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DNS amplification was the most used technique for DDoS attackers in 2019 having been found in one-third of all attacks. The proportion of DDoS attacks that involved corrupted cloud servers was 45% between January and December; this is a 16% increase over the same time period the previous year.
The U.S. Department of Justice has asked victims of the Quantum Stresser DDoS-for-hire service, whose operator was recently sentenced, to come forward. According to authorities, the service had roughly 70-80,000 subscribers between 2011 and 2018, and in 2018 customers launched or attempted to launch approximately 50,000 DDoS attacks aimed at individuals or organizations.
The FBI reportedly warned this week that attackers repeatedly attempted to disrupt a state's voter registration and information website with a distributed denial-of-service attack. On Tuesday, the FBI issued a Private Industry Notification that described the attempted DDoS attack, according to Bleeping Computer, which says it obtained a copy of the alert.
Most DDoS attacks in 2019 were directed toward companies in the gaming and gambling sectors, the report found. Released on Wednesday, Imperva's annual Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report looks at the greater scale, effective strategies, and higher frequency of DDoS attacks.
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These guys aren't just launching attacks that kick all players on a targeted server out of a game, or degrade the game performance down to sludge, Ubisoft alleges. Defendants are well aware of the harm that the DDoS Services and DDoS Attacks cause to Ubisoft.
A Georgia man has admitted in court to employing a third-party to launch a distributed denial of service attack. Preston is the co-founder of BackConnect Security LLC, a company that provides protection against large-scale DDoS attacks.
A Georgia man who co-founded a service designed to protect companies from crippling distributed denial-of-service attacks has pleaded to paying a DDoS-for-hire service to launch attacks against others. DDoS attacks involve flooding a target Web site with so much junk Internet traffic that it can no longer accommodate legitimate visitors.
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A 21-year-old Illinois man was sentenced last week to 13 months in prison for running multiple DDoS-for-hire services that launched millions of attacks over several years. This individual's...