Rayobyte infrastructure enabling DDoS attacks
– Denial of service against Somali Journalists Syndicate launched from Sprious Group’s proxy infrastructure This forensic report is yet another example on how the self-proclaimed “ethical proxy services” are used to launch large and complex DDoS attacks to silence media outlets. With large pools of valid IP addresses from all over the world, residential and […]
Kosovan Nacionale under repeated DDoS attacks
Nacionale is a new independent media in Kosovo, launched in March 2022. Though newly established, it is formed by a team highly experienced journalists and has quickly became one of the main news platforms in Kosovo. The issues covered by Nacionale focus on local political and social issues including topics as high level corruption from […]
The tip of the iceberg – the algorithm fraud industry
This report is the result of a six months long investigation, tracing and uncover a large network of Vietnamese fraudsters that uses Facebook infrastructure and residential proxies to build and control large Facebook bots, that are used to monetize on Facebook services or carry out malicious activities.
Gotham City under Denial of Service
Since late August 2021, the website of Gotham City (gothamcity.fr and gothamcity.ch), an online journal specializing in economic crime, has been receiving intermittent denial of service attacks. Gotham City deals with cases of corruption, fraud and civil litigation involving players in the Swiss economy. Qurium has been investigating the attack signatures and these are our […]
Israeli firm ‘Bright Data’ (Luminati Networks) enabled the attacks against Karapatan
The 25 days long DDoS attack against the website of Karapatan was launched by almost 30.000 IP addresses, whereas one third of the addresses originated from devices that there were not running “Open Proxies” or “Tor exits”. Identifying this mysterious part of the botnet turned to be a fascinating research and a digital forensics challenge. […]
Human rights alliance ‘Karapatan’ under long lasting DDoS attack
– An analysis of the cyberattacks During the past three weeks, the website of the prominent Philippine human rights coalition Karapatan has been under denial of service attack. The attacks started on 29th of July 2021, and are still ongoing. The attacks are taking place amid the online solidarity campaign #StopTheKillingsPH, which marks one year […]
La Nueva Prensa under DDoS attack after publishing “Operación Jaque” documentary
Soon after the announcement of the movie documentary of Gonzalo Guillén’s “Operation Jaque, a not so masterful move”, which presents what might really happened behind the operation that led to freedom of 15 kidnapped held by the FARC in 2008, denial of service attacks were launched against the Colombian-based news group La Nueva Prensa. Five […]
