Security News

Here we go again: DDoS attacks on the rise! (Help Net Security)
2017-08-23 13:12

Newly released data shows that DDoS and web application attacks are on the rise once again, according to Akamai’s Second Quarter, 2017 State of the Internet / Security Report. Contributing to this...

DDoS Threat Increases While Mirai Becomes 'Pay-for-Play' (Security Week)
2017-08-22 17:52

The DDoS threat is increasing again. Pbot can generate 75 Gbps from just 400 nodes and Mirai has been commoditized. However, despite the growing number of attacks, the overall trend seems to be...

Common Source Code Used by Multiple Chinese DDoS Platforms (Security Week)
2017-08-17 02:34

An increase in Chinese websites offering online distributed denial of service (DDoS) capabilities was observed after a localized version of the source code of online booters was put up for sale,...

Pulse Wave DDoS Attacks Disrupt Hybrid Defenses (Security Week)
2017-08-16 16:45

A new method of launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks dubbed “pulse wave” can be highly effective against organizations using “appliance first, cloud second” hybrid mitigation...

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...