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On October 21, 2016, three consecutive distributed denial-of-service attacks were launched against the Domain Name System (DNS) provider Dyn. The attack caused major Internet platforms and services to be unavailable to large swathes of users in Europe and North America. [ 3][ 4] The groups Anonymous and New World Hackers claimed responsibility ...
An Anonymous video was released on June 8, 2012, claiming that an attack against the government of Cyprus would take place due to reasons of government corruption, media misinformation and the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement [175] On June 26, DDoS attacks took place against 47 websites of the Republic of Cyprus, which were taken down for 15 ...
Due to its status as a user-created games platform, Roblox has a variety of popular games. As of May 2020, the most popular games on Roblox had over 10 million monthly active players each. As of August 2020, at least 20 games had been played more than one billion times, and at least 5,000 have been played more than one million times. [ 104 ]
Napster, Inc. ). This was the first time a major musical act publicly went against allegedly illegal file sharing. In February 2000, some of the Internet's most reliable sites were rendered nearly unreachable by distributed denial-of-service ( DDoS) attacks. Yahoo! took the first hit on February 7, 2000.
[2] [4] The game's name was changed to Roblox in 2005, and the game was formally released on September 1, 2006. [4] Cassel died from cancer on February 11, 2013. [2] [4] In December 2013, Roblox Corporation had 68 employees, which it raised to 163 by December 2016. [5]
Ryuk (ransomware) Ryuk is a type of ransomware known for targeting large, public-entity Microsoft Windows cybersystems. It typically encrypts data on an infected system, rendering the data inaccessible until a ransom is paid in untraceable bitcoin. [ 1] Ryuk is believed to be used by two or more criminal groups, most likely Russian or Ukrainian ...
The U.S. government concluded after a study that a cyber attack caused a power outage in Ukraine which left more than 200,000 people temporarily without power. The Russian hacking group Sandworm or the Russian government were possibly behind the malware attack on the Ukrainian power grid as well as a mining company and a large railway operator ...
REvil. REvil ( Ransomware Evil; also known as Sodinokibi) was a Russia-based [ 1] or Russian-speaking [ 2] private ransomware -as-a-service (RaaS) operation. [ 3] After an attack, REvil would threaten to publish the information on their page Happy Blog unless the ransom was received. In a high profile case, REvil attacked a supplier of the tech ...