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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Cloudflare offers free DDoS protection
Claims that DDoS will be history
Cloudflare is making protection against DDoS attacks free, regardless of how bad they are and claims that soon that method of bringing down a website will be history.