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

A new group of hacktivists is on the rise with a planned DDoS attack on some of the world’s largest organizations including Apple, Bank of America, British Telecom and Bank of China. The new group, known as TheWikiBoat, is not related to Anonymous, although they might share the same ideas as Anonymous. The hackers’ team is calling for supporters from around the world to join the attack and to support their actions.

May 22, 2012 02:00 PM Threat Alert

Cisco IOS XR Software contains vulnerability when handling crafted packets that may result in a denial of service condition. The vulnerability only exists on Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR) Route Switch Processor (RSP-4G and RSP-8G), Route Switch Processor 440 (RSP440), and Cisco Carrier Routing System (CRS) Performance Route Processor (PRP).

April 30, 2012 02:00 PM Vulnerability

The customer, a major financial institution in the United States, was targeted with a multi-vulnerability DDoS attack by the Anonymous collective as part of a large attack campaign. This attack lasted for about nine hours. On the same day, the customer notified ERT with the following information “We have received credible information that an Anonymous kind of attack is being targeted on (our site) tomorrow”; the attack started three hours later than planned.

April 25, 2012 02:00 PM Attack Report

This attack case summary describes one of the real life attacks which was experienced by a Radware customer and successfully mitigated thanks to Radware’s DefensePro product and Radware’s Emergency Response Team (ERT) expertise. The customer’s name is undisclosed for privacy purposes and is referenced by “customer” in this report.

April 16, 2012 02:00 PM Attack Report

The customer is a religious entity which was targeted by an hacktivist group for its “doctrine” and “concepts”. According to some sources, the attack also appears to have been triggered by a security firm report explaining it was able to protect the customer from DDoS attacks.The attack lasted three days and was comprised of five attack vectors; one of the attack vectors was particularly exotic using a HTTP fingerprinting attack vector.

March 20, 2012 02:00 PM Attack Report

Recently, a new DDOS attack tool was introduced dubbed as HOIC – High Orbit Ion Cannon. Although developed for testing purposes (according to the developer disclaimer)this tool is evidently used maliciously in the wild. HOIC is running as windows executables and has GUI control.

December 31, 2011 01:00 PM Attack Tool

Dirt Jumper (previously known as RussKill) is a very popular Distributed Denial of Service Bot being heavily used in the DDOS-for-hire business online. By visiting underground forums, one can find many variants and versions of Dirt Jumper offered for sale. Since the source code for different versions of Dirt Jumper can now be found for free in some underground forums, Dirt Jumper continues to evolve and over time many versions and variants have come into play.

January 31, 2011 02:00 PM Attack Tool

Low Orbit Ion Canon (LOIC) is an open source network stress testing and Denial of Service (DoS) attack application that was initially developed by Praetox Technologies and later released into the public domain. LOIC is a flooding tool that runs on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X generating massive amounts of TCP, UDP and HTTP packets. It performs DoS attacks on the target site by flooding the server with non-legitimate packets in order to disrupt the service of a particular host.

November 30, 2010 02:00 PM Attack Tool