Here is the list of recent DDoS attacks that took place worldwide during the month of January 2022
Country: USA
Downtime: 5 Hours
Company Affected: Solana Cryptocurrency
Size of Company: Medium
Attack Details: The attack, fourth time in the last 12 months, has likely been caused by the constant creation of empty transactions on the network that act as congestion material and put the network offline.
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Country: Anonymous
Downtime: NA
Company Affected: LooksRare
Size of Company: Small
Attack Details: Hours after LooksRare launched, the NFT marketplace suffered a DDoS attack that took it offline for a while.
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Country: USA
Downtime: NA
Company Affected: FlexBooker
Size of Company: Small
Attack Details: The DDoS attack that hit the company’s AWS servers resulted in a data breach of 3.7 million records that later appeared on a dark web hacker forum.
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Country: North Korea
Downtime: 4 Hours
Company Affected: North Korea’s IT Infrastructure
Size of Company: NA
Attack Details: North Korea disappeared from the internet as crucial servers inside the country were unreachable, suggesting that its IT infrastructure was hit by a DDoS attack.
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Country: Ukraine
Downtime: 12+ Hours
Company Affected: Ukraine Government Website
Size of Company: NA
Attack Details: The attack paralyzed the websites of Ukraine’s Ministry of Education and Science, the Foreign Ministry, the State Emergencies Service, the Cabinet of Ministers, the Energy Ministry, and the website Diia.
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Country: Indonesia
Downtime: NA
Company Affected: Bank Indonesia
Size of Company: Small
Attack Details: Victim of a large scale DDoS attack but services not disrupted according to company announcement.
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Country: Andorra
Downtime: 30 Minutes
Company Affected: Andorra Telecom
Size of Company: Enterprise
Attack Details: Repeated DDoS attacks during a multi-day Twitch gaming tournament resulting in little or no internet connectivity for the whole of Andorra.
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Country: North Korea
Downtime: 6 Hours
Company Affected: North Korea’s IT Infrastructure
Size of Company: NA
Attack Details: All traffic to and from North Korea was taken down affecting connectivity for approx. 25 million people.
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Country: North Korea
Downtime: NA
Company Affected: Rodong Sinmun and Foreign Ministry
Size of Company: NA
Attack Details: Partial disconnections and access to North’s main newspaper, the Rodong Sinmun, and its foreign ministry.
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