2021
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DDoSers take weekend off only to resume campaign against UK’s Voipfone on Monday
Firm fingers ‘overseas criminals’ for sending internet phone business TITSUP* It never rains but it pours. Internet telephone service provider Voipfone, currently battling a “major outage” across all…
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Microsoft says Azure fended off what might just be the world’s biggest-ever DDoS attack
Much of the 2.4Tbit/sec came from across Asia and targeted a single Euro-customer Microsoft claims its Azure cloud has fended off the largest DDOS attack it’s detected, which…
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2021 nastiest malware: Here to stay and ever evolving
This year was yet another year with COVID-19 and malware running rampant in the headlines. Be it in person or online, the world is still struggling in the…
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NS1 DDoS Overage Protection delivers price protection for business resilience
NS1 announced DDoS Overage Protection. This new premium offering prevents unexpected cost increases in the event of usage spikes due to distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against NS1’s Managed…
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DDoS attacks increased 11% in 1H 2021, fueling a global security crisis
NETSCOUT announced findings from its report that underscore the dramatic impact cyberattacks continue to have on private and public organizations and governments worldwide. In the first half of…
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Hillstone virtual Web Application Firewall detects and defends against treats in web applications
Hillstone Networks released Hillstone virtual Web Application Firewall (vWAF) as part of its full breadth of cybersecurity solutions. vWAF addresses and protects against the barrage of vulnerabilities that…
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New Zealand DDoS wave targets banks, post offices, weather forecasters and more
Nobody from government will say a word about who’s behind it Banks and post offices in New Zealand have been hit by a cyber offensive, according to reports,…
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New Zealand internet outage blamed on DDoS attack on nation’s third largest internet provider
Here in the UK, Sky broadband users back online Parts of New Zealand were cut off from the digital world today after a major local ISP was hit…
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UK VoIP telco receives ‘colossal ransom demand’, reveals REvil cybercrooks suspected of ‘organised’ DDoS attacks on UK VoIP companies
One firm hit with at least 2 attacks as outages continue Two UK VoIP operators have had their services disrupted over the last couple of days by ongoing,…
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Israeli firm Bright Data named as enabler of Philippines government DDOS attacks on opposition groups
This one has it all: a leaky VPN, creepy proxy networks, 8Chan, clouds hosting wonky workloads, and Swedish digital rights org Qurium Looks like a case of abuse…