Security News

Attackers Use CoAP for DDoS Amplification
2019-02-04 14:44

Attackers recently started abusing the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) for the reflection/amplification of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, NETSCOUT warns.  read more

New DDoS campaign serving four times the number of packets as 2018's major GitHub attack
2019-01-30 14:33

The potency of DDoS attacks lies in the number of packets being sent rather than the relative bandwidth involved in the attack.

It’s mop-up time for WebStresser DDoS-for-hire users
2019-01-30 11:56

Cops from 14 countries are seeking to inflict a bit of distributed denial-of-freedom to whoever's behind 6 million around-the-globe attacks.

Europol Now Going After People Who Bought DDoS-for-Hire Services
2019-01-29 09:18

If you were a buyer of any online DDoS-for-hire service, you might be in trouble. After taking down and arresting the operators of the world's biggest DDoS-for-hire service last year, the...

Authorities Track Down Users of DDoS Services
2019-01-28 18:56

The seizure of several websites offering distributed denial of service (DDoS) for hire services has allowed authorities to track down and take action against people who used such websites, Europol...

Bit-and-Piece DDoS Method Emerges to Torment ISPs
2019-01-24 14:11

Perpetrators are using smaller, bit-and-piece methods to inject junk into legitimate traffic, causing attacks to bypass detection rather than sounding alarms with large, obvious attack spikes.

Researchers analyze DDoS attacks as coordinated gang activities
2019-01-21 06:15

In a new report, NSFOCUS introduced the IP Chain-Gang concept, in which each chain-gang is controlled by a single threat actor or a group of related threat actors and exhibit similar behavior...

DDoS sueball, felonious fonts, leaky Android file manager, blundering building security, etc etc
2019-01-19 13:37

Plus, Safari security foiled by… a finger swipe? Roundup This week we wrangled with alleged Russian election meddling, hundreds of millions of username-password combos spilled online, Oracle...

Ukrainian Police Arrest 6 Hackers Linked to DDoS and Financial Attacks
2019-01-17 09:33

Ukrainian Police have this week busted out two separate groups of hackers involved in carrying out DDoS attacks against news agencies and stealing money from Ukrainian citizens, respectively....

Courts Hand Down Hard Jail Time for DDoS
2019-01-14 19:37

Seldom do people responsible for launching crippling cyberattacks face justice, but increasingly courts around the world are making examples of the few who do get busted for such crimes. On...