DDoS Attacks

• Ukraine war anniversary likely to bring ‘disruptive’ cyberattacks on West, agencies warn

  The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said malicious online actors may be seeking 'to sow chaos and societal discord' amid the Ukraine anniversary.

  Tech

  Feb 24, 2023
  
• Adopt ‘heightened’ vigilance on reports of Russia-linked hacks over Ukraine aid: CSE centre

  In particular, the cyber agency is warning Canadian organizations to be on their guard given reports of distributed denial of service attacks from Russian-linked actors.

  Canada

  Jan 26, 2023
  
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• U.S. man arrested for attempted extortion, DDoS attacks on Canadian media, others

  U.S. authorities announced Friday the arrest of a man in connection with cyberattacks and attempted extortion on a U.S. law website, several Canadian and Australian news sites that refused to scrub his name from the internet.

  Crime

  Jul 31, 2017
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• Dyn DDoS attack: How hackers may have hijacked your PVR to cripple the internet

  The massive cyberattack that resulted in widespread outages for some of the world's most popular websites Friday was carried out using a network of hacked "Internet of Things" devices.

  Tech

  Oct 24, 2016
• DDoS attacks continue to cause outages to websites including Twitter, Spotify, Airbnb

  Anyone using sites such as Twitter, Spotify, Shopify and SoundCloud may experience outages Friday, thanks to a widespread outage of Domain Name Server (DNS) provider Dyn.

  Tech

  Oct 21, 2016
• Anonymous threatens to reveal names of 1,000 Ku Klux Klan members

  Hacker group Anonymous has promised to reveal the identities of “about 1,000” Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members on the anniversary of the Ferguson protests.

  Tech

  Oct 30, 2015