Tag: ddos
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âš¡ Weekly Recap: Fortinet Exploit, Chrome 0-Day, BadIIS Malware, Record DDoS, SaaS Breach & More
This week saw a lot of new cyber trouble. Hackers hit Fortinet and Chrome with new 0-day bugs. They also broke into supply chains and SaaS tools. Many hid inside trusted apps, browser alerts, and software updates.Big firms like Microsoft, Salesforce, and Google had to react fast, stopping DDoS attacks, blocking bad links, and fixing…
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âš¡ Weekly Recap: Fortinet Exploit, Chrome 0-Day, BadIIS Malware, Record DDoS, SaaS Breach & More
This week saw a lot of new cyber trouble. Hackers hit Fortinet and Chrome with new 0-day bugs. They also broke into supply chains and SaaS tools. Many hid inside trusted apps, browser alerts, and software updates.Big firms like Microsoft, Salesforce, and Google had to react fast, stopping DDoS attacks, blocking bad links, and fixing…
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âš¡ Weekly Recap: Fortinet Exploit, Chrome 0-Day, BadIIS Malware, Record DDoS, SaaS Breach & More
This week saw a lot of new cyber trouble. Hackers hit Fortinet and Chrome with new 0-day bugs. They also broke into supply chains and SaaS tools. Many hid inside trusted apps, browser alerts, and software updates.Big firms like Microsoft, Salesforce, and Google had to react fast, stopping DDoS attacks, blocking bad links, and fixing…
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âš¡ Weekly Recap: Fortinet Exploit, Chrome 0-Day, BadIIS Malware, Record DDoS, SaaS Breach & More
This week saw a lot of new cyber trouble. Hackers hit Fortinet and Chrome with new 0-day bugs. They also broke into supply chains and SaaS tools. Many hid inside trusted apps, browser alerts, and software updates.Big firms like Microsoft, Salesforce, and Google had to react fast, stopping DDoS attacks, blocking bad links, and fixing…
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Cloudflare Outage: Should You Go Multi-CDN?
As a DDoS testing and resilience consultancy, we routinely advise our clients to strengthen their architecture by using a reputable CDN like Cloudflare. After this week’s Cloudflare outage, however, many organizations are understandably asking themselves a new question: Should we adopt a multi-CDN strategy instead of relying on a single provider? For the vast majority……
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US Border Patrol Is Spying on Millions of American Drivers
Plus: The SEC lets SolarWinds off the hook, Microsoft stops a historic DDoS attack, and FBI documents reveal the agency spied on an immigration activist Signal group in New York City. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/security-news-this-week-us-border-patrol-is-spying-on-millions-of-american-drivers/
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Cloudflare broke itself and a big chunk of the Internet with a bad database query
Thought it was the victim of a ‘hyper-scale DDoS attack’ before finding the fix First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/11/19/cloudflare_incident_report/
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US, allies sanction Russian bulletproof hosting firm
Authorities say the company helped ransomware gangs and supported DDoS attacks. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/russian-bulletproof-hosting-company-sanctions-us-australia-uk/805911/
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Record-breaking DDoS attack against Microsoft Azure mitigated
The attack was linked to the Aisuru botnet, which targets compromised home routers and cameras. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/record-ddos-attack-microsoft-azure/805886/
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Cloudflare Blames Outage on Internal Configuration Error
Initially though to be a DDoS attack, the incident was actually due to a routine change in permissions that caused widespread software failure. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/cloudflare-blames-outage-internal-error
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Cloudflare Blames Outage on Internal Configuration Error
Initially though to be a DDoS attack, the incident was actually due to a routine change in permissions that caused widespread software failure. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/cloudflare-blames-outage-internal-error
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Record-Breaking Cloud Incident Brings Outage Through the Internet
November 18, 2025 Cloudflare Global Outage (not a DDoS) The timing and Cloudflare’s brief initial misdiagnosis caused widespread confusion, with many people incorrectly believing Cloudflare had been DDoSed. Some reports even mentioned that the Cloudflare Incident was linked to an earlier DDoS incident towards Microsoft Azure. In reality, the two events were unrelated. October…The post…
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Record-Breaking Cloud Incident Brings Outage Through the Internet
November 18, 2025 Cloudflare Global Outage (not a DDoS) The timing and Cloudflare’s brief initial misdiagnosis caused widespread confusion, with many people incorrectly believing Cloudflare had been DDoSed. Some reports even mentioned that the Cloudflare Incident was linked to an earlier DDoS incident towards Microsoft Azure. In reality, the two events were unrelated. October…The post…
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Microsoft Fends Off Massive DDoS Attack by Aisuru Botnet Operators
Microsoft mitigated what it called a record-breaking DDoS attack by bad actor using the Aisuru botnet, a collection of about 300,000 infected IoT devices. The size of the attack and the botnet used in it is the latest example of a DDoS environment that continues to scale in pace with the internet. First seen on…
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Microsoft Fends Off Massive DDoS Attack by Aisuru Botnet Operators
Microsoft mitigated what it called a record-breaking DDoS attack by bad actor using the Aisuru botnet, a collection of about 300,000 infected IoT devices. The size of the attack and the botnet used in it is the latest example of a DDoS environment that continues to scale in pace with the internet. First seen on…
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Pro-Russian group claims hits on Danish party websites as voters head to polls
Voting was not disrupted Tuesday by a wave of DDoS incidents affecting political party and government websites in Denmark a day earlier, officials said. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/denmark-election-political-government-websites-ddos-incidents
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Microsoft Azure Fends Off ‘Largest DDoS Attack Ever Observed in the Cloud’
Microsoft confirmed that Azure blocked a denial-of-service attack that involved more than 500,000 IP addresses spread across multiple regions. The post Microsoft Azure Fends Off ‘Largest DDoS Attack Ever Observed in the Cloud’ appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/microsoft-azure-attack-aisuru-botnet/
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Energiesektor im Visier von Hackern
Tags: ai, awareness, bsi, cisa, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, ddos, defense, detection, germany, hacker, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, iot, nis-2, password, ransomware, resilience, risk, risk-analysis, risk-management, soc, threat, ukraine, update, usa, vulnerabilityEnergieversorger müssen ihre Systeme vor immer raffinierteren Cyberangriffen schützen.Die Energieversorgung ist das Rückgrat moderner Gesellschaften. Stromnetze, Gaspipelines und digitale Steuerungssysteme bilden die Grundlage für Industrie, Transport und öffentliche Dienstleistungen. Doch mit der zunehmenden Digitalisierung wächst auch die Angriffsfläche. In den vergangenen Jahren ist der Energiesektor verstärkt ins Visier von Cyberkriminellen und staatlich unterstützten Angreifern geraten.…
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Azure blocks record 15 Tbps DDoS attack as IoT botnets gain new firepower
Mitigation strategies: Prabhu said CISOs should now test whether their control planes can withstand attacks above 15 Tbps, how to contain cloud cost spikes triggered by auto-scaling during an incident, and how to keep critical services running if defenses are overwhelmed. “CISOs can stress test these benchmarks through DDoS simulations and evaluation of CSP infrastructure…
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Microsoft Mitigates Record 15.72 Tbps DDoS Attack Driven by AISURU Botnet
Microsoft on Monday disclosed that it automatically detected and neutralized a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeting a single endpoint in Australia that measured 15.72 terabits per second (Tbps) and nearly 3.64 billion packets per second (pps).The tech giant said it was the largest DDoS attack ever observed in the cloud, and that it originated from…
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500.000 IP-Adressen beteiligt: Rekord-DDoS-Botnetz attackiert Microsoft Azure
Ein großes DDoS-Botnetz, das ständig neue Rekorde aufstellt, hat Microsofts Azure-Cloud erwischt. Die Datenflut erreichte bis zu 15,72 Tbps. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/500-000-ip-adressen-beteiligt-rekord-ddos-botnetz-attackiert-microsoft-azure-2511-202293.html
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Microsoft Azure Blocks 15.72 Tbps Aisuru Botnet DDoS Attack
Microsoft Azure halted a record 15.72 Tbps DDoS attack from the Aisuru botnet exposing risks created by exposed home devices exploited in large-scale cyber attacks. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/microsoft-azure-blocks-tbps-ddos-attack-botnet/
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Microsoft Mitigates Record 5.72 Tbps DDoS Attack Driven by AISURU Botnet
Microsoft on Monday disclosed that it automatically detected and neutralized a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeting a single endpoint in Australia that measured 5.72 terabits per second (Tbps) and nearly 3.64 billion packets per second (pps).The tech giant said it was the largest DDoS attack ever observed in the cloud, and that it originated from…
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Massive 15 Tbps DDoS Attack From 500K Devices Slams Azure Network
Microsoft Azure successfully defended against a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 15.72 terabits per second (Tbps), making it the most significant DDoS attack ever observed in the cloud. On October 24, 2025, Azure’s DDoS Protection system automatically detected and mitigated a massive multi-vector attack targeting a single endpoint in Australia. The assault generated…
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A Perfect Storm: DDoS Attack Hits Turkish Luxury Retailer During Fall Collection Launch
When high-stakes events meet unprecedented attack volumes, disruption can be devastating. A Turkish luxury retail platform experienced this firsthand when it was hit with a record-breaking application-layer DDoS attack, peaking at 14.2 million requests per second (RPS). This marks the largest DDoS attack Imperva has observed to date. The timing wasn’t accidental. The attack began……
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A Perfect Storm: DDoS Attack Hits Turkish Luxury Retailer During Fall Collection Launch
When high-stakes events meet unprecedented attack volumes, disruption can be devastating. A Turkish luxury retail platform experienced this firsthand when it was hit with a record-breaking application-layer DDoS attack, peaking at 14.2 million requests per second (RPS). This marks the largest DDoS attack Imperva has observed to date. The timing wasn’t accidental. The attack began……
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‘Largest-ever’ cloud DDoS attack pummels Azure with 3.64B packets per second
Aisuru botnet strikes again, bigger and badder First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/11/17/biggest_cloud_ddos_attack_azure/
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Microsoft mitigated the largest cloud DDoS ever recorded, 15.7 Tbps
Microsoft says the Aisuru botnet launched a 15.7 Tbps DDoS on Azure from 500k IPs, using massive UDP floods peaking at 3.6 B pps. On October 24, 2025, Azure DDoS Protection detected and mitigated a massive multi-vector attack peaking at 15.72 Tbps and 3.64 billion pps, the largest cloud DDoS ever recorded, aimed at a…
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Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500,000 IP addresses
Microsoft said today that the Aisuru botnet hit its Azure network with a 15.72 terabits per second (Tbps) DDoS attack, launched from over 500,000 IP addresses. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-aisuru-botnet-used-500-000-ips-in-15-tbps-azure-ddos-attack/