The Russian hacktivist collective Killnet attacked some public websites of Nato. According to reports, the attack may have affected Nato’s Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC), a programme for military airlift covering 12 member states using Boeing C-17 Globemaster III aircraft. Read more here
The website of the LockBit ransomware operations, a space where the hackers were publishing the data stolen through their operations, fell offline due to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack allegedly launched in response to the cybercriminals. Read more on Security Week.
While the Italian State Police had managed to thwart cyber attacks against the Eurovision Song Contest on 14 May 2022, the cyber criminals group Killnet is allegedly behind the DDoS attack which is blocking the website of the Italian State Police. Read more here and here.
The Italian Computer Security Incident Response Team has released an overview of the recent Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that occurred starting from 11 May this year. First of all, the type of DDOS attacks used is identified, in particular the “Slow HTTP” attack, then the operating technique of this attack is described and...
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