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Bank Info Security 7 months, 1 week ago

React Flaw Mitigation Leads to Cloudflare Outage

Outage Briefly Took Down Zoom, LinkedIn and Other WebsitesContent delivery network giant Cloudflare is investigating a brief outage early Friday that took down multiple websites. The incident marks the second outage in the span of a month, although the causes are unrelated. It stemmed from how Cloudflare's web application firewall parses requests.

Krebs on Security 10 months, 4 weeks ago

Oregon Man Charged in ‘Rapper Bot’ DDoS Service

A 22-year-old Oregon man has been arrested on suspicion of operating "Rapper Bot," a massive botnet used to power a service for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against targets -- including a March 2025 DDoS that knocked Twitter/X offline. The Justice Department asserts the suspect and an unidentified co-conspirator rented out the botnet to online extortionists, and tried to stay off the radar of law enforcement by ensuring that their botnet was never pointed at KrebsOnSecurity.

Source code, moderator info, IP addresses, more allegedly swiped and leaked Thousands of 4chan users reported outages Monday night amid rumors on social media that the edgy anonymous imageboard had been ransacked by an intruder, with someone on a rival forum claiming to have leaked its source code, moderator identities, and users' IP addresses.…

Bank Info Security 1 year, 4 months ago

Knockout of X Tied to Pro-Palestinian Hacktivists' Botnet

Experts Express Surprise Over Major Social Platform Falling Victim to DDoS AttacksOne of the world's biggest social networks continued to face intermittent outages Tuesday, apparently due to unsophisticated, distributed denial-of-service attacks. Experts said the attacks were traced to malware-infected devices - many based in the U.S. - and pro-Palestinian hacktivists.

Bank Info Security 1 year, 4 months ago

X Social Media Platform Hit by Apparent DDoS

'Dark Storm Team" Takes Responsibility for 4 Major Outages on MondayRepeated outages Monday on social media platform X - formerly Twitter - are the result of a distributed denial of service attack, asserted platform owner Elon Musk in a sporadically available tweet. The social media platform experienced four significant outages.

Also: New 'magnet of threats' attackers and FBI has details on Iran's online incursion into Albania Iran is experiencing a near-total internet service disruption in the west and intermittent interruptions nationwide, with access to Instagram, Whatsapp and some mobile networks being blocked, says Netblocks.…

Operators used social media to distort status of fighting, instill panic in residents Ukraine's security agency has shut down five bot farms since the start of Russia's invasion of the country almost five weeks ago, slowing down a Russian operation designed to spread disinformation in the war-torn country and to sow panic among its frightened residents.…

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