Tag: DDoS
Government-targeted DDoS attacks surge over 1,800% in 2021
Nowadays, governments worldwide face the challenge of protecting their cyberspace in addition to their physical borders. Online presence creates an additional attack surface that can be used in coordinated […]
Record 5.4 million DDoS attacks reported in first half 2021, claims report
According to the data presented by the Atlas VPN team, cybercriminals launched nearly 5.4 million Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks in the first half of 2021 — an 11% increase […]
Implications of DDoS Attacks for Election Security
The threats of cyberattacks against the US electoral process are far from hypothetical. The previous Presidential election showed that cyber threat actors will attempt to use social media to change […]
What caused Labour Party cyber attack?
The Labour Party has experienced a “sophisticated and large-scale cyber attack” on its digital platforms, which was later revealed to be a DDoS attack. DDoS – or distributed denial-of-service – […]
Google’s Jigsaw offers free anti-meddling tools ahead of EU elections
Google is giving political organisations in Europe free access to tools that tackle online attacks and disruption ahead of upcoming EU elections in May. The company’s cybersecurity incubator Jigsaw is […]
Was the BBC hit by a DDoS attack?
It appears that the disruptions caused to the BBC’s iPlayer and website last weekend were possibly due to a DDoS attack. The iPlayer service was out of action over most […]
Feedly hostage crisis enters day 3 with no resolution
Feedly, the RSS reading service, has been under a "DDOS attack" for some time now. Nefarious hackers are bombarding the website's servers, forcing them offline. According to the company's blog the attacker is apparently trying to extort money from…
All BBC websites out of order last night, but why?
The BBC's online portfolio experienced an unprecedented outage last night, with all of the broadcaster's websites inaccessible from between 11pm and midnight. Twitter was alight with users complaining about the failure, the biggest outage since the BBC.co.uk homepage went down…
"Anonymous" pro-WikiLeaks web attacks lead to five arrests in UK
The UK's Metropolitan Police service arrested five men today who the belive have been involved in the recent series of pro-WikiLeaks attacks on major web destinations. A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said that the arrests are in relation to "recent and…
