Isbank
December 26, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
Anonymous claims responsibility for the wave of DDoS attacks against Turkey (accusing the government of supporting ISIS) and starts a second wave against some Turkish leading banks such as Isbank, Garanti and Ziraat Bank.
Steam
December 25, 2015
•[ ddos, misconfiguration, technology ]
A DDoS attack against Steam causes the company to deploy a new caching configuration in production, which leads to the inadvertent exposure of 34,000 users.
EA
December 24, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Phantom Squad, the group of hackers who threatened to ruin Christmas for gamers decide to keep their promise and take down the Electronic Arts servers.
Xbox Live
December 18, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Phantom Squad prepare their Christmas campaign and claim responsibility for a DDoS attack on Microsoft's Xbox Live service.
NIC
December 17, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Turkey National Domain Registrar NIC.tr is the victim of a sustained DDoS attack that affects the entire national Internet infrastructure.
City of Boston
December 16, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Several Internet services in Boston are disrupted by a DDoS attack, defined as a "minor act of cybervandalism" . The outage, affects city agencies and the police and fire departments.
Moonfruit
December 14, 2015
•[ ransomware, ddos, technology ]
After suffering a DDoS attack by the infamous Armada Collective, Moonfruit takes down all the websites to enhance the defences and avoid to pay the ransom.
Danish Parliament
December 11, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Danish Parliament website folketinget.dk is taken offline in a DDoS attack.
Japanese Prime Minister
December 10, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The website of Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (s-abe.or.jp) is taken down by a DDoS attack. The hacktivist collective Anonymous is suspected to be the author of the attack on the site in protest of the nation's whale hunting policy.
DNS root servers
December 9, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
On November 30, 2015 and December 1, 2015, over two separate intervals, several of the Internet Domain Name System's root name servers are the target of a massive DDoS attack.
Janet
December 7, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
UK publicly-funded academic computer network Janet comes under a persistent DDoS attack today.
Iceland government
November 30, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
In the name of #OpWhales, the Anonymous take down almost all the Iceland government websites for about 13 hours as a protest against the whaling practices in Iceland.
Unknown Organization
November 25, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
Turkish hackers from Turk Hack Team take down the official website of Russian Central Bank (cbr.ru) amid tension near Syrian-Turkey border.
Graham Cluley Blog
November 13, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The website of the security blogger Graham Cluley (https://grahamcluley.com) is taken down by a DDoS attack.
Hushmail
November 9, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Hushmail experiences two unscheduled service outages resulting from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
Fastmail
November 9, 2015
•[ financial, ddos, technology ]
FastMail is hit by a DDoS attack that briefly make some services unavailable. A further attack is executed on Monday, 9 Nov. Both attacks are accompanied by an extortion demand that threaten further attacks if the company does not pay the attacker 20 Bitcoin.
Swedbank
November 6, 2015
•[ ransomware, ddos, finance ]
Swedbank is taken down by a DDoS attack. A hacker called CocaineSecurity claims to have received a ransom.
ProtonMail
November 5, 2015
•[ ransomware, ddos, technology ]
A collective called Armada Collective takes down Protonmail, a Swiss provider of end-to-end encrypted email. The company pays a ransom of 15 BTC (6000 USD) but is taken down again after paying.
Runbox
November 5, 2015
•[ financial, ddos, technology ]
Runbox is subjected to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Even in this case the attackers demand a ransom to stop the waves of attack.
Zoho
November 4, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Zoho is subject to a DDoS attack. The attack starts on November the 4th and affects the company for one week.
