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A few of the Taiwan government’s websites were targeted with DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks this week, during the same time that U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited the country. The attacks targeted at least four sites, including that of President Tsai Ing-wen, the National Defense Ministry, the Foreign Affairs Ministry, and the Taiwan Taoyuan International […]

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Russia-linked cyber collective Killnet has claimed responsibility for DDoS attacks Monday on the Lithuanian government and other entities in the Baltic country over closure of transit routes within the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, according to researchers. The threat group warns that it will keep up attacks until the issue is resolved. On Monday, Lithuania’s National […]

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The use of misconfigured network middleboxes and censorship systems for DDoS reflection was theorized last year by a group of researchers at the University of Maryland and University of Colorado Boulder. In their paper, the academics showed that censorship infrastructure could be abused to achieve DDoS amplification ratios of up to 700,000:1. Furthermore, they showed […]

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