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OpenAI’s ChatGPT Crawler Can Be Used to Trigger DDoS Attack on Websites, Researcher Claims
OpenAI’s ChatGPT application programming interface (API) has a vulnerability that can be exploited to initiate a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on websites, claimed a cybersecurity researcher. As per the claims, the issue results in sending thousands of network requests to a website using the ChatGPT crawler. The researcher claimed t...
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Weeks After "Blue Screen Of Death", Cyberattack Causes New Microsoft Outage
The tech giant said it was a DDoS attack that floods a service with traffic in order to bring them to a standstill.
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CERT-in Issues High Severity Vulnerability Warning for Google Chrome; Advises Users to Apply Updates
CERT-In has issued a high-severity rated warning cautioning against "multiple vulnerabilities" in popular web browser Google Chrome, which could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code and cause denial of service condition on targeted system.
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India's Cyber Agency Issues High Severity Warning For Google Chrome
CERT-In has issued a high-severity rated warning cautioning against "multiple vulnerabilities" in web browser Google Chrome, which could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code and cause denial of service condition on targeted system.
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Russian Hacker Group Killnet's Distributed Denial of Service Cyberattack Thwarted by US Treasury
The US Treasury in October thwarted a cyberattack perpetrated by Killnet, a pro-Russian hacking group. The incident occurred a couple of days before similar attacks from Killnet on U.S. financial services firms. Meanwhile, the IP addresses used for the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack were quickly shared with financial services firms, in...
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Taiwan Website Attacks Likely Caused by Chinese 'Hacktivists', Researchers Say
Taiwanese government websites, including the website of Taiwan's presidential office, was targeted by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Tuesday, ahead of US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's arrival in Tapei. According to researchers, these attacks were likely launched by Chinese "hacktivists".
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Lithuania Faces Cyberattack, Russia's Killnet Claims Hack of Sites in Retaliation for Transit Ban
Lithuanian state and private institutions were hit by a denial-of-service cyberattack on Monday. Russian hacker group Killnet claimed responsibility for the distributed denial of service (DDoS) cyberattack, saying it was in response to Vilnius's decision to block the transit of goods sanctioned by the European Union to the Russian exclave of Kalini...
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Russian Company Websites Hit by Increased Hacking in March, Says Cyber Firm
Efforts to disrupt the operations of company websites in Russia have jumped in March, a cybersecurity firm said, with the number of distributed denials of service (DDoS) attacks already exceeding those for the whole of February.
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WhatsApp Says User Data Not Affected by New MP4 File Security Vulnerability
WhatsApp on Monday said no user data was affected owing to a new bug where a specially-crafted MP4 file could trigger remote code execution (RCE) and denial of service (DoS) cyber-attacks.
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India Ranked Fourth As Cyber Attacks On The Rise Globally: Report
India ranked fourth in the list of top 10 target countries for Web Application Attacks as bot-driven abuse and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks continued to rise from November 2017 till April this year, Cloud delivery network provider Akamai Technologies said on Wednesday.
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AI, Machine Learning to Be Used by Hackers in 2018: Symantec
Furthermore, Internet of Things (IoT) devices will be hijacked and used in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, Symantec said.
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US FCC Website Hit by Attacks After 'Net Neutrality' Proposal
US FCC said Monday that its website was hit by deliberate denial of service attacks after the telecommunications regulator was criticised by comedian John Oliver.
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Sberbank and Alfa Bank Among Russian Banks Hit by Cyber-Attacks
Kaspersky Lab said the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks represented the first major wave of such attacks on Russian banks this year.
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Pokemon Go Server Outage: OurMine Claims Credit for DDoS Attack
The OurMine hacking team claims to have hit Pokemon Go's login servers with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
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Polish Airline, Hit by Cyber Attack, Says All Carriers at Risk
No airline is safe from the type of cyber attack that grounded an aircraft and hundreds of passengers at Poland's busiest airport at the weekend, the chief executive of Polish national carrier LOT said earlier on Monday.
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT Crawler Can Be Used to Trigger DDoS Attack on Websites, Researcher Claims
OpenAI’s ChatGPT application programming interface (API) has a vulnerability that can be exploited to initiate a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on websites, claimed a cybersecurity researcher. As per the claims, the issue results in sending thousands of network requests to a website using the ChatGPT crawler. The researcher claimed t...
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Weeks After "Blue Screen Of Death", Cyberattack Causes New Microsoft Outage
The tech giant said it was a DDoS attack that floods a service with traffic in order to bring them to a standstill.
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CERT-in Issues High Severity Vulnerability Warning for Google Chrome; Advises Users to Apply Updates
CERT-In has issued a high-severity rated warning cautioning against "multiple vulnerabilities" in popular web browser Google Chrome, which could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code and cause denial of service condition on targeted system.
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India's Cyber Agency Issues High Severity Warning For Google Chrome
CERT-In has issued a high-severity rated warning cautioning against "multiple vulnerabilities" in web browser Google Chrome, which could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code and cause denial of service condition on targeted system.
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Russian Hacker Group Killnet's Distributed Denial of Service Cyberattack Thwarted by US Treasury
The US Treasury in October thwarted a cyberattack perpetrated by Killnet, a pro-Russian hacking group. The incident occurred a couple of days before similar attacks from Killnet on U.S. financial services firms. Meanwhile, the IP addresses used for the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack were quickly shared with financial services firms, in...
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Taiwan Website Attacks Likely Caused by Chinese 'Hacktivists', Researchers Say
Taiwanese government websites, including the website of Taiwan's presidential office, was targeted by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Tuesday, ahead of US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's arrival in Tapei. According to researchers, these attacks were likely launched by Chinese "hacktivists".
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Lithuania Faces Cyberattack, Russia's Killnet Claims Hack of Sites in Retaliation for Transit Ban
Lithuanian state and private institutions were hit by a denial-of-service cyberattack on Monday. Russian hacker group Killnet claimed responsibility for the distributed denial of service (DDoS) cyberattack, saying it was in response to Vilnius's decision to block the transit of goods sanctioned by the European Union to the Russian exclave of Kalini...
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Russian Company Websites Hit by Increased Hacking in March, Says Cyber Firm
Efforts to disrupt the operations of company websites in Russia have jumped in March, a cybersecurity firm said, with the number of distributed denials of service (DDoS) attacks already exceeding those for the whole of February.
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WhatsApp Says User Data Not Affected by New MP4 File Security Vulnerability
WhatsApp on Monday said no user data was affected owing to a new bug where a specially-crafted MP4 file could trigger remote code execution (RCE) and denial of service (DoS) cyber-attacks.
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India Ranked Fourth As Cyber Attacks On The Rise Globally: Report
India ranked fourth in the list of top 10 target countries for Web Application Attacks as bot-driven abuse and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks continued to rise from November 2017 till April this year, Cloud delivery network provider Akamai Technologies said on Wednesday.
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AI, Machine Learning to Be Used by Hackers in 2018: Symantec
Furthermore, Internet of Things (IoT) devices will be hijacked and used in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, Symantec said.
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US FCC Website Hit by Attacks After 'Net Neutrality' Proposal
US FCC said Monday that its website was hit by deliberate denial of service attacks after the telecommunications regulator was criticised by comedian John Oliver.
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Sberbank and Alfa Bank Among Russian Banks Hit by Cyber-Attacks
Kaspersky Lab said the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks represented the first major wave of such attacks on Russian banks this year.
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Pokemon Go Server Outage: OurMine Claims Credit for DDoS Attack
The OurMine hacking team claims to have hit Pokemon Go's login servers with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
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Polish Airline, Hit by Cyber Attack, Says All Carriers at Risk
No airline is safe from the type of cyber attack that grounded an aircraft and hundreds of passengers at Poland's busiest airport at the weekend, the chief executive of Polish national carrier LOT said earlier on Monday.
