Cyber Attacks

Staminus Communications, a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) protection service provider, was hacked in a major security breach this morning, knocking the network down for more than 20 hours.

Pawn Stormpawnstorm, the long-running cyber espionage campaign, added several government offices and one of the largest newspapers in Turkey to its long list of targets.

Authorities may have finally ended a series of cyber-attacks on the U.S. government and its officials after arresting the operation's alleged leader—a UK-based teen.

The networks of a Hollywood hospital have been crippled by a ransomware attack with a $3.6M ransom.

What we know about BlackEnergy, a Trojan known to have been used in attacks on Ukraine power providers that caused a massive outage in late 2015.

Hackers published data that included personal information of 20,000 FBI employees and almost 10,000 DHS employees acquired in a recent breach.

Chinese e-commerce website Taobao reportedly detected a hack attempt that involved the use of 20 million possibly compromised accounts.

Over the past few years, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have been used to disrupt online operations for different motivations that range from activism to extortion. What is a DDoS attack and how does it work?

Another power provider just reported being hit by a “severe“ attack, barely a month after the Ukrainian power grid was brought down by malware.