National Crime Agency
November 9, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The UK's National Crime Agency public web site is briefly taken down by a DDoS attack.
Bank of Moscow
November 8, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
A hacker called vimproducts claims to have taken down several Russian banks including the Moscow Exchange, the Bank of Moscow, Rosbank, and Alfa-Bank.
Two properties in the city of Lappeenranta
November 7, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, energy ]
A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack halted heating distribution in at least two properties in the city of Lappeenranta, located in eastern Finland. In both of the events the attacks disabled the computers that were controlling heating in the buildings.
Unknown Organization
November 7, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Anonymous claim to have shut down part of Scotland Yard's website (content.met.police.uk) for eight hours in revenge for dozens of arrests during the annual Million Mask March on parliament in London.
RTFB
October 24, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The Syrian Cyber Army claims responsibility for DDoS attacks against several Belgian media news outlets including De Standaard, Het Nieuwsblad, Gazet van Antwerpen, Het Belang van Limburg, and RTFB.
StarHub
October 24, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
A new DDoS attack hits the infrastructure of StarHub.
StarHub
October 22, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Singapore telecommunications company StarHub is the target of a DDoS attack (once again carried on flooding the company with bogus DNS queries).
Sony PlayStation Network
October 21, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The Sony Playstation Network is the target of the Mirai botnet DDoS attack.
Unknown Organization
September 18, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Blizzard's Battle.net servers are knocked offline by yet another denial-of-service (DDoS) attack claimed by hacking group PoodleCorp.
Unknown Organization
September 9, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
Turkish hackers have launched DoS (Denial-of-Service) attacks against the web servers of the Austrian National Bank (OeNB).
KrebsOnSecurity
September 9, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Security researcher Brian Krebs' website KrebsOnSecurity comes under "heavy and sustainable" attack after two 18 year-old Israeli hackers were arrested over their connection with a DDoS-for-hire service called vDOS.
vDoS
September 8, 2016
•[ hack, leak, ddos ]
vDos, a "booter" service that has earned in excess of $600,000 over the past two years helping customers coordinate more than 150,000 DDoS attacks is massively hacked, spilling secrets about tens of thousands of paying customers and their targets.
Unknown Organization
September 7, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Servers belonging to the Project on Crowdsourced Imagery Analysis (PCIA), hosting data about nuclear tests, have been the subject of DDoS attacks just two days before North Korea's most recent nuclear tests.
Linode
September 2, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Linode reports the first of a series of DoS attacks on September 2nd, September 4th and September 5th. Another round will strike the company on Saturday, September 10th. Some of the attacks lasted up to eight hours.
Unknown Organization
August 9, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Millions of Australian citizens hoping to take part in the country's first ever digital census are left frustrated after the website used to complete the survey is taken down by a DDoS attack.
michaelphelps
August 7, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
New World Hackers claim responsibility for taking down the personal website of Michael Phelps.
GTAOnline
August 4, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
And this time the PoodleCorp collective claims to have taken down the GTA (Grand Theft Auto) website.
PlayStation Network
August 4, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The PoodleCorp collective claims to have taken down the PlayStation Network servers.
Unknown Organization
August 3, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Blizzard's Battle.net servers are hit by a massive DDoS attack causing latency, connection and login issues across popular games such as Overwatch, World of Warcraft and Hearthstone.
League of Legends
August 3, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
And the PoodleCorp collective also claims to have taken down the website of League of Legends (leagueoflegends.com)
