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  2. List of cyberattacks - Wikipedia

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    The attacks resulted in the government cutting off internet access in the departments affected and various responses from both the Canadian government and the Chinese government. 2012 Operation Ababil , a series of cyber attacks starting in 2012, targeting various American financial institutions and carried out by a group calling itself the ...

  3. Timeline of computer viruses and worms - Wikipedia

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    September: Mirai creates headlines by launching some of the most powerful and disruptive DDoS attacks seen to date by infecting the Internet of Things. Mirai ends up being used in the DDoS attack on 20 September 2016 on the Krebs on Security site which reached 620 Gbit/s. [97] Ars Technica also reported a 1 Tbit/s attack on French web host OVH ...

  4. List of security hacking incidents - Wikipedia

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    January 17: Project Chanology; Anonymous attacks Scientology website servers around the world. Private documents are stolen from Scientology computers and distributed over the Internet. March 7: Around 20 Chinese hackers claim to have gained access to the world's most sensitive sites, including the Pentagon. They operated from an apartment on a ...

  5. Hundreds of thousands of US internet routers destroyed in ...

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    A comparison of details and event descriptions in the Lumen report with internet outages on the dates of the attack pointed to one entity: Arkansas-based internet service provider Windstream.

  6. The most famous DDoS attacks in history - AOL

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    The first known Distributed Denial of Service attack occurred in 1996 when Panix, now one of the oldest internet service providers, was knocked offline for several days by a SYN flood, a technique ...

  7. Cyberattacks by country - Wikipedia

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    The 2007 cyberattacks on Estonia were a series of cyberattacks that began on 27 April 2007 and targeted websites of Estonian organizations, including Estonian parliament, banks, ministries, newspapers, and broadcasters, amid the country's disagreement with Russia about the relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, an elaborate Soviet-era grave marker, as well as war graves in Tallinn.