Newly discovered HTTP/2 protocol vulnerabilities called “CONTINUATION Flood” can lead to denial of service (DoS) attacks, crashing web servers with a single TCP connection in some implementations.
Monobank, Ukraine’s largest mobile-only bank, faced a barrage of denial of service (DDoS) attacks on January 21, crippling its operations and causing widespread disruption. Co-founder and CEO Oleh Horokhovskyi took to Telegram to confirm the Monobank cyberattack, revealing that the bank was targeted with a staggering 580 million service requests in one of the attacks. […]
Distributed denial of service attacks hit an all-time high in 2023, more than doubling year over year in the fourth quarter, Cloudflare said Tuesday in a threat report. The record high year for DDoS attacks coincided with mass exploits of the novel zero-day vulnerability HTTP/2 Rapid Reset, which threat actors used to launch DDoS attacks […]
Dive Brief: Distributed denial of service attacks escalated during the third quarter, as a novel zero-day vulnerability led to a series of record-breaking attacks that continued into the month of October, according to a report released Thursday by Cloudflare. Exploits of the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset vulnerability led to record breaking incidents, as Cloudflare reported 89 […]
The official website of the UK’s royal family was taken offline by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Sunday, according to reports. The Royal.uk site was unavailable for around 90 minutes, starting at 10am local time, according to The Independent. It was fully functional again soon after, although Cloudflare checks were in place […]