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DDoS

Unmasking Anonymous Sudan: Timeline of DDoS Attacks, Affiliations, and Motivations

A running timeline of Anonymous Sudan’s DDoS attacks on countries, industries, companies, and governmental ...

Cyber Threat Intelligence

Killnet: Inside the World’s Most Prominent Pro-Kremlin Hacktivist Collective

Well-known pro-Kremlin hactivist group Killnet has been noted for its level of activity and ambition, especially ...

Illicit communities

Killnet Ostracizes Leader of Anonymous Russia, Adding New Chapter to Pro-Kremlin Hacktivist Drama

The apparent head of Anonymous Russia, an 18-year-old Belarusian citizen, was recently arrested by local ...

Cyber Threat Intelligence

What is DDoS and What are DDoS Attacks?

A tool favored by many threat actors, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks seek to make a targeted ...

Cyber Threat Intelligence

Flashpoint Year In Review: 2022 Breaches and Malware Threat Landscape

Mostly motivated by greed, threat actors will target any organization regardless of sector. Therefore, data ...

Cyber Threat Intelligence

Combining Cybersecurity with Gaming: Cheats, Insider Threats, Ransomware and More

The video game industry has grown considerably since its introduction in the early 1970s, with analysts believing ...

Cyber Threat Intelligence

Definitive Guide to Ransomware: What It Is and How Your Organization Can Prevent, Detect, and Respond to a Ransomware Attack

A guide to defining, explaining, and understanding ransomware to bolster your organizations security posture ...

Cyber Threat Intelligence

From Ransomware to DDoS: Guide to Cyber Threat Actors—How, Why, and Who Threat Actors Choose to Attack

Threat actors who execute cyberattacks, such as ransomware, can wreak havoc on organizations across the private ...

Cyber threat intelligence

The Flashpoint Guide to Card Fraud: How Financial Institutions Can Better Detect, Mitigate, and Prevent Fraud

Card Fraud, or carding, describes the process by which threat actors gain access to, and then leverage, stolen ...

Vulnerability management

Threat-Actor Opportunism at Peak During Holiday Season

Attackers’ opportunism is never higher during the year than in the holiday shopping season. As a result, ...

Cyber Threat Intelligence

Cyber Jihadists Dabble in DDoS: Assessing the Threat

Recent events suggest that while cyber jihadists appear to remain of low skill and under-sophisticated, their ...

Cyber threat intelligence

An After-Action Analysis of the Mirai Botnet Attacks on Dyn

Digging into the recent series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Dyn DNS, which impacted ...