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Ukraine Government and Pro-Ukrainian Sites Hit by DDoS Attacks

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Ukraine Government and Pro-Ukrainian Sites Hit by DDoS Attacks

RiSec 29 April 2022

The Computer Emergency Response Team in Ukraine (CERT-UA) has announced that Ukraine government web portals and pro-Ukraine sites are subjected to ongoing DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks. They don’t currently know who is behind these attacks. The attack involves injecting a malicious JavaScript (JS)—officially named “BrownFlood”—into compromised WordPress sites, arming them with the ability to DDoS sites. The script, which is encoded in base64 to avoid detection, is injected into the HTML structure of the sites’ main files. Whoever visits these sites are then turned into an unknowing...

Anonymous Declares Cyber War against Russia, disables state news website

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Anonymous Declares Cyber War against Russia, disables state news website

RiSec 25 February 2022

The popular collective Anonymous declared war on Russia for the illegitimate invasion of Ukraine and announced a series of cyber attacks calling to action its members The Anonymous collective is calling to action against Russia following the illegitimate invasion of Ukraine. The famous groups of hacktivists are also calling for action Russian citizens inviting them to express their dissent to Putin. Anonymous Declares Cyber War against Russia “The Anonymous collective is officially in” cyber war “against the Russian government.” This was announced directly by the international network of hackers through...

White House and UK Gov attribute DDoS attacks on Ukraine to Russia’s GRU

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White House and UK Gov attribute DDoS attacks on Ukraine to Russia’s GRU

RiSec 19 February 2022

The White House has linked the recent DDoS attacks against Ukraine ‘s banks and defense agencies to Russia’s GRU The White House has linked the recent DDoS attacks that took offline the sites of banks and defense agencies of Ukraine to Russia’s Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (aka GRU). This week, the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces of Ukraine and state-owned banks, Privatbank (Ukraine’s largest bank) and Oschadbank were hit by Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. The website of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has been taken...

Ukrainian Banks & Defense Ministry Hit with “Powerful” DDoS Attack

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Ukrainian Banks & Defense Ministry Hit with “Powerful” DDoS Attack

RiSec 15 February 2022

Websites for several banks and government agencies in Ukraine — including the Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Armed Forces of Ukraine — were facing disruptions Tuesday, according to multiple sources. Ukraine’s Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security posted a message to Facebook late morning U.S. time saying the banks and the government were hit by a “massive” distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyberattack. The Ministry of Defense tweeted that it had “probably” been targeted with DDoS, and that it was communicating via Facebook and Twitter. The Ukrainian State Service of...

The largest DDoS to date, Microsoft mitigates a 3.47 Tbps DDoS attack

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The largest DDoS to date, Microsoft mitigates a 3.47 Tbps DDoS attack

RiSec 27 January 2022

Microsoft announced to have mitigated a record 3.47 Tbps distributed denial of service attack targeting an Azure customer, the largest DDoS to date Microsoft announced that its Azure DDoS protection platform has mitigated a record 3.47 Tbps attack that targeted one of its customers with a packet rate of 340 million packets per second (pps). The news of the attack was reported in the “Azure DDoS Protection —2021 Q3 and Q4 DDoS attack trends.” “In November, Microsoft mitigated a DDoS attack with a throughput of 3.47 Tbps and a packet rate of 340...

HOW TO SECURE IOT DEVICES WITH PENETRATION TESTING

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HOW TO SECURE IOT DEVICES WITH PENETRATION TESTING

RiSecPy 12 November 2020

IoT In the Internet of Things (IoT) settings, objects are linked on a network to share data, but a number of these IoT systems are built and implemented with inadequate security in mind. Consequently, these systems have increasingly become a target of various attacks. An effective solution for guaranteeing the security and safety of a network system is through penetration testing. In general, penetration testing is implemented to identify the vulnerabilities or potential attacks on traditional systems. A quick fix of these vulnerabilities can mitigate future attacks. However, IoT...