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The Swiss newspaper Aargauer Zeitung reports that hackers have hacked about 3 million smart toothbrushes to use them for a DDoS attack. The attack was quite effective. It blocked the work of the Swiss company for several hours, causing millions of euros in losses. There are not many details. All we know is that the […]
On the morning of December 12, Kyivstar’s network suffered a large-scale outage that left thousands of its subscribers without connection. Oleg Gorokhovsky, co-founder of monobank, said today that this also negatively affected the operation of one of the neobank’s services. This is an eSIM from mono – due to excessive demand, the service is temporarily […]
OpenAI has confirmed that the problems with ChatGPT and its developer tools were caused by a DDoS attack. During the attack, users received messages about system overload, and most users could not access the service. Initially, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman blamed the platform’s new features, but the company later admitted to a targeted attack. The […]
Google reported that it successfully repelled the most powerful DDoS attack in history last August. Its intensity amounted to 398 million requests per second, which is 7.5 times more powerful than the anti-record set last year. The latest wave of attacks began in late August and continues to this day, targeting major infrastructure providers, including […]
Since the beginning of the Russian aggression in Ukraine, the Ministry of Finance has created an IT army, which has joined the Ukrainian and foreign IT specialists. Since then, the team has managed to attack more than 600 Russian online resources. What is known Hackers have blocked most government websites, Russian media and online services […]