Last week we reported on the world's largest DDoS attack that hit Github website and caused a brief service disruption. The 1.35 Tbps DDoS attack was carried out by exploiting a recently exposed critical vulnerability in unsecured Memcached...
After a brief hiatus, attackers have returned with a series of new DDoS attacks and this time they have introduced a new technique for launching DDoS attacks, which is much more devastating than before.
According to the findings of IT security...
The online version control and code distribution platform Github has suffered a series of massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on Wednesday, February 28, 2018, causing service disruption by forcing its website Github.com to...
On February 9th, 2017, during the opening ceremony of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics its official website suffered a massive cyber attack causing service disruption. Before that IT security researchers at McAfee reported a new malware...
The Winter Olympics Games Organizing Committee is investigating a cyber attack on the event's Internet and Wi-Fi system. The attack was carried out 45 minutes before the opening ceremony on Friday night in South Korea.
According to the...
2017 is over, but memories of some of the biggest hacking and data breach related incidents will haunt victims for a long time. Today, we will be highlighting biggest hacking incidents of 2017 including malware attacks leading to ransomware...
Bitcoin is one of those cryptocurrencies whose value has rapidly increased making it a lucrative target for cybercriminals and hackers. That is the reason we often read about scams including malware, phishing or malicious apps aiming...
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Bitfinex, known as one of the world largest cryptocurrency exchange was forced to shut down its ongoing operations after suffering a series of non-stop distributed denial of service...
Security researchers at the Austin based Anti-virus software firm Forcepoint have discovered a massive spam ransomware campaign in which the Scarab malware destroys all your files if you don’t pay the ransom, which is asked in Bitcoin.
The...
