K–12 Students Are Using Cyberattacks to Shut Down Schools

August 12, 2022

Along with a rise in ransomware attacks and phishing scams, school districts are facing a new threat: distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. These cyberthreats halt districts’ ability to perform functions online by flooding the target systems with a high volume of requests simultaneously. In an age where schools rely on the internet for everything from teaching and attendance taking to managing school lunches, these shutdowns can cause major disruptions.
While in some instances the disruption is perpetrated by professional threat actors, schools are increasingly finding their own …

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A developer who ran a DDoS-for-hire “empire” criticizes Cloudflare for protecting the DDoS industry while selling services to mitigate such attacks (Rasbora.dev)

Rasbora.dev:
A developer who ran a DDoS-for-hire “empire” criticizes Cloudflare for protecting the DDoS industry while selling services to mitigate such attacks — Today CloudFlare is in the spotlight for their decision to revoke access to a website behind their network …

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The US DOJ says it has started seizing 48 websites and charged 6 people for allegedly running “booter” DDoS-for-hire services used to launch millions of attacks (William Turton/Bloomberg)

William Turton / Bloomberg:
The US DOJ says it has started seizing 48 websites and charged 6 people for allegedly running “booter” DDoS-for-hire services used to launch millions of attacks — The US seized dozens of internet domains and charged six people in a sting intended to bring down a network …

December 15, 2022

Google’s Mandiant say it observed four instances of pro-Russian hacktivist groups publishing data within 24 hours of it being stolen by GRU using wiper malware (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Google’s Mandiant say it observed four instances of pro-Russian hacktivist groups publishing data within 24 hours of it being stolen by GRU using wiper malware — ‘We have never previously observed such a volume of cyberattacks, variety of threat actors, and coordination of effort …

September 23, 2022

Blizzard President Mike Ybarra says Overwatch 2 is “experiencing a mass DDoS attack” on its servers, preventing hundreds of users from joining the game’s launch (Mariella Moon/Engadget)

Mariella Moon / Engadget:
Blizzard President Mike Ybarra says Overwatch 2 is “experiencing a mass DDoS attack” on its servers, preventing hundreds of users from joining the game’s launch — Overwatch 2’s early access launch has been marred by a few bugs and a massive DDoS attack preventing players from getting into the game.

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