Associated Press: Canvas system is online after a cyberattack disrupted thousands of schools. “Tens of thousands of students studying for final exams around the world Friday regained access to a key online learning system after a cyberattack had earlier knocked it offline, throwing schools and universities into turmoil.”

Pro-Iran Hackers Extort Canonical with Sustained DDoS Attacks

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is battling a relentless cyber assault, with its website crippled by a sustained Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that has left its main site inaccessible. The Islamic Cyber Resistance in Iraq, also known as 313 Team, has claimed responsibility for the attack.

https://osintsights.com/pro-iran-hackers-extort-canonical-with-sustained-ddos-attacks?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#DistributedDenialOfService #DdosAttacks #ProiranHackers #TheIslamicCyberResistanceInIraq #313Team

TechCrunch: Mastodon says its flagship server was hit by a DDoS attack. “Mastodon’s flagship server was hit by a distributed denial-of-service attack on Monday, the social networking software maker said, which rendered the instance unusable at times. Much of the site was inaccessible, throwing error messages or displaying a full-screen outage warning.”

Kimwolf Botnet Hijacks 1.8 Million Android TVs, Launches Large-Scale DDoS Attacks
https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/kimwolf-botnet-hijacks-18-million.html

#Infosec #Security #Cybersecurity #CeptBiro #Kimwolf #Botnet #Hijacks #Android #TVs #DDoSAttacks

Cloudflare reveals how bots and governments reshaped the internet in 2025

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2025/12/cloudflare-2025-year-review/

40 seconds, 22.2 Tbps, and a botnet of 300,000 hijacked devices—enough chaos to stream a million 4K videos at once. How did Cloudflare turn this digital assault into a masterclass in defense? Dive into the story.

https://thedefendopsdiaries.com/understanding-and-mitigating-modern-ddos-attacks-lessons-from-the-222-tbps-incident/

#ddosattacks
#cloudflare
#cybersecurity
#botnet
#iotsecurity

For some reason a LOT of Microsoft-tagged (whois) IPs are **very** interested in the query "IN ANY fysh.org".

I'm seeing *thousands* of TCP connections to the name server at once, all for that same query.

I'm still going through the list of IPs from about 30 minutes ago, but so far whois is mostly saying "Microsoft", sometimes with a "cloud" tag. There's one bunch of Google in there too, but for all I know they're just because the MSFT ones are causing a lot of:

named[2218860]: Accepting TCP connection failed: quota reached

So, are Microsoft cloud IPs known to do something like this, perhaps some web scraper gone wrong? Or is someone leveraging Azure for some sort of DoS attack ? It's not *incredibly* effective if so, no immediate sign of other issues with fysh.org services, but I've not gotten to checking that in detail yet.

#infosec #ddos #DDoSAttacks #microsoft #cloud #azure

Cloudflare just stopped an 11.5 Tbps DDoS attack—a jump from 3.8 Tbps that's rewriting the playbook on cyber warfare. Want to see how tech and tactics are evolving in real time?

https://thedefendopsdiaries.com/the-evolution-of-ddos-attacks-from-38-tbps-to-115-tbps/

#ddosattacks
#cybersecurity
#cloudflare
#networksecurity
#iotsecurity

Krebs on Security: Oregon Man Charged in ‘Rapper Bot’ DDoS Service. “On August 6, 2025, federal agents arrested Ethan J. Foltz of Springfield, Ore. on suspicion of operating Rapper Bot, a globally dispersed collection of tens of thousands of hacked Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The complaint against Foltz explains the attacks usually clocked in at more than two terabits of junk data per […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/20/krebs-on-security-oregon-man-charged-in-rapper-bot-ddos-service/

Internet-wide Vulnerability Enables Giant DDoS Attacks
https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/internet-wide-vulnerability-giant-ddos-attacks

#Infosec #Security #Cybersecurity #CeptBiro #Vulnerability #DDoSAttacks