CBSE successfully thwarted a 3.8 million-packet DoS cyberattack on its verification and re-evaluation portal, processing over 56,000 student requests. The incident highlights ongoing scrutiny of the Board's digital infrastructure.
CBSE's re-evaluation portal faced multiple cyberattack attempts, including a denial-of-service attack, but remained operational. The board reported 1.5 million hits in two minutes and over one lakh unauthorized access attempts, while still processing thousands of student applications.
Hacktivists claiming affiliation with an Iraqi group have taken responsibility for a sustained DDoS attack on Canonical's web infrastructure, affecting Ubuntu users' ability to update and install the Linux distribution. The attack began Thursday and has been ongoing for approximately 20 hours, impacting Ubuntu's security API and multiple Canonical websites. The group allegedly uses Beamed, a DDoS-for-hire service claiming attacks up to 3.5 Tbps.
