DDoS Threats & Security Attacks: DDoS Reports & Cyber Security Threats

Over the past several months, Radware researchers have been monitoring the evolution of a Mirai variant we have named "Dark.IoT." On August 19, 2021, Radware researchers discovered updated binaries for this unnamed botnet showing the operators are preparing to leverage yet another supply chain vulnerability disclosed recently by IoT Inspectors Research Lab.

August 24, 2021 11:18 AM Vulnerability

During the month of May, increasing tensions in the Middle East resulted in renewed hacktivist operations throughout the region. The digital attacks in May presented a certain level of risk for unprotected sites as threat actors targeted organizations in the telecommunications, financial sectors and government agencies. At the moment, physical actions have deescalated in the region since the last incursion, but digital attacks have persisted into June. Cyber events in the Middle East have become reactionary over the past year; cases of hacktivism in the region typically follow physical or political confrontations.

July 13, 2021 01:05 PM Threat Alert

In the past few weeks, Radware's Cloud DDoS Protection Service has been seeing a significant increase in DDoS activity and has been rapidly onboarding new customers in distress. Several internet service providers (ISPs) and cloud service providers (CSPs) have reported receiving ransom letters followed by DDoS attacks that impacted their services and availability.

June 11, 2021 12:24 PM Threat Alert

Weaponized exploits and mass scanning activity for two critical vCenter vulnerabilities. Attackers are actively scanning for two critical remote command execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in VMWare vCenter servers.

June 7, 2021 05:35 PM Threat Alert

A series of new zero-day exploits in Microsoft Exchange Servers discovered late last year has evolved into a global hacking spree now impacting hundreds of thousands of organizations worldwide.

March 16, 2021 02:00 PM Threat Alert

During the last week of December, 2020 and the first week of January, 2021, Radware customers were targeted by DDoS extortionists for a second time by a global ransom DDoS campaign that initially started in August.

January 22, 2021 09:43 AM Threat Alert

FireEye published their analysis of what turned out to be a global intrusion campaign, a supply chain attack "trojanizing" SolarWinds Orion software updates performed by an advanced and sophisticated threat actor and that distributes a backdoor dubbed SUNBURST.

December 15, 2020 12:00 AM Threat Alert

On December 1st, FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia announced that the company was hacked by what they believe was a sophisticated threat actor.

December 14, 2020 12:00 AM Threat Alert