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KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Near-Record 6.3 Tbps DDoS

Posted on 20 May, 2025 by [email protected]

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May

KrebsOnSecurity last week was hit by a near record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that clocked in at more than 6.3 terabits of data per second (a terabit is one trillion bits of data). The brief attack appears to have been a test run for a massive new Internet of Things (IoT) botnet capable of launching […]

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Hacker in Snowflake Extortions May Be a U.S. Soldier

Posted on 26 November, 2024 by [email protected]

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Nov

Two men have been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting dozens of companies that used the cloud data storage company Snowflake, but a third suspect — a prolific hacker known as Kiberphant0m — remains at large and continues to publicly extort victims. However, this person’s identity may not remain a secret for long: […]

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Sudanese Brothers Arrested in ‘AnonSudan’ Takedown

Posted on 17 October, 2024 by [email protected]

17
Oct

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 […]

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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Posted on 23 May, 2024 by [email protected]

23
May

The homepage of Stark Industries Solutions. Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. An investigation into Stark Industries reveals it is […]

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