A worldwide list of DDoS attacks that took place during the month of February 2021
Date of attack | Country | Industry | Downtime | Company Affected | Size of Company | Attack Details | Press Link |
Feb 19 | Austria | Telecom | 1.25 Hours | A1 | Small | Network disrupted inconveniencing customers. The company is offering a 10 percent discount to customers. | Click here |
Feb 18 | Ukraine | Government | Several Days | Security Service of Ukraine | NA | The website faced several technical interruptions and struggled to repel the attack. | Click here |
Feb 17 | USA | Education | Several Hours | Manchester Schools | Enterprise | Attacks flooded the district’s servers with traffic and shut them down. | Click here |
Feb 15 | UK | Financial Services | Several Hours | EXMO Cryptocurrency | Small | The massive attack (30GB per second) affected the company’s entire infrastructure, including the website, API, Websocket API, and the exchange charts. | Click here |
Feb 14 | Holland | Government | NA | Dutch politician Kati Piri’s website | NA | The politically motivated attack shut down Kati Piri’s and the Workers’ Party’s website. | Click here |
Feb 12 | USA | Internet Browser | NA | Dread – Darknet Forum | NA | Intermittent disruptions because of DDoS’d servers. | Click here |
Feb 5 | Russia | Government | 1 Day | Russia’s National Guard (Rosgvardiya) | NA | Reported that the three hour intensive attack was launched from abroad. | Click here |
Feb 4 | USA | Education | 16 Hours | Winthrop Public School | Small | The attack prevented students and teachers from utilizing web-based resources. | Click here |
Feb 3 | Iceland | Telecom | 1 Days | Siminn | Medium | Siminn’s TV service was affected | Click here |