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Pro-Palestinian Actor Levels 6-Day DDoS Attack on UAE Bank

ID: 2aa77f1c-f68c-5a81-9553-92a93b730f48

STIX ID: report--2aa77f1c-f68c-5a81-9553-92a93b730f48

Feed Name: Dark Reading

Threat Score
75/100

Date Published: 2024-07-25

Date Updated: 2026-04-21

Author: Robert Lemos, Contributing Writer

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A pro-Palestinian hacktivist group known as BlackMeta conducted a record-setting six-day web (Layer 7) DDoS campaign against a UAE financial institution, averaging 4.5 million requests per second and using the InfraShutdown DDoS-for-hire service; the report details the attack's duration, sustained volume, application-layer tactics (randomized queries), and potential links to Anonymous Sudan/Russia but does not report data theft or publish technical IoCs.

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