Topic: ddos attacks
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Cloudflare Blocks 230 Billion Daily Threats: Key Findings
Modern cyber threats are massive and automated, with over 230 billion malicious attempts intercepted daily, shifting attacks from simple password guessing to sophisticated campaigns exploiting infrastructure gaps. Attackers increasingly use information-stealing malware to bypass multi-factor auth...
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DDoS Attacks Surge in Frequency and Power
DDoS attacks have surged dramatically, with a 168% increase in incidents in 2025, posing a severe global threat to digital infrastructure. Technology, telecom, and financial sectors are primary targets, facing frequent, powerful attacks that are increasingly fast and difficult to mitigate in real...
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FBI Shuts Down Major Ransomware Hub, RAMP Forum
The FBI has seized control of the RAMP forum, a major online hub for ransomware operations, removing a key criminal marketplace and gaining access to user data. The forum was founded as a sanctuary for ransomware activity after other platforms banned it, and was operated by a Russian national ind...
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Olympics Cyber Threats: Phishing and Spoofed Sites Still Top Risks
Cybersecurity experts warn that phishing attacks and spoofed websites remain the primary digital threats for the 2026 Winter Games, attracting a wide range of malicious actors due to the event's global scale and high incentive for disruption. Historical analysis shows past Olympic events faced si...
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Radware Unveils Real-Time API Lifecycle Protection
Radware has launched a new API Security Service designed to provide real-time, end-to-end protection by analyzing live traffic to identify and mitigate threats, directly addressing the OWASP Top 10 API Security Risks. The service tackles common security gaps by offering continuous runtime visibil...
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UK Warns of Ongoing Russian Hacktivist Cyber Attacks
The UK's NCSC warns that Russian-aligned hacktivist groups are persistently targeting critical infrastructure and government with disruptive DDoS attacks, causing significant operational and financial harm. A key group, NoName057(16), uses a crowdsourced "DDoSia" platform to launch distributed at...
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Top Cybersecurity Breaches and Attacks of 2025
Sophisticated social engineering and malware campaigns, such as ClickFix and its variants, expanded across operating systems, tricking users into self-inflicted infections and becoming commercialized through paid platforms. The cryptocurrency sector and enterprise software faced massive breaches,...
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AI's 2025 Internet: Bigger, More Fragile, and Rewired
The internet in 2025 is increasingly driven by automated systems, with bots and AI crawlers responsible for a significant portion of global traffic, creating a busier and more vulnerable network. Access patterns show a mobile-first reality, with smartphones as the primary gateway for most users, ...
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Cloudflare's 2025 Internet Review: Attacks, Outages & Traffic Trends
Global internet traffic grew unevenly in 2025, with major spikes tied to news events and outages, while mobile devices and HTTPS encryption became increasingly dominant. Cyber threats reached unprecedented scale and sophistication, with record-breaking DDoS attacks and a rise in short, evasive bu...
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Ukrainian Hacker Accused of Aiding Russian Cyberattacks
A Ukrainian national, Victoria Eduardovna Dubranova, has been extradited to the U.S. and charged for allegedly working with Russian state-backed hacktivist groups to target American critical infrastructure, including water systems and election infrastructure. The indictment details that the group...
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ShadowV2 Botnet Exploited AWS Outage in Malware Test
ShadowV2 is a new botnet based on the Mirai framework that compromises IoT devices from brands like D-Link and TP-Link, exploiting at least eight security vulnerabilities to spread. The botnet targets routers, NAS systems, and DVRs globally across sectors including government and technology, and ...
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US Border Patrol Surveils Millions of American Drivers
The US Border Patrol operates a predictive-intelligence program using hidden license-plate readers to monitor American drivers far from borders, flagging "suspicious" travel patterns and leading to stops and searches, raising Fourth Amendment concerns. Microsoft mitigated the largest recorded DDo...
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D-Link DIR-878 routers have critical RCE flaws
D-Link has issued a critical alert for its unsupported DIR-878 router, revealing three severe vulnerabilities that allow unauthenticated remote command execution, with exploit code already public. The router, discontinued in 2021 but still sold, will not receive patches, and D-Link advises users ...
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U.S. Sanctions Russian Hosting Service for Ransomware Role
The U.S., U.K., and Australia have imposed sanctions on Russian bulletproof hosting services for enabling ransomware operations, cybercrimes, and ignoring law enforcement takedown requests. Key targets include Media Land and its affiliates, which supported ransomware groups like LockBit and facil...
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Cloudflare Outage That Took Down ChatGPT Explained
A major Cloudflare outage disrupted numerous popular websites and services, including ChatGPT, revealing the heavy reliance many platforms have on its infrastructure for traffic management and security. The outage was caused by a configuration error in an internal database query, which led to a f...
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Hacktivist DDoS Attacks Surge Against Government Sites
Hacktivist-driven DDoS attacks were the most frequent cybersecurity incidents in the public sector, accounting for 60% of cases, though they were not the most damaging. Data breaches and ransomware, often by cybercriminals and state actors, caused more severe impacts, targeting sensitive services...
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Bitdefender & NETGEAR: Rising Threats to Your Connected Home
The average household now contains 22 connected devices and faces nearly 29 daily cyberattacks, a nearly threefold increase from the previous year, highlighting the growing threat to smart homes. Entertainment devices like streaming gadgets, smart TVs, and IP cameras are the most vulnerable, ofte...
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Gaming Industry Under Siege: DDoS, Data Theft & Malware Attacks
The gaming industry is experiencing escalating cyberattacks, including DDoS incidents and security breaches, threatening user data and virtual economies as the market grows to nearly $189 billion by 2025. Players, especially younger ones, often neglect security measures like strong passwords, mak...
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Bitdefender & NETGEAR: Rising Home Cybersecurity Threats
Modern homes face nearly triple the daily cybersecurity attacks compared to last year, with households averaging 22 connected devices and enduring about 29 attacks daily. Entertainment devices like streaming systems, smart TVs, and IP cameras are the most vulnerable, often unpatched and accountin...
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DigiCert Unveils First RADAR Threat Intelligence Brief
DigiCert's inaugural RADAR Threat Intelligence Brief reveals an unprecedented escalation in DDoS attacks, with two incidents reaching peaks of 2.4 and 3.7 terabits per second, signaling a shift where internet infrastructure becomes both weapon and battleground. The report identifies key trends in...
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Australia's Critical Infrastructure Under Siege: Attacks Double
Australia's critical infrastructure has experienced a 111% increase in cyber attack notifications, with the ASD issuing over 190 alerts in FY25, highlighting growing vulnerabilities in essential services. The healthcare sector is particularly at risk, with malicious actors succeeding in 95% of in...
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Pro-Russia Hackers Target Water Utility in Honeypot Sting
A Russia-aligned hacktivist group called TwoNet was tricked into attacking a decoy water treatment facility, revealing their shift from website disruptions to targeting industrial infrastructure. The group used default credentials to access the system, performed disruptive actions like deleting c...
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Hacktivists Breach Decoy Infrastructure in Cyber Attack
The pro-Russian hacktivist group TwoNet has escalated from DDoS attacks to targeting critical infrastructure, as shown by their breach of a water treatment facility honeypot in September, moving from access to disruption in just over a day. During the attack, TwoNet exploited default credentials ...
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Phishing Leads EU Cyber Intrusions, ENISA Reports
Phishing was the leading initial attack method in the EU, responsible for 60% of intrusions, with outdated mobile and OT systems being prime targets. DDoS attacks comprised 77% of all incidents, largely driven by hacktivism, but only 2% caused service disruptions, with groups like NoName057(16) e...
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Trinity of Chaos Ransomware Unveils New Data Leak Site
Trinity of Chaos, a ransomware collective with ties to major cybercrime groups, has launched a TOR-based data leak site listing 39 international corporations, including Toyota, FedEx, and Disney, marking an escalation in their tactics. The group is publishing previously unreleased data from past ...
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EU Cyberattacks Increasingly Target Critical Infrastructure
The ENISA Threat Landscape 2025 report reveals a significant increase in cyberattacks targeting operational technology systems, which now account for 18.2% of all documented threats, driven by their growing interconnectedness and deliberate targeting by malicious actors. Pro-Russian hacker groups...
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API Incidents Surge: 40,000+ Reported in First Half of 2025
The first half of 2025 saw over 40,000 API incidents, with APIs becoming a prime target for sophisticated automated attacks despite representing a small part of the attack surface. A record-breaking 15 million requests-per-second DDoS attack targeted a financial services API, using botnets that m...
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Deep Learning: An Early Warning System for DDoS Attacks
A novel deep learning approach, using long short-term memory (LSTM) networks, is being developed to forecast DDoS attacks by analyzing historical patterns, shifting cybersecurity from reactive detection to proactive prevention. Research on nearly 200,000 DDoS incidents revealed a near doubling of...
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ShadowV2 Botnet: The Alarming Rise of DDoS-for-Hire
A new botnet called ShadowV2 uses cloud tools like GitHub CodeSpaces and Docker to deploy malware that launches powerful DDoS attacks, targeting vulnerable cloud infrastructure. The operation functions as a sophisticated cybercrime-as-a-service platform, featuring a professional API, user managem...
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Google's 2.5 Billion Gmail Users: No Password Reset Required
Google has denied false reports of a major Gmail data breach and clarified that no password reset warning was issued to users. The company emphasized that Gmail's security is robust, blocking over 99.9% of phishing and malware attempts, and recommended using passkeys for added protection. This in...
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Win-DDoS: Hackers Exploit Public Domain Controllers for DDoS Attacks
Cybersecurity researchers discovered a critical Windows Active Directory flaw (CVE-2025-32724) called Win-DDoS, allowing hackers to hijack domain controllers for large-scale DDoS attacks by exploiting LDAP vulnerabilities. The flaw, along with three others (CVE-2025-26673, CVE-2025-49716, CVE...
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Cyberattacks Threaten Major Sports Events Worldwide
Major sporting events are prime targets for cybercriminals due to their global attention and financial stakes, leading to sophisticated attacks like fraud and disruptions. Fake ticketing scams and phishing campaigns are common threats, tricking fans into losing money or compromising their login c...
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