Tag: DDoS
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Cybersecurity sectors adjust as DDoS attacks reach new heights
In this Help Net Security video, Andrey Slastenov, Head of Security Department at Gcore, discusses the findings of their latest report that …
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Round 3 of the toothbrush DDoS debacle!
The story so far. Round 1 The newspaper Aargauer Zeitung published an article claiming that three million IoT-connected toothbrushes had …
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Round 3 in the toothbrush DDoS debacle!
The story so far. Round 1 The newspaper Aargauer Zeitung published an article claiming that three million IoT-connected toothbrushes had …
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Tooth be told: Toothbrush DDoS attack claim was lost in translation, says Fortinet
After hundreds of media outlets worldwide repeated the false claim that a botnet of three million toothbrushes attacked a Swiss company, …
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The toothbrush DDoS attack: How misinformation spreads in the cybersecurity world
Here are a few headlines from the last 24 hours or so, about a supposed smart toothbrush botnet launching a distributed denial-of-service …
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Hackers DDoS Swiss Website with 3 Million Hacked Smart Toothbrushes
Hackers exploited compromised toothbrushes running Java, turning them into botnets to execute DDoS attacks on an undisclosed Swiss website. …
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DDoS attack power skyrockets to 1.6 Tbps
The jump in H2 of 2023 has resulted in the cybersecurity industry now measuring DDoS attacks in a new unit, terabits. For comparison, even …
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From Megabits to Terabits: Gcore Radar Warns of a New Era of DDoS Attacks
As we enter 2024, Gcore has released its latest Gcore Radar report, a twice-annual publication in which the company releases internal …
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Bigpanzi Bot Hacks 170,000+ Android TVs to Launch DDoS Attacks
Android TVs are widely used, and due to their wide adoption, threat actors frequently target them for unauthorized access or data theft. In …
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Anonymous Sudan’s DDoS Attacks Disrupt Network at Israeli BAZAN Group
Anonymous Sudan has also claimed responsibility for DDoS attacks on Thuraya Mobile Satellite Communications Company, an international …
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How Do You Protect Your APIs From DDoS Attacks?
A DDoS attack on an API involves overwhelming the targeted API with a flood of traffic from multiple sources, disrupting its normal …
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Environmental services faced DDoS attack spike in 2023
Fifty percent of the environmental services sector’s HTTP traffic was attributed to HTTP-based distributed denial-of-service attacks, which …
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