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DDoS-Attacken auf deutsche Städte

Hacker haben die Webseiten von mehreren deutschen Städten mit DDoS-Attacken lahmgelegt. Wirestock Creators – shutterstock.com Am 25. April 2025 kämpfte die Stadt Nürnberg mit einem Ausfall ihrer Online-Dienste. Ursache war eine sogenannte DDoS-Attacke (Distributed Denial of Service). Dabei wird eine Website mit Bot-Anfragen überflutet, sodass die Serverkapazitäten überlastet sind. Wie der Bayerische Rundfunk berichtet hatte,…

Six DDoS sites seized in multi-national law enforcement operation

Authorities in Poland have arrested four people accused of administrating and selling access to distributed denial of service (DDoS) services, according to a press release from Europol.   The suspects are believed to have operated six so-called “stresser” or “booter” services that enabled customers across the world to launch thousands of attacks on targets ranging from…

X suffered a DDoS attack. Its CEO and security researchers can’t agree on who did it.

Social media service X was hit by a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks Monday, which rendered the platform formerly known as Twitter inaccessible at times for users with intermittent outages and errors, according to researchers. The cause of those attacks has been much harder to discern. Elon Musk, the site’s owner, described the incident as…

‘Severe’ bug in ChatGPT’s API could be used to DDoS websites

A vulnerability in ChatGPT’s API can generate DDoS attacks against targeted websites, but the security researcher who discovered it says the flaw has since been addressed by OpenAI. In a security advisory posted to the developer platform GitHub, German security researcher Benjamin Flesch detailed the bug, which occurs when the API is processing HTTP POST…

CloudFlare detected (and blocked) the biggest DDoS attack on record

Web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare says it detected the biggest Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack ever recorded, a 5.6 terabits per second (Tbps) attack directed at an internet service provider (ISP) in Eastern Asia. Despite the staggering volume of the attack, Cloudflare successfully managed and mitigated it without human intervention. The company said in research…

International crackdown disrupts DDoS-for-hire operations

In a sweeping international crackdown, law enforcement agencies from 15 countries, including the United States and multiple European nations, have dismantled 27 of the most popular platforms used for carrying out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, Europol announced Wednesday. The operation, known as PowerOFF, has led to the arrest of three administrators in France and Germany…