Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was disconnected from the Internet in a vile move from decadent Imperialist forces to prevent its children obtaining the online education they deserve.

Cloudflare claims to have blocked huge DDoS attack
Published in News


Peaked under 2 Tbps

Cloudflare claims to have blocked a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at just under 2 Tbps.

Microsoft’s Azure mitigates mega DDoS attack
Published in Cloud
Wednesday, 13 October 2021 13:04

Microsoft’s Azure mitigates mega DDoS attack


Largest in the world

Microsoft said its Azure cloud service mitigated a 2.4 terabytes per second (Tbps) distributed denial of service attack this year, at the end of August, representing the largest DDoS attack recorded to date.

Belgium government's IT bought down by DDoS attack
Published in News


China suspected 

Most of the Belgium government's IT network has been down today after a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack knocked offline both internal systems and public-facing websites.

It is still pretty cheap to bring down a company
Published in Home


DDoS Darkweb prices competative

Cyber criminals are offering products on the Dark Web which are pretty cheap considering the damage they do.

DDoS attacks increase 180 percent in 2019
Published in News


Neustar reveals across-the-board growth in attacks

Securing outfit Neustar said that its Security Operations Centre (SOC) saw a 168 percent increase in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in fourth quarter of 2019, compared with the same period 2018.

Europol shuts largest DDoS outfit
Published in News
Thursday, 26 April 2018 11:19

Europol shuts largest DDoS outfit

Popular site

Europol officials have shut down WebStresser where users could register and launch DDoS attacks after paying for a monthly plan which started from 15 euro.