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Executive Summary Killnet is a hacktivist group based in Russia that has been active since at least 2015. The group is known for launching DDoS attacks on a diverse range of industries, including state and local governments, telecommunications, and defense. Killnet has been linked to several high profile attacks, including distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against U.S. airports and Elon Musk'… Read more →

Multiple reports in the media, including in Bloomberg US Edition, allege that Russian-associated cybercrime group Killnet is responsible for a series of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks during the week of October 6 that took several state government and other websites offline. While most of the websites were restored within 48 hours, these volumetric attacks can leave even the most secure sites paralyzed and… Read more →

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Is your company at risk of a Denial of Service (DoS) attack? If so, which areas are particularly vulnerable? Think it’s a crazy question? Think again. In 2020, 16 DDoS attacks take place every minute. DoS attacks require fewer resources, and so pose an even greater threat. In this post, we… Read more →

Your favorite website goes offline. That firewall in your office network isn’t filtering anything and is overwhelming the server machines that it is connected to. If an LDAP port is hit by a DDoS attack, you have no Active Directory securing the user accounts on your Windows client PCs. Maybe an IMAP server was hit,… Read more →

**OSSIM is no longer in use as we focus on delivering enhanced solutions for our users** Daniel Cid Daniel Cid is the founder and CTO for Sucuri. He’s also on the AlienVault Technology Advisory Board and is the founder of OSSEC HIDS. I interviewed him to get his thoughts on website security, and the security of content management… Read more →