Incidents  

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • October 12th, 2016
Bitcoin Wallet Blockchain.info Recovers from DNS Hijacking Attack

Bitcoin Wallet Blockchain.info Recovers from DNS Hijacking Attack

At the time of writing, everything is back to normal

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • October 10th, 2016
2015 TV5Monde Hack Almost Destroyed TV Station's Infrastructure

2015 TV5Monde Hack Almost Destroyed TV Station's Infrastructure

TV5Monde General Director reveals more details

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • October 5th, 2016
Akamai Post-Mortem Report Confirms Mirai as Source of Krebs DDoS Attacks

Akamai Post-Mortem Report Confirms Mirai as Source of Krebs DDoS Attacks

Almost half of Mirai bots located in the EMEA region

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • September 25th, 2016
Krebs Back Online After Getting Help from Google's Project Shield

Krebs Back Online After Getting Help from Google's Project Shield

Apparently Google's Project Shield is not just a PR stunt

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • September 23rd, 2016
Akamai Boots Krebs from Their Network After Never-Ending DDoS Attack

Akamai Boots Krebs from Their Network After Never-Ending DDoS Attack

DDoS attacks on Krebs' website achieve their goal

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • September 23rd, 2016
Ethereum Network Under Computational DDoS Attack

Ethereum Network Under Computational DDoS Attack

Bitcoin alternative was under attack this week

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • September 22nd, 2016
Alleged Hack of Steam Bitcoin Trader Concludes with a Happy Ending

Alleged Hack of Steam Bitcoin Trader Concludes with a Happy Ending

Users get their funds back as Coinbase admits snafu

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • September 22nd, 2016
DDoS-for-Hire Community Strikes Back at Krebs with Record 620 Gbps DDoS Attack

DDoS-for-Hire Community Strikes Back at Krebs with Record 620 Gbps DDoS Attack

Akamai says this might be the biggest DDoS ever recorded

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • September 15th, 2016
Ammyy Admin Website Compromised to Spread Cerber 3 Ransomware

Ammyy Admin Website Compromised to Spread Cerber 3 Ransomware

Cerber is the seventh different malware variant distributed by the Ammyy Admin website in the past year

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • September 12th, 2016
Seagate Sued by Own Staff After Exec Falls for Phishing Scam

Seagate Sued by Own Staff After Exec Falls for Phishing Scam

Employees are reporting tax fraud attempts

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • September 12th, 2016
Fire Drill Gone Bad Shuts Down An ING Bank Data Center for Ten Hours

Fire Drill Gone Bad Shuts Down An ING Bank Data Center for Ten Hours

High-pitched sound destroys bank's data storage drives

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • September 10th, 2016
Journalist Under Attack After Exposing DDoS-for-Hire Service

Journalist Under Attack After Exposing DDoS-for-Hire Service

128 Gbps DDoS attack hits Brian Krebs' website

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • September 6th, 2016
Retiring Sysadmin Fakes Cyber-Attack to Get Away with Data Theft

Retiring Sysadmin Fakes Cyber-Attack to Get Away with Data Theft

He did it because he wanted a house in a seaside town

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • September 3rd, 2016
Pro-Ukraine Hackers Leak Personal Details of Ukrainian and Foreign Journalists

Pro-Ukraine Hackers Leak Personal Details of Ukrainian and Foreign Journalists

Only the journalists reporting from the pro-Russia regions of Ukraine were included in the data dump

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • September 2nd, 2016
Attackers Combine Three Botnets to Launch Massive DDoS Attack

Attackers Combine Three Botnets to Launch Massive DDoS Attack

Crooks use a botnet of CCTV cameras, one of home routers, and one made up by compromised web servers

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • August 31st, 2016
One of Europe's Biggest Companies Loses €40 Million in Online Scam

One of Europe's Biggest Companies Loses €40 Million in Online Scam

German electrical cable maker Leoni falls victim to BEC scam

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • August 31st, 2016
More Banks Lose Money via SWIFT Transaction System Heists

More Banks Lose Money via SWIFT Transaction System Heists

SWIFT warns banks of newly discovered cyber-heists

 
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