Pro-Kremlin hacking group KILLNET has launched a “sophisticated” cyberattack on the EU Parliament website.
The attack was launched after the Parliament designated Russia a state sponsor of terrorism:
https://twitter.com/EP_President/status/1595443471518777345Users were unable to access the Parliament’s website for a few hours and some parts were rendered inoperable. As of writing, access has been restored.
In a Telegram post, KILLNET claimed...
Japan has become the latest member of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE).
While there have been thankfully few cases of conventional warfare on Western territories for decades, in no small part thanks to NATO, the planet has remained locked in a cyber World War.
In April, members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance issued a joint cybersecurity advisory warning of increased attacks on critical infrastructure from Russia. These attacks...
Akamai says that it halted what would have been a record-breaking distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in Europe.
Another month comes another report of a would-be record DDoS. Last month, Cloudflare detailed a record-breaking DDoS attack that it thwarted in June. This time, it’s the turn of Akamai.
According to Akamai, an undisclosed company was hit by sustained traffic over a 30-day period. That traffic peaked on 21st July when the company was hit with 659.6...
Data collected by F5 suggests that Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks became “larger and more complex” last year.
While the prevalence of DDoS attacks decreased slightly over the previous year, the severity of each occurrence “ramped up markedly” in 2021.
By Q4 2021, the mean DDoS attack was in excess of 21Gbps. That’s more than four times larger than the beginning of 2020.
Not only did last year result in a larger overall mean attack size;...
White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan has warned that a Russian cyberattack on a NATO ally could trigger a collective response.
"We could see circumstances in which a collective response by the alliance to a cyberattack would be called by an ally," said Sullivan. "That is absolutely something where we and other countries could bring capabilities to help a country defend itself and respond."
Sullivan made the warning a day after President Biden said that...
According to the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), a large number of cyberattacks the country has received from US IP addresses are now using compromised resources to target Russia.
In a post on the CAC’s website, the agency wrote:
“Since late February, my country’s internet has been continuously attacked by overseas cyberattacks.
Overseas organizations controlled computers in China through attacks, and then carried out cyberattacks on Russia,...
The UK and Australia have agreed to develop a “network of liberty” to combat malign cyber actors.
Western alliances are being renewed in the face of increasing aggression from countries like Russia and China. Few alliances have as much history as the one between the UK and Australia.
“Britain and Australia share one of the oldest and strongest defence and security alliances,” said UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace.
“Operating and exercising side by...
A large cyberattack that hit Ukrainian government websites told visitors to “be afraid and expect the worst”.
Ukrainian authorities and companies regularly face cyberattacks that are suspected to primarily originate from Russian hackers, whether state-sponsored or acting independently. Many cyberattacks target critical infrastructure such as the power grid.
"Ukrainian! All your personal data was uploaded to the public network. All data on the computer is destroyed,...
Research from the network intelligence experts at Nokia Deepfield has found that the majority of DDoS attacks originate from fewer than 50 hosting companies.
The researchers analysed a large sample of networks and traced the origins of most DDoS attacks (by frequency and traffic volume).
Nokia Deepfield undertook the research following its observation that DDoS traffic increased 40-50 percent following the implementation of COVID-19 lockdown measures. Since then, the...
A new report from Microsoft shines a spotlight on powerful cyberattack campaigns which are currently targeting the US election.
The upcoming US presidential election was expected to be a prime candidate for interference. However, Microsoft notes that foreign activity groups have "stepped up their efforts” for this election.
Microsoft has discovered three key campaigns operating from three countries often linked with cyberattacks:
Strontium (Russian) –...
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