Norway’s National Security Authority (NSM) confirmed that a DDoS attack took down some of the country’s most important websites. Norway’s National Security Authority (NSM) confirmed that some of the country’s most important websites and online services were taken down by a massive DDoS attack conducted by a pro-Russian group. NS

Norway's National Security Authority (NSM) published a statement yesterday warning that some of the country's most important websites and online services are being rendered inaccessible due to distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.The statement further explains that a criminal pro-Russian group is believed to be behind the attacks.DDoS attacks ar

Lithuania confirmed it had been hit by an “intense” cyberattack, after Vilnius imposed restrictions on the rail transit of certain goods to Kaliningrad. The government of Lithuania announced on Monday that it had been hit by an “intense” cyberattack, likely launched from Moscow, days after the Russian government protested restricti

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The National Cyber Security Center (NKSC) of Lithuania has issued a public warning about a steep increase in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks directed against public authorities in the country.DDoS is a special type of cyberattack that causes internet servers to be overwhelmed by a large number of requests and garbage traffic, rendering the hoste

Mounting Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks is undoubtedly an arcane tactic considering the evolutionary timeline of cyber-defenses, but ‘going old-school’ does pay off when one’s engaged in a fast-paced, counter-for-threat trade-off. Recently, Heimdal™ investigated a massive surge in DDoS-type attacks, proving the old adage: “there’s no retreat, we’re just ad

Matthew Gatrel, a 33-year-old man from St. Charles, Illinois, has been sentenced to two years in prison for running websites that provide powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against internet users and websites. This sentencing resulted in the seizure of his websites, making the internet a little safer from DDoS attacks. Gatrel was the ad

Security and web performance services provider Cloudflare this week announced that it has mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 26 million requests-per-second (RPS).Considered the largest HTTPS DDoS attack on record, the assault was launched by a botnet of roughly 5,000 devices.According to Cloudflare, the att

Last week, Cloudflare blocked the largest HTTPS DDoS attack on record. The attack amassed some 26 million requests per second (rps). The previous record for a HTTPS DDoS attack was 15.3 million rps. The attack targeted an unnamed Cloudflare customer and originated mostly from Cloud Service Providers. DDoS over HTTPS DDoS stands for Distributed Denia

PrivacyAffairs released the Dark Web Index 2022, the document provides the prices for illegal services/products available in the black marketplaces. Privacy Affairs published the Dark Web Index, an analysis of prices for illegal services/products available in the black marketplaces and related to the period between February 2021 and June 2022. The documen

An Illinois man was sentenced to two years in prison for operating a distributed denial of service (DDoS ) platform that allowed threat actors to conduct over 200,000 attacks.The sentenced man, Matthew Gatrel, 33, had created and operated the websites “downthem.org” and “ampnode.com.” The former sold subscriptions to a powerful DDoS a

The operator of an infamous service that allowed users to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks was sentenced on Monday to 24 months in prison.The man, Matthew Gatrel, 33, of St. Charles, Illinois, was convicted in September 2021 on three counts of computer-related and wire fraud felonies.According to court documents, Gatrel owned and operated

Internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare said today that it mitigated a 26 million request per second distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the largest HTTPS DDoS attack detected to date.The record-breaking attack occurred last week and targeted one of Cloudflare's customers using the Free plan.The threat actor behind it likely used hijacked servers an

A 33-year-old Illinois man was sentenced to two years in prison today following his conviction last year for operating services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against hundreds of thousands of Internet users and websites. The user interface for Downthem[.]org. Matthew Gatrel of St. Charles, Ill.

Resecurity, Inc. (USA) has identified an increase in activity within hacktivist groups conducted by a new group called “Cyber Spetsnaz”. Resecurity, Inc. (USA) has identified an increase in activity within hacktivist groups, they’re leveraging current geopolitical tensions between the Ukraine and Russia to perform cyber-attacks. Following the attacks of