The Office of Inadequate Security
A press release from Dutch Politie: Starting this week, law enforcement agencies from fifteen different countries, together with Europol, are once again taking large-scale action against DDoS-for-hire services. In Operation PowerOFF, three arrests were made internationally, 27 websites were taken offline and data from three servers was secured. The Dutch police, under the authority of…
Brian Krebs reports: The U.S. government on Wednesday announced the arrest and charging of two Sudanese brothers accused of running Anonymous Sudan (a.k.a. AnonSudan), a cybercrime business known for launching powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a range of targets, including dozens of hospitals, news websites and cloud providers. The younger brother is facing charges that could land…
EU Today reports: Spain has apprehended three individuals accused of executing cyberattacks as part of a well-known pro-Russian hacker group targeting Ukraine and NATO countries that support Ukraine. The Spanish Civil Guard announced on 20 July that they had detained the suspects in Manacor, Balearic Islands, and in the province of Andalusia. The individuals are alleged to…
May 30, 2024 HC3: Analyst Note TLP:CLEAR Report: 20240530120 Executive Summary A Distributed-Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack is a type of cyber attack in which an attacker uses multiple systems, often referred to as a botnet, to send a high volume of traffic or requests to a targeted network or system, overwhelming it and making it unavailable…
Alexander Martin reports: A number of French government agencies have been hit by “intense” cyberattacks, the prime minister’s office announced on Monday. The nature of the attacks, which began on Sunday night, has not been confirmed although the description is consistent with distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The French government said the attack was “conducted using familiar…
Andy Cuthbertson reports: Hackers have infected millions of smart toothbrushes with malware in order to carry out a massive cyber attack against a Swiss company, according to reports. The internet-connected toothbrushes were linked together in something known as a botnet in order to perform a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, which overloads websites and servers with…