An attacker has been infecting misconfigured, internet-exposed Docker containers to serve as launchpads for an on-demand distributed-denial-of-service disruption platform calling itself ShadowV2 that offers a sophisticated, cloud-native toolkit, said researchers.
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A joint operation by European police agencies led to the arrests of two suspected operators of a prolific pro-Russian hacktivist group called NoName057(16). The authorities also seized multiple networks associated with the group, as well as issued arrest warrants against other suspected members.
Police in Poland arrested four individuals suspected of serving as administrators for six prolific but now defunct stresser/booter services - Cfxapi, Cfxsecurity, neostress, jetstress, quickdown and zapcut - which sold distributed denial-of-service attacks on demand.
Power, speed and security don’t have to be mutually exclusive for organizations aiming to integrate innovative new solutions into their systems and networks. Fastly’s Todd Nightingale outlines how a unified, simplified approach can help organizations fight complex threats - without compromise.
In this week's update, ISMG editors discussed X's major DDoS outages, politically motivated cyberattacks, key takeaways from Gartner's Security & Risk Summit in Sydney, and rising operational technology threats highlighted in recent Dragos and Gartner reports.
One of the world's biggest social networks continued to face intermittent outages Tuesday, apparently due to unsophisticated, distributed denial-of-service attacks. Experts said the attacks were traced to malware-infected devices - many based in the U.S. - and pro-Palestinian hacktivists.
Repeated outages on social media platform X - formerly Twitter - on Monday are the result of a distributed denial of service attack, asserted platform owner Elon Musk in a sporadically available tweet. The social media platform experienced four significant outages.
A spate of distributed denial-of-service attacks during the end-of-year holiday season disrupted operations at multiple Japanese organizations, including the country's largest airline, wireless carrier and prominent banks. The effect of the attacks has been temporary.
An apparent Russian script kiddie is converting widespread security gaps into powerful botnets capable of launching global-scale distributed denial-of-service attacks. A threat actor with the online moniker "Matrix" is exploiting IoT vulnerabilities such as default credentials and outdated software.
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