The Internet Archive, aka Wayback Machine, confirmed that hackers breached its systems, impacting over 31 million accounts. It also faced multiple DDoS attacks that disrupted its services.
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Internet Archive and Wayback Machine have been facing DDoS cyberattacks for the last few days. The non-profit assured that collections are safe despite the service being inconsistent since Sunday.
OpenAI's ChatGPT AI chatbot has been experiencing a number of periodic outages over the past day, due to what the company calls "an abnormal traffic pattern reflective of a DDoS attack."
Microsoft has denied the claims made by Anonymous Sudan that the hacker group was able to access company's servers during a cyberattack last month and steal data of 30 million customers.
The DDoS attack on the Diablo IV servers affected latency and connections for players of Blizzard's popular action-RPG game along with the company's other online games, but it has now been dealt with.
Microsoft 365 was recently taken down heavily by a massive DDoS attack. And today, only about two weeks after the resolution of that issue, there was outage and issues today across Western Europe.
Microsoft has revealed that the disruption to its services in the beginning of June was caused by a sophisticated DDoS cyberattack that overloaded the systems and caused a global blackout.
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Google has announced that it now wears the crown for blocking the largest DDoS attack ever. Its DDoS attack peaked at 46 million requests per second which is 76% higher than Cloudflare's best.
Cloudflare has stopped the largest HTTPS DDoS attack on record. The botnet was making 26 million requests per second leveraging Cloud Service Providers' virtual machines and servers.
Cloudflare has recorded the largest ever HTTPS DDoS attack against one of its customers. It said HTTPS DDoS attacks are more expensive to launch and more expensive to mitigate for those targeted.
Ukraine's digital transformation minister Mykhailo Fedorov is calling for international volunteers to help wage cyber-war on Russia. The telegram channel has more than 180,000 members.
Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that it set a new record after the company successfully defended against DDoS attack with a throughput of 3.47 Tbps and a rate of 340 million packets per second.
According to a CrowdStrike report, Linux malware and malware samples have increased by a lot in 2021 as compared to a year prior. One of the malware types has seen submissions increase by tenfold.
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Microsoft says Azure was easily able to handle a multi-Tbps (2.4Tbps) bandwidth DDoS attack, the largest it had ever faced. This attack was more than double larger than the one it took on last year.
A Ukraine-based hacker who created and coordinated various cyberattacks like DDoS, spamming, or brute-forcing, using his 100,000+ bots has been arrested today by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).
Cloudflare says it mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever with the help of its in-house DDoS protection daemon. According to its data, this massive attack brought in 17.2 million requests per second.
Wikipedia went offline today in many countries due to a broad DDOS attack. It looks like the service seems to have been resumed in several countries, though the incident is still being investigated.
Europol is going after the 151,000 registered users of the biggest DDoS-for-hire website. The law enforcement authority has warned that these people will "face action for the damage they have caused."
Google has announced measures to help bolster next year's European Union elections. The new measures will help voters get to the polling station, protect campaigns, and reveal ads data.
Cloudflare has announced its new Spectrum service, which extends the company's DDoS protection service to any TCP protocol, including gaming services, remote server access, and email.
The tools to perform a terabit-level DDoS attack were made available this week with a list of 17,000 IP addresses of unsecured memcached servers. The same attack was used against GitHub last week.
The hosting service experienced a massive surge of 1.35 Tbps in traffic as part of what may be the largest DDoS attack ever conducted. The attack lasted eight minutes before being mitigated.
Some users are unable to properly access Steam servers during the the 2017 Summer Sale. Hacker group CyberTeam claimed responsibility and promised a full attack targeting all servers is on the way.
Several bitcoin exchanges came under a heavy load of traffic yesterday coinciding with wild fluctuations in the price of bitcoin. It was likely caused by eager buyers and sellers eager to profit.
The latest report from the content distribution company shows that the number and overall scope of distributed denial of service attacks has gone up over the last year, even if that growth has slowed.
Brian Krebs has been investigating for months how the Mirai botnet came to be and who's behind the infamous distributed denial of service attacks from last year. Now he thinks he has answers.
The European Commission became the target of a massive distributed denial of service on Thursday. No data was breached, though internet service was taken out for the better part of the day.
The latest "State of the Internet" report from Akamai shows the growth in number and scope of DDoS attacks around the world. In just three months, there were 19 attacks with over 100Gbps of data.
A teenager from Arizona was arrested for publishing a JavaScript hack for iPhones to make 911 emergency calls, as it resulted in a DDoS on the emergency system in the Maricopa County.
Activists from Fight for the Future have launched a new tech support hotline for non-technology-savvy members of Congress who are clueless about last week's DDoS attacks.
Waves of DDoS cyber attacks have hit at least two internet service providers this morning, causing popular websites like Netflix, Twitter, and Reddit to go offline for an extended period of time.
The source code for what is known today for launching the biggest DDoS attack has been publicly released. The disclosure spread fear among website owners, as anyone could be the next victim.
Unknown attackers launched a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against the Krebs on Security site, hitting it with over 620Gbps over a sustained period. Akamai shut the site down.
The group that has been responsible for bringing numerous online services offline in the past couple years are up to no good again. This time, they've targeted Battle.net - is it retaliatory?
Valve has officially confirmed that Steam was successfully taken offline this holiday, due to a Distributed Denial of Service attack. This lead to the caching errors that displayed personal data.
Online gaming service Steam went down earlier today, following threats from a hacking collective known as SkidNP. Gamers fear a DDoS attack is behind the outage as more people begin to report issues.
A newly-formed hacking group has claimed that they will attempt to take down both Xbox Live and PSN over the coming weeks, to bring the lack of cyber-security to the attention of the public.
Donald Trump has annoyed hackers with his remarks about Muslims. Anonymous responded to what he said by taking down the website of the New York Trump hotel website.
A British teenager has been charged with various offences relating to a series of cyber-attacks across four continents, as well as fake bomb threats made against US airlines on social media.
Cyber criminals said they will continue to DDoS Russian banks, unless Bitcoin ransoms are met. The DDoS attacks are a part of a rising online extortion trend involving cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.
