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Ukraine government and pro-Ukrainian sites hit by DDoS attacks

April 29, 2022 admin brownflood, cert-ua, compromised wordpress sites, ddos, DDos attack, distributed denial-of-service attack, GitHub, Security world, wordpress

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 08:01:46 +0000

We can’t tell which party made the first move, but both the pro-Ukraine and Russian sides have been exchanging DDoS attacks.

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DDoS barrage against Israel described as the “largest ever” cyberattack its faced

March 15, 2022 admin bezeq, Cellcom, ddos, distributed denial-of-service attack, iranian hackers, Israel, israeli national cyber directorate, mike sexton, ram levi, russia-ukraine, Russian hackers, Security world

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 21:38:32 +0000

Israeli government websites crashed during a short bit powerful DDoS attack.

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Tech Firms Team Up to Take Down ‘WireX’ Android DDoS Botnet

August 28, 2017 admin Akamai, Allison Nixon, Android malware, Chad Seaman, ddos, distributed denial-of-service attack, Flashpoint, google, Mirai, Other, Play store, WireX botnet

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 14:06:08 +0000

A half dozen technology and security companies — some of them competitors — issued the exact same press release today. This unusual level of cross-industry collaboration caps a successful effort to dismantle ‘WireX,’ an extraordinary new crime machine comprising tens of thousands of hacked Android mobile devices that was used this month to launch a series of massive cyber attacks. Experts involved in the takedown warn that WireX marks the emergence of a new class of attack tools that are more challenging to defend against and thus require broader industry cooperation to defeat.