Ministry of Information of Iran
January 2, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Hackers from Turk Hack Team take down several Iranian government websites including Ministry of Information, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Energy and the official website of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran (president.ir).
BBC
December 31, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
All of the BBC's websites are unavailable following a DDoS attack.
Linode
December 29, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Virtual server host Linode is the target of a four day-long DDoS attack.
Rutgers University
December 29, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
Rutgers University is the target of a large-scale DDoS attack that keeps some of its systems down for four days between December 24 and December 28.
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.
