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The attacks were initiated three weeks before the shooting war began in what is regarded as "the first case in the history of a coordinated cyberspace domain attack synchronized with major combat actions in the other warfighting domains (consisting of Land, Air, Sea, and Space)."
August 15: Saudi Aramco is crippled by a cyber warfare attack for months by malware called Shamoon. Considered the biggest hack in history in terms of cost and destructiveness. Carried out by an Iranian attacker group called Cutting Sword of Justice. [92] Iranian hackers retaliated against Stuxnet by releasing Shamoon.
September: Mirai creates headlines by launching some of the most powerful and disruptive DDoS attacks seen to date by infecting the Internet of Things. Mirai ends up being used in the DDoS attack on 20 September 2016 on the Krebs on Security site which reached 620 Gbit/s. [97] Ars Technica also reported a 1 Tbit/s attack on French web host OVH ...
The first known Distributed Denial of Service attack occurred in 1996 when Panix, now one of the oldest internet service providers, was knocked offline for several days by a SYN flood, a technique ...
By David Goldman NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- There's a good chance your bank's website was attacked over the past week. Since Sept. 19, the websites of Bank of America (BAC), JPMorgan Chase (JPM ...
Iran has used cyber attacks against targets in the middle East (the most notorious being against Aramco), against a conservative American casino owner, and has used very basic attacks against U.S ...
August 15: The most valuable company in the world Saudi Aramco is crippled by a cyber warfare attack for months by malware called Shamoon. Considered the biggest hack in history in terms of cost and destructiveness . Carried out by an Iranian attacker group called Cutting Sword of Justice. [53]
The first known direct attempt against a payment system affected E-gold in June 2001, which was followed up by a "post-9/11 id check" shortly after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. [10] 2003. The first known phishing attack against a retail bank was reported by The Banker in September 2003. [11] 2004