Coordinated DDoS Waves Knock North Korea’s State Websites Offline for Over a Day
Traffic analysis firm Kentik says repeated waves of distributed denial-of-service traffic — originating from Vietnam, the Philippines, Venezuela, and other countries — knocked more than 40 North Korean...
Ubuntu Maker Canonical Knocked Offline by Second Major DDoS Attack This Year
Canonical's main websites and Ubuntu security advisory API went dark for more than four hours after a sustained DDoS attack on October 8, the company's second major outage...
FBI Seizes NightmareStresser Domains After Hundreds of Thousands of DDoS Attacks
The FBI and Canadian authorities have disrupted NightmareStresser, a DDoS-for-hire service blamed for hundreds of thousands of attacks since 2022. The domain seizures are part of Operation PowerOFF...
Threema Beats Back Multi-Day DDoS Siege, Rolls Out New Upstream Filtering
Privacy-focused messenger Threema spent nearly a day fighting off a shifting distributed denial-of-service campaign that hit both its own infrastructure and its colocation partner. No group has claimed...
Inside the Pro-Iran Hacktivist Coalition Racing to Mobilize During the US-Iran Conflict
A new analysis maps the loosely coordinated network of pro-Iran hacktivist groups, state-aligned actors, and opportunistic allies that have ramped up disruptive cyber campaigns since US and Israeli...
Void Botnet Weaponizes Ethereum Smart Contracts for Seizure-Proof Command-and-Control Infrastructure
The Void Botnet uses Ethereum smart contracts as a seizure-resistant C2 channel, making traditional law enforcement takedowns impossible. Sold on Russian-language forums since March 2026 for $600, the...
Massive 2.45 Billion-Request DDoS Attack Uses 1.2 Million IPs to Defeat Rate Limiting in “Low and Slow” Campaign
DataDome researchers have documented a record-scale DDoS attack that delivered 2.45 billion malicious requests over five hours using 1.2 million unique IP addresses across 16,402 ASNs. Each source...
Wireshark 4.6.1: critical security update addresses major vulnerabilities
A recent update from the Wireshark Foundation addresses critical vulnerabilities impacting the widely used network protocol analyzer, potentially exposing users to denial-of-service conditions. The vulnerability lies within the...