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Switzerland under cyberattack

Swiss government websites are under DDoS attacks, but several ransomware gangs have also turned their sights on Swiss government organizations, cantonal governments, cities and companies in the last few months. Government sites under DDoS attacks “Several Federal Administration websites are/were inaccessible on Monday 12 June 2023, due to a DDoS attack on its systems,” the Swiss National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said on Monday. “The Swiss government’s portal www.admin.ch remains accessible.” But the attackers did … More ? The post Switzerland under cyberattack appeared first on Help Net Security .

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Let’s play everyone’s favorite game: REvil? Or Not REvil?

Another day, another DDoS attack that tries to scare the victim into paying up with mention of dreaded gang Akamai has spoken of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) assault against one of its customers during which the attackers astonishingly claimed to be associated with REvil, the notorious ransomware-as-a-service gang.…

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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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Anonymous take down South African State Broadcasting Corp Website Over News Censorship

Anonymous DDoS South African State Broadcasting Corporation Website, SABC says Anonymous hackers are cowards The online hacktivist group, Anonymous have taken offence at the news censorship in South Africa. An Anonymous affiliated group yesterday brought down the SABC website to protest against the rising censorship in South Africa. The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), which is the official state-sponsored broadcaster of Africa has confirmed that its websites were hacked on Sunday. A Twitter account belonging to a hacktivist group dubbed Anonymous Africa claimed responsibility for the downtime of the SABC websites. The hacker targeted the DDoS attacks at the websites for SABC’s main TV channel, but also the 5FM and SAFM radio stations. The attacks begun at noon on Sunday and stopped four hours later after bringing down all Web-related services. The hacker announced its intentions to carry out the attacks on Twitter, on the night between Saturday and Sunday, about nine hours before they started. Anonymous Africa in a series of tweets on Sunday, said it was carrying out the alleged attack in light of allegations of censorship at the SABC. SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng has blocked the broadcaster from showing burning of public property in a move to discourage vandalism while he has further driven a controversial ‘good news’ policy. The censorship charges arised after anti-government protests in South Africa that turned violent. It’s after these protests that SABC took its decision, and also urged private TV stations to stand in solidarity. In statements to South African tech news site Fin24, an SABC representative called the attackers “cowards” for attacking a “national key-point.” In the meantime, Anonymous Africa, which claims links to global hacktivist group Anonymous has promised more cyberattacks against the SABC. “We will stop the attacks at SABC (for now) at 4pm. We are not done yet, lots of action coming. Things are going to get wild!” tweeted the group on Sunday. Source: http://www.techworm.net/2016/06/anonymous-take-south-african-state-broadcasting-corp-website-news-censorship.html

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Attackers are turning MySQL servers into DDoS bots

Someone has been compromising MySQL servers around the world and using them to mount DDoS attacks. The latest targets of these attacks are an (unnamed) US hosting provider and a Chinese IP address. …

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The average DDoS attack tripled in volume

The average packet volume for DDoS attacks increased 340 percent to 4.36 million packets per second (Mpps), and the average bit volume swelled 245 percent to 12.1 Gbps in the final quarter of 2014, ac…

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Attackers rope DVRs in bitcoin-mining botnet in record time

How long does it take for one out of the box digital video recorder to be compromised with malware once the device has been connected to the Internet? The unfortunate answer is just one day. When, …

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