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New Zealand Stock Exchange Halted Operations Due to DDoS Attacks
The New Zealand stock exchange NZX Ltd. went offline for three days in a row due to a blow of successive cyberattacks. In a...
DDoS Attacks and Credential Abuse Doubling Year-on-Year: Akamai
The key message that came through at the Akamai Edge Live APAC Virtual Summit 2020 on July 2, 2020, was that the nature of...
Lucifer Malware Exploits Windows Vulnerabilities to Launch DDoS Attacks
Security experts from Palo Alto Networks discovered a new malware dubbed “Lucifer” targeting Windows systems with cryptojacking and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The researchers...
DDoS Attacks Rose 180% in 2019 Compared to 2018
Neustar, a global information and technology provider company, revealed that it found 168% increase in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in Q4 2019, compared with...
FBI Warns of DDoS Attacks on State-Level Voter Websites
The FBI recently discovered a potential Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that targeted state-level voter registration and information site, according to the federal...
DDoS attacks on the rise in Q1 2019: Kaspersky Lab
A new research from cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab revealed that the number of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks increased by 84 percent in...
Understanding Weaponized DDoS Attacks
Contributed by Rod Arthur
Modern cyber-attacks have become more sophisticated. Standard modern attacks are multi-stage attacks rather than infection by a single malware executable. DDoS...
Cryptojacking Attacks Rise As Hackers Try to Exploit Linux-based Machines
Researchers at Bitdefender Security recently discovered a Romanian-based threat intelligence group hacking Linux machines and targeting systems with weak Secure Shell Protocol (SSH) credentials. The...
DDoS Attack on VoIP Provider Telnyx Impacts Global Telephony Services
Cybercriminals often leverage Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS) techniques to disrupt critical services of global organizations. Days after a massive DDoS attack on multiple...
Cyberattacks Rise in APAC Region, India Most Targeted: Acronis Cyber Readiness Report
The comprehensive overview of the present cyberthreat landscape has changed drastically, with threat actors leveraging new hacking techniques more often. Besides, the pandemic gave...