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Awareness | Explained | Threats

How to tell if your toothbrush is being used in a DDoS attack

February 7, 2024 - Your essential guide to toothbrush security.

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Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS)

Short bio DDOS, or Distributed Denial of Service tools, are malicious applications designed to mount an attack against a service or website...

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Fake DDoS services set up to trap cybercriminals

March 28, 2023 - The “online criminal marketplace” has been disrupted via several fake Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) tools, according to an announcement from The British National...

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Cybercrime | News

KillNet hits healthcare sector with DDoS attacks

February 10, 2023 - At the end of January, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center warned that the KillNet group is actively targeting the US...

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Worldwide law enforcement action takes down major DDoS booter services

December 16, 2022 - Criminals making use of booter services which execute Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks to take down websites will have to try...

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Cybercrime | News

DDoS-for-hire service provider jailed

June 20, 2022 - Matthew Gatrel, a 33-year-old man from St. Charles, Illinois, has been sentencedto two years in prison for running websites that provide...

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Cybercrime | News

Record breaking HTTPS DDoS attack

June 15, 2022 - Last week, Cloudflareblocked the largest HTTPS DDoSattack on record. The attack amassed some 26 million requests per second (rps). The previous...

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Massive increase in XorDDoS Linux malware in last six months

May 25, 2022 - Microsoft says it’s recorded a massive increasein XorDDoSactivity (254 percent) in the last six months. XorDDoS, a Linux Trojan known for...

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Ukraine government and pro-Ukrainian sites hit by DDoS attacks

April 29, 2022 - The Computer Emergency Response Team in Ukraine (CERT-UA) has announced that Ukraine government web portals and pro-Ukraine sites are subjected to...

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