Security News

Blizzard Entertainment Hit With Weekend DDoS Attack (Threatpost)
2017-08-14 21:37

Blizzard Entertainment was hit with a crippling DDoS attack over the weekend that followed similar attacks last week that knocked gamers offline.

Netflix Helps Identify APIs at Risk of Application DDoS Attacks (Security Week)
2017-08-01 16:41

Netflix has published tools and information to help defenders identify systems that could be leveraged by malicious actors for damaging application layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)...

British Hacker Admits Using Mirai Botnet to DDoS Deutsche Telekom (The Hackers News)
2017-07-25 03:07

An unnamed 29-year-old man, named by authorities as "Daniel K.," pleaded guilty in a German court on Friday to charges related to the hijacking of more than one Million Deutsche Telekom routers....

FCC has no documentation of DDoS attack that hit net neutrality comments (ArsTechnica)
2017-07-20 16:05

Records request denied because FCC made no "written documentation" of attack.

U.K. Student Charged for Running DDoS Service (Security Week)
2017-07-04 06:42

Jack Chappell, an 18-year-old student from Stockport, UK, has been charged over his alleged role in the operation of a service used by cybercriminals to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)...

UK Teenager, Aged 18, Charged With Running DDoS-For-Hire Service (The Hackers News)
2017-07-03 11:37

A teenage student has been charged with running a supplying malware that was used for launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against websites of some of the world's leading...

South Korean banks threatened with DDoS attacks unless they pay $315,000 (Help Net Security)
2017-06-27 17:07

South Korean banks are being threatened with crippling DDoS attacks unless they pay $315,000 in bitcoin. The attackers threatening them identified themselves as the Armada Collective. According to...

The Weaponization of DDoS (InfoRiskToday)
2017-06-23 21:48

Arbor's Darren Anstee on How to Defend Against Powerful DDoS for HireThe Mirai botnet is just the most high-profile example of the new weaponization of DDoS. Attacks are stronger than ever, and...

North Korea's DDoS Attacks Analyzed Based on IPs (Security Week)
2017-06-20 10:57

Arbor Networks has used the IP addresses shared recently by United States authorities to analyze distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks attributed to the North Korean government. The...

US Warns of 'DeltaCharlie' – A North Korean DDoS Botnet Malware (The Hackers News)
2017-06-14 05:23

The United States government has released a rare alert about an ongoing, eight-year-long North Korean state-sponsored hacking operation. The joint report from the FBI and U.S. Department of...