Pay up or we’ll send up to 400Gbps your way New Zealand Internet Task Force (NZITF) chair Barry Brailey is warning Australian and New Zealand enterprises to be on the look out for distributed denial of service extortion attacks demanding payment of up to AU$7500.…
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$7500 DDoS extortion hitting Aussie, Kiwi enterprises
The company has contracted a third party specializing in such threats in order to prevent further attacks from happening S wiss Dukascopy Bank was a target of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack yesterday, a company spokesperson shared with Finance Magnates’ reporters. The server crash prompted a number of the brokerage’s clients to take to social media in order to establish what the issues were with the website and the demo and real accounts servers of the firm. Additionally, the company detailed that the outage lasted an hour and thirteen minutes. A company spokesperson stated to Finance Magnates reporters, “As you may know yesterday starting from 12:31 GMT to 13:44 GMT Dukascopy servers were down due to a DD0S attack.” The DDoS attack was successfully mitigated and we expect that it will not be repeated “The DDoS attack was successfully mitigated and we expect that it will not be repeated. Protection measures have been implemented, including enabling third party services specializing on such kind of threats.” As stated above, the company has turned to a third party contractor in order to alleviate the risks associated with any further DDoS attack. Financial services institutions are frequent targets of DDoS attacks, however the companies most frequently suffering are banks or credit card payment gateways. In the earlier stages of online business, threats about DDoS attacks have been unlawfully used by some outfits to blackmail their competitors. Our reporters have heard about similar criminal practices remaining in play in more recent cases in the industry. Both binary options providers and brokers have been targets of similar attacks in recent years. As for Dukascopy, it is business as usual on the company’s platforms today, while the euro is hitting fresh 1-month highs against the U.S. dollar and the British pound. Source: http://www.financemagnates.com/forex/brokers/dukascopy-server-crash-on-wednesday-caused-by-ddos-attack/
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Dukascopy Server Crash on Wednesday Caused by DDoS Attack
The New Zealand Internet Task Force (NZITF) advises that an unknown international group has this week begun threatening New Zealand organisations with Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. DDoS attacks are attempts to make an organisation’s Internet links or network unavailable to its users for an extended length of time. This latest DDoS threat appears as an email threatening to take down an organisation’s Internet links unless substantial payments in the digital currency Bitcoin are made. New Zealand Internet Task Force (NZITF) Chair Barry Brailey warns the threat is not an idle one and should be taken extremely seriously as the networks of some New Zealand organisations have already been targetted. “The networks of at least four New Zealand organisations that NZITF knows of have been affected, so far. A number of Australian organisations have also been affected,” he says. “This unknown group of criminals have been sending emails to a number of addresses within an organisation. Sometimes these are support or helpdesk addresses, other times they are directed at individuals. The emails contain statements threatening DDoS, such as: “Your site is going under attack unless you pay 25 Bitcoin.”, “We are aware that you probably don’t have 25 BTC at the moment, so we are giving you 24 hours.” or “IMPORTANT: You don’t even have to reply. Just pay 25 BTC to [bitcoin address] – we will know it’s you and you will never hear from us again.” The emails may also provide links to news articles about other attacks the group has conducted. NZITF urges New Zealand firms and organisations to be on the alert. They also suggest that targeted entities don’t pay as even if this stops a current attack, it makes your organisation a likely target for future exploitation as you have a history of making payments. It is also advisable staff be educated and be on the lookout for any emails matching the descriptions above. Have them alert appropriate security personnel within the organisation as soon as possible. Source: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=18336
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DDoS attacks threatens New Zealand organisations
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Walla Walla Community College is under cyberattack this week by what are believed to be foreign computers that have jammed the college’s Internet systems. Bill Storms, technology director, described it as akin to having too many cars on a freeway, causing delays and disruption to those wanting to connect to the college’s website. The type of attack is a distributed denial of service, or DDoS. They’re often the result of hundreds or even thousands of computers outside the U.S. that are programed with viruses that continually connect to and overload targeted servers. Storms said bandwidth monitors noticed the first spike of attacks on Sunday. To stop the attacks, college officials have had to periodically shut down the Web connection while providing alternative working Internet links to students and staff. The fix, so far, has only been temporary as the problem often returns the next day. “We think we have it under control in the afternoon. And we have a quiet period,” Storm said. “And then around 9 a.m. it all comes in again.” Walla Walla Community College may not be the only victim of the DDoS attack. Storm said he was informed that as many as 39 other state agencies have been the target of similar DDoS attacks. As for the reason for the attack, none was given to college officials. Storms noted campus operators did receive a number of unusual phone calls where the callers said that they were in control of the Internet. But no demands were made. “Some bizarre phone calls came in, and I don’t know whether to take them serious or not,” Storms said. State officials have been contacted and are aiding the college with the problem. Storms said they have idea how long the DDoS attack will last. Source: http://union-bulletin.com/news/2015/apr/30/community-college-targeted-ongoing-cyberattack/
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Arbor Networks released global DDoS attack data that shows a continuation of extremely high volume attacks. In Q1 2015, there were 25 attacks larger than 100Gbps globally. In the past year, Arbor h…
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High volume DDoS attacks still persistent
Ne’er-do-wells: ‘Hey.’ Dumb servers: ‘WHAT?’ Targets: ‘AAARGH’ DDoS attacks have grown in volume yet again with 25 attacks larger than 100Gbps globally in Q1 2015, according to the latest stats from DDoS mitigation firm Arbor Networks.…
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Indian telecom regulator TRAI’s official website was on Monday brought down by a hacker group called Anonymous India following the public release of email IDs from which the government body received responses regarding net neutrality. The group also warned TRAI of being hacked soon. “TRAI down! Fuck you http://trai.gov.in for releasing email IDs publicly and helping spammers. You will be hacked soon,” AnonOpsIndia tweeted. The group claimed to launch a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack on the website to make it inaccessible. Slamming the government portal, the group posted: “#TRAI is so incompetent lol They have any clue how to tackle a DDoS?” “But just an alarm for whole #India. You trust incompetent #TRAI who don’t know how to deal with DDoS? Seriously sorry guys. Goodluck!,” it added. Taking a dig at the personnel at TRAI, it tweeted: “Somebody call ‘brilliant minds’ at TRAI and tell them to stop eating samosas and get back to work coz DDoS attack has stopped from here.” In a response to a Twitter user about the attack, Anonymous India said it was “just preventing spammers from accessing those Email IDs posted by Trai publicly.” It said that TRAI is incompetent in dealing with internet. “So those who still think that #TRAi can “handle” the Internet, we just proved you wrong.They just got trolled by bunch of kids.#Incompetence,” the hacker group tweeted. Following tweets suggesting the hacker group to stop their actions, Anonymous India did same. However, the group compalined that no action was taken on those email ids which were revealed. “Guys http://trai.gov.in is back online and they still haven’t done anything about those Email IDs. You guys told us to stop. We did,” it tweeted. “So if you guys still think you can have a chat with incompetent #TRAi, go ahead. But WE ARE WATCHING!,” the group posted. Source: http://indiablooms.com/ibns_new/news-details/N/10099/hacker-group-brings-down-trai-s-website.html
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DDoS attack brings down TRAI’s website
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