Monthly Archives: October 2021

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 voice services, has admitted to being hit by an “extortion-based DDoS attack from overseas criminals” that knocked it offline last week.…

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DDoSers take weekend off only to resume campaign against UK’s Voipfone on Monday

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 clocked in at 2.4Tbit/sec.…

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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 fight against viruses. This year took another ghastly turn when attacking critical infrastructure and supply chains became a new trend. Perhaps because popular botnets were down, or maybe it’s just plain old-fashioned nation-state sponsored attacks. We saw some previous big players exit the scene this year, some … More ? The post 2021 nastiest malware: Here to stay and ever evolving appeared first on Help Net Security .

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