Tag Archives: DDoS

Record-breaking distributed denial of service attack targets Russia’s version of Google – Yandex. Technical details tied to a record-breaking distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Russian internet behemoth Yandex are surfacing as the digital dust settles. A massive botnet, dubbed Mēris, is believed responsible, flooding Yandex with millions of HTTP requests for webpages at the same time. This DDoS technique is… Source link

Russian internet giant Yandex is reportedly grappling with the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the Russian-language community on the internet and websites collectively known as Runet.  The news comes courtesy of Russian-language publication Vedomosti who claim the scale of the attack was confirmed by Cloudflare.  According to BleepingComputer, Runet was conceptualized to function independently of the world wide web, and maintain unified country-wide communication… Source link

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A cyber attack on Russian tech giant Yandex’s servers in August and September was the largest known distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in the history of the internet, the company said on Thursday. The DDoS attack, in which hackers try to flood a network with unusually high volumes of data traffic in order to paralyse it when it can no longer cope with the scale of data requested, began in August and reached a record level on Sept. 5. “Our experts did… Source link

Reuters Standard Chartered sees bitcoin hitting $100,000 by early next year A new cryptocurrency research team at Standard Chartered has predicted bitcoin will double in value and hit $100,000 by early next year and that it could be worth as much as $175,000 longer-term. The bank also said it “structurally” valued Ethereum, the second-most traded crypto asset, at $26,000-$35,000 although to reach that level bitcoin would have to be near $175,000. “As a medium of exchange, bitcoin may become… Source link

The logo of Russian internet group Yandex is pictured at the company’s headquarter in Moscow, Russia October 4, 2018. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov MOSCOW, Sept 9 (Reuters) – A cyber attack on Russian tech giant Yandex’s servers (YNDX.O) in August and September was the largest known distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in the history of the internet, the company said on Thursday. The DDoS attack, in which hackers try to flood a network with unusually high volumes of data traffic in order to… Source link

MOSCOW, Sept 9 (Reuters) – A cyber attack on Russian tech giant Yandex’s servers in August and September was the largest known distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in the history of the internet, the company said on Thursday. The DDoS attack, in which hackers try to flood a network with unusually high volumes of data traffic in order to paralyse it when it can no longer cope… Source link

Russian internet giant Yandex has been targeted in a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that started last week and and it reportedly continues this week. A report in Russian media says that the assault is the largest in the short history of the Russian internet, the RuNet, and that it was confirmed by a U.S.-based company. RuNet is the Russian segment of the internet, created to function independently of the worldwide web. Its purpose is to maintain the unified… Source link

Shortly after being entwined in a legal decision in the U.K., the Bitcoin.org website has faced another battle, this time on the technical front. According to the site’s pseudonymous operator, Cobra, Bitcoin.org was hit with an “absolutely massive” distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. CoinDesk was able to access the site without issue. Decrypt reported on Monday that attackers had demanded 0.5 bitcoin ($17,012) to have the site’s services and operations restored to… Source link