The first article is about a Russian threat group – NoName057(16) – which has claimed it launched a number of DDoS attacks again UK local government websites: Pro-Russia hackers claim Greater Manchester council cyber attacks – BBC News The affected councils have reported that the functionality of their websites suffered …
Port of Tyne
The Port of Tyne has confirmed it has been a victim of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyber-attack. Port of Tyne website hit by cyber attack – BBC News Your takeaway This type of attack is mainly targeted to disrupt the operation of an organisation’s online services – denying access to …
How much internet traffic is malicious?
Cloudflare, a company best known for protecting clients from various flavours of denial of service attacks, has done the research and calculated that 6.8% of all internet traffic is out to get you. This is an increase of last year’s findings. Application Security report: 2024 update – Cloudflare Cloudflare believes …
Denial of Service attacks
Denial of Service attacks (DoS) or Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are not something many of our clients have to worry about directly. However our clients are often impacted when services they rely on come under attack. OpenAI confirms DDoS attacks behind ongoing ChatGPT outages (bleepingcomputer.com) This attack probably …
CISA Security Advisories
Regular readers know that I use the US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) website as a reliable source of information on software and hardware vulnerabilities. Ones that impact the organisations we support are escalated to our support team, then I write about those and the rest here, for …