Zombie camera army breaking the internet
30,000 hijacked security cameras stitched into wrecking ball
A swarm of zombified security cameras has unleashed the biggest cyber onslaught ever recorded, battering the internet with a tidal wave of digital garbage.
Cloudflare blocked 21.3 million DDoS attacks last year
Halloween 2024 was the worst ever
Cloudflare’s autonomous DDoS defence systems thwarted approximately 21.3 million DDoS attacks in 2024, a significant 53 per cent increase from 2023.
Two Sudanese nationals indicted for DDoS attacks
Alleged to be part of Anonymous Sudan
The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) has indicted two Sudanese nationals for their alleged role in operating the hacktivist group Anonymous Sudan.
Breached VPS’s are giving DDoS attacks teeth
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
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.