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A company developing a maritime port management and coordination system, is faced with a DDoS [...]

Day	Month	Year	Country	Activity	Incident Type
19	July	2023	Spain	IT Services	Denial of Service

Summary

According to sources, following Spain's pledge to back the Ukrainian government, multiple sectors within the country, encompassing were targeted by Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) cyber-attacks. During 15 days, the country has been targeted by over DDoS cyber-attacks, which Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) traced back to the NoName057(16) group.

The impact on the websites tended to be short-lived, with most targeted websites resuming operations within the day of the assault.

Victim

ISDEFE

Claimed/Reported Threat Actor

NoName057(16)

Origin

Hacktivism

Main impact

Availability

References

https://www.surinenglish.com/spain/russia-unleashes-huge-campaign-cyber-attacks-spain-20230804162919-nt.html

Recommendations to IT Services to reduce Denial of Service risks:

Implement rate limiting and traffic filtering to mitigate the impact of incoming malicious traffic.
Check with your IT service provider that the resilience of its systems against such attack was tested.
Regularly monitor network traffic and set up alerting for unusual patterns or spikes.
Diversify your server locations and use fail-over systems to ensure service availability in case of an attack.
Establish an incident response plan to quickly mitigate and recover from DoS attacks.

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