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Law enforcement agencies from 15 countries have taken 27 DDoS-for-hire services offline, also known as "booters" or "stressers," arrested three administrators, and identified 300 customers of the...

South Korean police have arrested a CEO and five employees for manufacturing over 240,000 satellite receivers pre-loaded or later updated to include DDoS attack functionality at a purchaser's...

A threat actor named Matrix has been linked to a widespread distributed denial-of-service (DoD) campaign that leverages vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in Internet of Things (IoT) devices to...

German law enforcement authorities have announced the disruption of a criminal service called dstat[.]cc that made it possible for other threat actors to easily mount distributed denial-of-service...

The Dstat.cc DDoS review platform has been seized by law enforcement, and two suspects have been arrested after the service helped fuel distributed denial-of-service attacks for years. [...]

Local authority websites downed in response to renewed support for Ukraine Multiple UK councils had their websites either knocked offline or were inaccessible to residents this week after...

Federal prosecutors in the U.S. have charged two Sudanese brothers with running a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet for hire that conducted a record 35,000 DDoS attacks in a single year,...

The United States Department of Justice unsealed an indictment today against two Sudanese brothers suspected of being the operators of Anonymous Sudan, a notorious and dangerous hacktivist group...

The Internet Archive has suffered a data breach, leading to the compromise of email addresses, screen names and bcrypt password hashes of some 31 million users. The compromise was revealed on...

31M folks' usernames, email addresses, salted-encrypted passwords now out there The Internet Archive had a bad day on the infosec front, after being DDoSed and having had its user account data...