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12311324881?profile=RESIZE_400xHacktivist group Killnet rose to prominence in 2022.  After the launch of SVO, it openly sided with Russia. It carried out high-profile DDoS attacks against significant targets such as the US Federal Tax Service, the European Union’s banking systems SWIFT, and the American arms company Lockheed IBAN. Martin et al.  At the same time, little was known for a long time about the identity of its leader, hacker Killmilk. In the public sphere, he formed the image of a great patriot of the Russian Feder

12253783290?profile=RESIZE_400xPolitically-motivated hackers from all over the world have leapt into the escalating conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas.  Hacktivists are using tactics similar to what was seen at the beginning of the Ukraine-Russia war: leaking stolen documents and launching distributed denial-of-service and defacement attacks on government websites, media outlets, and critical infrastructure.[1]

The recent surge in hacktivism comes on the heels of the Red Cross issuing ethical guidelines f

11029414468?profile=RESIZE_400xCloudflare has recently released their Q1 DDoS threat report [5].  Thus, this is a good point for a discussion on DDoS attacks and some of the newer techniques involved with them.  First, we’ll get a little bit of a refresher on what DDoS attacks are, how they manifest and how things look when a service is being attacked, and how they can be detected.  From there, we’ll go into the typical mechanics of how a DDoS attack takes place and what sort of techniques and methods tend to be involved.  Th

10966651484?profile=RESIZE_400xWith many countries assisting Turkey and Syria in earthquake response, hackers are in the process of trying to disrupt the communication processes.  The Russian hacktivist collective Killnet has carried out a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against NATO, causing temporary disruption to some of the military alliance’s public-facing websites.  The Killnet operation had previously said through its closed channel on the encrypted Telegram service that it was initiating attacks

10839200683?profile=RESIZE_400xSome of the largest airports in the US have been targeted for cyber-attacks; as recent as 10 October, by an attacker group within the Russian Federation.  It’s important to note that the airport operations IT systems targeted did not handle air traffic control, internal airline communications and coordination or transportation security.  "It's an inconvenience," the source said. The attacks have resulted in targeted "denial of public access" to public-facing web domains that report airport wait

10614408283?profile=RESIZE_400xActivity Summary - Week Ending on 1 July 2022:

  • Red Sky Alliance identified 40,622 connections from new IP’s checking in with our Sinkholes
  • MS hit 45 x – 2nd week
  • Analysts identified 1,801 new IP addresses participating in various Botnets
  • DeadLocker
  • Symbiote
  • Killnet
  • СПИСОК_посилань_на_інтерактивні_карти[.]docx
  • Apple, Google and theUS FTC
  • Guns and California Data Hacks

Link to full report: IR-22-182-001_weekly182.pdf