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

In early September of 2012, short videos claiming to be “trailers” of a longer film entitled “Innocence of Muslims” was uploaded to YouTube. The film, which claimed to contain offending content to the Muslim community, has invoked demonstrations and violent protests in many Muslim countries which included an attack on U.S consulates and embassies. On September 18th , 2012 a group called “Cyber fighters of Izz ad-din Al qassam” announced an upcoming cyber attack campaign and called for an attack on what they claimed to be ‘American and Zionist’ targets. The attack campaign was named “Operation Ababil” which was also the name of a failed Pakistani military operation that occurred in April, 1984.

February 6, 2013 01:00 PM Attack Report

This tool allows a single computer to knock web servers offline by targeting a well-known weakness in secure sockets layer implementations. All it takes is one computer with a simple Internet connection to use this tool to successfully attack.

January 15, 2013 01:00 PM Attack Tool

The recent Israel Defense Forces ‘Operation Pillar of Cloud’ in the Gaza Strip, which was officially launched on 14 November, 2012, has raised strong protests from the Anonymous cyber group, which have in response launched #OpIsrael, a cyber-attack campaign whose main objectives are: Ensure communication channels availability in the Gaza Strip, and provide alternative communication methods in case of an Israeli communication blackout as part of the military operation, Take down Israeli and Israeli related Web sites, Deface Israeli sites and promote anti-Israeli agendas, and Stop the violence.

November 14, 2012 01:00 PM Threat Alert

This attack report describes an attack campaign against a country (Israel) and how several sites in this country were attacked simultaneously over a full week. A Pro Palestinian hackers group, the “Nightmare group” and 0xomar, a Saudi hacker member of the Saudi Arabian Anonymous collective, have disclosed credit card information of thousands of Israeli citizens, later leading to retaliation action by Israeli hackers. Prior to the attack, the media reported that few Israeli websites, both in public and private sectors, were about to be attacked.

August 20, 2012 02:00 PM Attack Report

The customer, a high-profile Government entity, was targeted by a DDoS attack in the context of a wider campaign against Government sites in this country. In the days preceding the attack, Anonymous published warnings and threats of attacks through their usual means of communication (Youtube, Twitter, Facebook). The site was protected by a DefensePro device, just installed and configured few days ago. ERT, which was invoked, logged in on the day of the attack to tune the device which successfully mitigated the attack and the website was available to users.

August 20, 2012 02:00 PM Attack Report

An event with the magnitude of the Summer Olympics is a likely target for many attack threats, including IT security attacks. Radware security researchers have found that the Olympic Games website is on the radar of hackers who published an HOIC booster script on pastebin. The time or size of these potential attacks is unknown.

July 29, 2012 02:00 PM Threat Alert

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

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