Tag: #DDoSAttack
On January 27, 2025, DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup that’s been making waves in the tech world, found itself under siege. The company reported facing “large-scale malicious attacks,” which threw a wrench in its registration process for new users. While details are scarce, experts suspect a classic Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack—imagine a digital […]
During the ongoing World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Russian hackers target Swiss banks and local councils, disrupting critical services with a series of cyberattacks. The attacks, attributed to the pro-Russian hacker group NoName, affected financial institutions such as Zurich Cantonal Bank and Vaud Cantonal Bank, alongside the local government websites of Lucerne, Adligenswil, Kriens, […]
In a recent security disclosure, cloud provider OVHcloud revealed that it successfully mitigated a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack reaching an unprecedented 840 million packets per second (Mpps) in April 2024. This eclipses the prior record of 809 Mpps set in 2020 as reported by Akamai. DDoS attacks aim to cripple a target system by overwhelming […]