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Leader of pro-Russia DDoS crew Killnet ‘unmasked’ by Russian state media

Also: NXP China attack, Australia can’t deliver on ransom payment ban (yet), and Justin Sun’s very bad month Infosec in Brief Cybercriminals working out of Russia go to great lengths to conceal their real identities, and you won’t ever find the state trying to unmask them either – as long as they keep supplying the attacks on Axis nations. It’s the reason why we found it so amusing that of all the ways the identity of an organized cybercrime gang leader could be revealed, it was Russian state media that may have recently outed someone of note.…

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Leader of pro-Russia DDoS crew Killnet ‘unmasked’ by Russian state media

With dead-time dump, Microsoft revealed DDoS as cause of recent cloud outages

Previous claims its own software updates were the issue remain almost, kinda, plausible In the murky world of political and corporate spin, announcing bad news on Friday afternoon – a time when few media outlets are watching, and audiences are at a low ebb – is called “taking out the trash.” And that’s what Microsoft appears to have done last Friday.…

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With dead-time dump, Microsoft revealed DDoS as cause of recent cloud outages

Russian hacktivists DDoS hospitals, with pathetic results

Not that we’re urging them to try harder or anything A series of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks shut down nine Danish hospitals’ websites for a few hours on Sunday, but did not have any life-threatening impact on the medical centers’ operations or digital infrastructure.…

Palo Alto bug used for DDoS attacks and there’s no fix yet

There goes the weekend… A high-severity Palo Alto Networks denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability has been exploited by miscreants looking to launch DDoS attacks, and several of the affected products won’t have a patch until next week.…

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Palo Alto bug used for DDoS attacks and there’s no fix yet

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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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, consisting of sustained DDoS attacks against a number of critical online services.…

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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 by an aggressive DDoS attack.…

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New Zealand internet outage blamed on DDoS attack on nation’s third largest internet provider

Protect your business from DDoS attacks: Join this webinar to find out more

Expert advice on how to combat one of the most dangerous online threats Promo With the COVID-19 pandemic leading us all to depend on online services like we never have before, a DDoS attack that takes operations offline can have very serious and long-term consequences for a business. Add to this the huge surge in DDoS attacks this year, with assaults getting bigger, more powerful and disruptive, and it’s clear security leaders need to urgently get to grips with how to deal with them.…

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Protect your business from DDoS attacks: Join this webinar to find out more

Russian jailed for eight years in the US for writing code that sifted botnet logs for web banking creds for fraudsters

Harvested usernames, passwords used to drain victims’ coffers A Russian programmer has been sentenced to eight years behind bars in America for his part in a massive cybercriminal network that hacked into and drained victims’ bank accounts.…

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Russian jailed for eight years in the US for writing code that sifted botnet logs for web banking creds for fraudsters

When classes are online, how do you get out of school? Florida teen cuffed, charged after crashing cyber-lessons

Eight DDoS attacks targeted networks, virtual classrooms, say officials A teenager in America has apparently admitted knocking virtual learning classes offline with a string of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.…

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When classes are online, how do you get out of school? Florida teen cuffed, charged after crashing cyber-lessons