Security News

Attackers increasingly embracing small-scale DDoS attacks to evade detection
2019-11-20 05:00

The growth in both large- and small-scale DDoS attacks continues its upward trajectory, according to a report released by Neustar. The report reveals that the total number of DDoS attacks was up...

Booter boss behind millions of DDoS-for-hire attacks jailed
2019-11-19 10:52

The US is also juicing him for over half a million in profits from multiple DDoS-for-hire services.

DDoS-for-Hire Service Admin Gets 13 Months in Prison
2019-11-18 16:32

An Illinois man was sentenced to 13 months in prison for his role as administrator of stresser services that launched millions of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. read more

'Sophisticated' cyber attack on UK Labour Party platforms was probably just a DDoS, says official
2019-11-12 11:41

'Really very everyday' – report The UK's Labour Party says its campaign site has been the target of "sophisticated and large-scale cyber-attack" and has informed GCHQ's National Cyber Security Centre.…

DDoS Attacks Target Amazon, SoftLayer and Telecom Infrastructure
2019-11-11 23:14

The specific type of TCP attack used in the recent spate of DDoS efforts were TCP SYN-ACK reflection attacks.

Back-2-school hacking: Kaspersky blames pesky script kiddies for rash of DDoS cyber hooliganism
2019-11-11 17:51

Educational institutions main target during September spike Kasperksy researchers have blamed pesky schoolkids for the big September spike in denial-of-service attacks.…

The Pirate Bay was recently down for over a week due to a DDoS attack
2019-10-29 13:33

It seems like the prolonged downtime and technical difficulties faced by The Pirate Bay over the past several weeks were due to a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against the...

Cybercriminals Impersonate Russian APT ‘Fancy Bear’ to Launch DDoS Attacks
2019-10-28 12:58

Attacks are targeting international companies in the financial sector, demanding that victims pay ransom in Bitcoin.

DDoS Attack Hits Amazon Web Services
2019-10-24 12:22

Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers experienced service interruptions yesterday as the company struggled to fight off a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. As part of such an assault,...

A new type of DDoS attack can amplify attack strength by more than 15,300%
2019-09-18 16:26

By abusing a little-known multicast protocol, attackers can launch DDoS attacks of immense power, but there may be an easy fix.