News: > The Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) announced on Thursday that > Moscow was behind a cyber-attack on a Danish water utility in 2024 and a > series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on Danish websites in > the lead-up to the municipal and regional council elections in November. > > The first, it said, was carried out by the pro-Russian group known as > Z-Pentest and the second by NoName057(16), which has links to the Russian > state. Slashdot thread.

For two days in September, Afghanistan had no internet. No satellite failed; no cable was cut. This was a deliberate outage, mandated by the Taliban government. It followed a more localized shutdown two weeks prior, reportedly instituted “to prevent immoral activities.” No additional explanation was given. The timing couldn’t have been worse: communities still reeling from a major earthquake lost emergency communications, flights were grounded, and banking was interrupted. Afghanistan’s blackout is part of a wider pattern. Just since the end of September, there were also major nationwide internet shutdowns in ...

It was a recently unimaginable 7.3 Tbps: > The vast majority of the attack was delivered in the form of User Datagram > Protocol packets. Legitimate UDP-based transmissions are used in especially > time-sensitive communications, such as those for video playback, gaming > applications, and DNS lookups. It speeds up communications by not formally > establishing a connection before data is transferred. Unlike the more common > Transmission Control Protocol, UDP doesn’t wait for a connection between two > computers to be established through a handshake and doesn’t check whether data > is properly received by the other party. Instead, it immediately sends data > from one machine to another...