DDoS Threats & Security Attacks: DDoS Reports & Cyber Security Threats

In early September 2012, videos of about 14 minutes in length that claimed to be trailers of a longer film named “Innocence of Muslims” were uploaded to YouTube. The film, which is claimed to contain offending content to the Muslim community, invoked demonstrations and violent protests in many Muslim countries and an attack on U.S. consulates and embassies.

July 25, 2013 02:00 PM Attack Report

Since October 2012, a large US Bank has been under attack as part of the infamous “Operation Ababil”. The bank has been unable to mitigate the attacks for more than 5 months and has suffered from continual service interruptions on the banks online services. On March 12th, another massive attack period started, but this time Radware DefensePro was already deployed onsite and Radware’s Emergency Response Team (ERT) was invoked. During the next few weeks the ERT worked closely with the bank to modify its system infrastructure and deploy Radware’s AMS until it achieved a successful mitigation for all attacks.

June 3, 2013 02:00 PM Attack Report

On April 7th, a Radware customer was targeted with DoS attacks assembled by the Anonymous group as part of an attack campaign on the Israeli cyberspace. The focus of this report is to analyze the attack on the customer’s networks and clients, while examining the magnitude of the attack. The report contains the attack vectors and tools that were used against the customer’s network based on ERT’s analysis. When analyzing the reports generated by DefensePro units installed on customer premises, ERT took a top-down approach, focusing on the most prominent attacks observed by bandwidth and number of incidents.

May 15, 2013 02:00 PM Attack Report

AnonGhost – A hacking group affiliated with Anonymous announced a new cyber-attack campaign against US websites named #OPUSA, scheduled for May 7th, 2013. The planned attack follows a similar attack campaign organized by AnonGhost that took place exactly one month earlier – on Apr 7th, 2013 and was launched against Israeli web sites (aka OPISRAEL).

April 29, 2013 02:00 PM Threat Alert

During the past week we noticed an abnormal increase of brute force attacks targeting WordPress applications. The attacks use automated scripts that attempt to login to WordPress default admin page using common usernames and passwords.

April 14, 2013 02:00 PM Attack Report

Various anti-Israeli hacking groups join hands to launch a massive cyber attack on Israeli cyber space with the aim to disconnect the country from the Internet. AnonGhost, one of the campaign central initiators, indicated that they will initiate the attack on the 7th of April.

April 6, 2013 02:00 PM Threat Alert

A fourth wave of DDoS attacks on banks and financial institutions has hit extending the 3rd phase of Operation Ababil. The attack identified by Radware's ERT is an SSL flood attack using two attack scripts uploaded by the attackers. Radware's ERT outlines the scripts and is actively mitigating these sophisticated attacks

April 3, 2013 02:00 PM Attack Report

A new wave of DDoS attacks on banks and financial institutions has hit launching the 3rd phase of Operation Ababil. The attacks are targeting major US banks and causing outages to their secured online services and website. Radware's ERT outlines the attack vectors being used and is actively mitigating these sophisticated attacks.

March 20, 2013 02:00 PM Attack Report