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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...
The US is also juicing him for over half a million in profits from multiple DDoS-for-hire services.
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
'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.…
The specific type of TCP attack used in the recent spate of DDoS efforts were TCP SYN-ACK reflection attacks.
Educational institutions main target during September spike Kasperksy researchers have blamed pesky schoolkids for the big September spike in denial-of-service attacks.…
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...
Attacks are targeting international companies in the financial sector, demanding that victims pay ransom in Bitcoin.
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,...
By abusing a little-known multicast protocol, attackers can launch DDoS attacks of immense power, but there may be an easy fix.