Tagged: ddos

June 15, 2021 @ 8:44 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

An infamous cyber extortionist is back and is looking for your unprotected assets. The warning comes from cybersecurity and application delivery solutions provider Radware. This week they published a cybersecurity alert warning that Fancy Lazarus, a distributed denial of service (DDoS) extortionist, has returned with… Read More

September 2, 2020 @ 12:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

While TransUnion (NYSE:TRU) pursues a path of silence on the matter, yesterday’s outage is said to have been caused by a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDOS) according to an industry insider. The TransUnion site is currently live and working fine as of this report…. Read More

August 28, 2020 @ 3:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

The New Zealand Stock Exchange (NZX) has been under attack for several days now as a DDOS attack (distributed denial of service) crippled trading on the exchange. NZHerald claimed that Russian cybercrooks were behind the attack. On August 26, the NZX issued the following statement:… Read More

April 13, 2019 @ 10:58 am By Cali Haan  |  

Hackers have launched a 140 000-machine botnet DoS (denial of service) attack against servers hosting popular Bitcoin wallet service Electrum, Hard Fork reports, and millions of dollars of Bitcoins have already been stolen from Electrum wallet users as a result. Electrum is a bitcoin “hot… Read More

June 7, 2018 @ 3:52 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Notorious crypto exchange Bitfinex had its services suspended for three hours May 5th in a Distributed Denial of Service (DDos) attack that flooded Bitfinex’s online operations and overwhelmed its site. “The platform is under extreme load. We are investigating,” wrote Bitfinex on its website status… Read More

November 26, 2017 @ 1:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

Earlier this month we were attending an ICO event in Manhattan when we happened to catch a pitch by Gladius, a company that is in the midst of an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). The concept of Gladius is interesting as it seeks to accomplish a… Read More