Category Archives: DDoS Vendors

Slew of WP-based business sites compromised to lead to ransomware

If an approach works well, there is no reason to change tack, and the masters of the SoakSoak botnet are obviously of the same belief. A year and a half after they have been spotted compromising WP-based websites through vulnerabilities in the Slider Revolution (“RevSlider”) plugin and redirecting visitors to the malware-laden SoakSoak.ru website, they are at it again. “Websites are often compromised by botnets that scan websites for vulnerable software or application plugins,” Invincea’s … More ?

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Docker Cloud under fire after DDoS attacks slam DNS, knacker websites

Container biz blames downtime on traffic flood Websites running on the Docker Cloud hosted container management and deployment service were taken down by an apparent DNS outage on Monday. Reg readers and Docker Cloud support forum members complained today that their services were down or suffering intermittent outages with little explanation from Docker. One angry user got in touch with us to lambast the San Francisco startup’s customer support. “The DNS service has now been intermittently online and offline for over a day. All this from a company supposedly worth millions,” he said. “We’ve got a thread ongoing in the forums but we’ve had limited response from Docker staff. For nearly three hours the status page said everything was fine.” On the message board, ziontech, with 20 sites running on Docker Cloud, wrote: “All my dockerapp.io endpoints have gone down, DNS resolution is failing, is there an issue with these right now?” Docker was criticized for relying on users to keep each other updated on its systems’ operations. Docker Cloud is the Docker hosting service from Tutum, which Docker bought in October 2015. The purchase price was not disclosed. The Reg has asked Docker for comment and will update this piece with any response. We note that the Docker system status page was updated to read: “We have identified an unusual high load on our DNS servers that is causing some lookups to fail. We are scaling up and investigating the source of the traffic.” ® Updated to add A spokesman for Docker has been in touch to say its DNS infrastructure was flooded offline with junk traffic, resulting in outages for customers: Docker Cloud did experience an outage yesterday due to two Distributed Denial of Service attacks on the DNS. Service was restored yesterday and things are completely back to normal. Docker provided updates via the forums within an hour after the outage was discovered, which was as soon as possible based on the information they had, and continued doing so throughout the day. They also continuously updated the status at status.docker.com. Docker has taken corrective measures to ensure this situation does not occur in the future, and, most importantly, has taken steps to ensure that user applications will not be affected in the event that Docker Cloud experiences another outage. Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/19/docker_cloud_dns_outage/

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DDoS attacks continue to escalate in both size and frequency

Arbor Networks released global DDoS attack data for the first six months of 2016 that shows a continuing escalation in the both the size and frequency of attacks. Arbor’s data is gathered through ATLAS, a collaborative partnership with more than 330 service provider customers who share anonymous traffic data with Arbor in order to deliver an aggregated view of global traffic and threats. ATLAS data has also been utilized recently in Cisco’s Visual Networking Index … More ?

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Whitepaper: Does your DDoS protection strategy address the changing threat landscape?

When it comes to DDoS attacks, you need a protection strategy that quickly adapts to the increasing sophistication of today’s attackers and the other current changes and trends in the DDoS threat landscape. Find out: What are the newest trends in Network and Applicative DDoS attacks What are the implications on your DDoS protection strategy How Incapsula’s DDoS Protection service addresses the new protection requirements. DDoS Downtime Calculator Incapsula’s DDoS Downtime Calculator is designed to … More ?

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HSBC Website Suffers DDoS Attack

OurMine Hacking group conducted a massive DDoS attack on HSBC websites forcing the sites to go offline in UK and the USA! The official domain of HSBC (Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) came under massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on 12July affecting domain in UK and the USA. The DDoS attack was conducted by OurMine hacking group which previously made headlines for hacking social media accounts of high-profile tech celebrities including Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google’s Sundar Pichai but this is the second DDoS attack  after WikiLeaks last week. Currently, the reason for targeting HSBC bank is unknown though according to SoftPedia the cyber attack was stopped within few hours after one of HSBC’s staffs contacted the attackers. “Hello, We stopped the attack of HSBC Bank! a staff of HSBC Talked with us,” stated the hackers on their official blog. Screenshot shared by attackers shows HSBC’s UK and US domains are down! It is unclear if the bank was targeted for ransom or just for fun, however, this is not the first time when HSBC faced such attacks. In January 2016 hacktivists from New World Hacktivists (NWH) claimed responsibility for a DDoS attack on HSBC’s mobile servers on payday. As far as OurMine is concerned, it is the same group who hacked  Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai Quora account which was also linked to his Twitter account, the group also hacked Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg Twitter and Pinterest accounts and last but not the least the official Twitter account of Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey was also taken over by the same group. DDoS attacks have been increasing with every passing day . In the past, DDoS attacks were conducted just for fun or to shut down servers but now hackers attack sites for ransom and keep them down until a ransom is paid. The ProtonMail DDoS attack is a fine example of how these attacks are becoming another online mafia to steal money. At the time of publishing this article, both targeted sites were reachable. Source: https://www.hackread.com/hsbc-website-suffers-ddos-attack/  

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CloudFlare probes mystery interception of site traffic across India

Traffic to Pirate Bay and others redirected to AirTel banned URL notice An unknown agency in India, possibly telco Airtel, is quietly capitalising on encryption gaps in sites tended by DDOS-buster CloudFlare to intercept and redirect users.…

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Mike McNeill’s Diary for Monday, July 11, 2016: Fighting off the DDoS

magnoliareporter.com experienced some technical issues on Friday. Our website is hosted by a service known as TownNews.com , which hosts and provides technical assistance to thousands of media-oriented websites across the country. TownNews.com was hit by a directed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Friday afternoon. This mainly manifested itself by making it difficult for us — and hundreds of other websites — to access our servers and make changes. People may have had difficulty accessing our website during that time. We do not think that our thousands of daily visitors have anything to worry about as TownNews.com technology responded immediately. That said, it is probably a good thing that we are not president of the United States. To us, hackers present a clear and present danger to the security of the United States, which has our permission to deal with them with extreme prejudice. North Korea is bent out of shape over the pending deployment by South Korea of the U.S.-made Terminal High Altitude Defense System, or THAAD. THAAD launchers and fire control systems are made in East Camden. North Korea’s military said in a statement that, “There will be physical response measures from us as soon as the location and time that the invasionary tool for U.S. world supremacy, THAAD, will be brought into South Korea are confirmed. It is the unwavering will of our army to deal a ruthless retaliatory strike and turn (the South) into a sea of fire and a pile of ashes the moment we have an order to carry it out.” Ohhhhhhh. We’re scared. Seriously, how many submarines, cruisers, aircraft carriers, bombers and drones are circling offshore North Korea, ready to unleash hell at any given moment? And that’s just the U.S. military. That sea of fire and pile of ashes looks a lot like future downtown Pyougyang to us. The Magnolia School District website is having a makeover. We’ll let you know when the site is up and running. Looking for more widely spread drought conditions when the new report comes out later this week. We’re expecting more abnormally dry conditions in South Arkansas. Patrick Posey died Saturday at his home near Benton, LA. Posey and his wife, Susan, performed much of the mural restoration work around the square a few years ago. Some fool vandalized highway signs in the Walkerville area on during the weekend, but the hate speech written on them was cleaned up. Our new online poll asks for your opinion about the state of race relations in Columbia County – whether they are better, worse or about the same as a decade ago. Another question might be what each of us, as individuals, is doing to make things better. Five years ago, we reported that Walkerville Cumberland Presbyterian Church was dedicating a new manse. A year ago, we reported that Betsy Production was drilling an oil well on the SAU campus. Vice President Aaron Burr shot and mortally wounded former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton in a duel on this date in 1804. Author E.B. White was born on this date in 1899. George Gershwin died on this date in 1937. Source: http://www.magnoliareporter.com/news_and_business/mike_mcneills_diary/article_733b45f8-4720-11e6-9e2d-97f7f136ad46.html

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UK: Cybercrime now bigger threat than traditional crime

The accelerating pace of technology and criminal cyber capability currently outpaces the UK’s collective response to cybercrime, calling for stronger collaborative working between government, law enforcement and, crucially, business to reduce vulnerabilities and prevent crime. Cybercrime as a proportion of total UK crime in 2015 An assessment by the National Crime Agency shows that cybercrime activity is growing fast and evolving, with the threats from DDoS and ransomware attacks increasing significantly in 2015. The most … More ?

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Ransomware: Can we finally start learning from past mistakes?

There is a phrase I am finding quite relevant lately. It is attributed to the philosopher George Santayana and it goes like this: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The reason it comes to my mind a lot these days is the headlines we are seeing relating to the latest ransomware attacks against companies’, hospitals’ and government departments’ systems. Previous headlines highlighted how criminals used DDoS attacks to extort money … More ?

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