Security News

ProtonMail still under attack by DDoS bombardment (The Register)
2015-11-05 12:36

Linux Machines Powered Nearly Half of DDoS Attacks in Q3: Kaspersky (SecurityWeek)
2015-11-05 03:36

Malware Used to Launch DDoS Attacks (InfoRiskToday)
2015-11-04 20:36

Kaspersky: Financial institutions in ANZ DDoS attack targets in Q3 (ZDNet)
2015-11-04 06:36

China is the top target for DDoS reflection attacks (Help Net Security)
2015-10-30 08:00

China bore the brunt of DDoS reflection attacks last month, with 61 percent of the top attack destinations observed hitting Chinese-based systems, according to Nexusguard. Of the 21,845 attack events ...

New Types of Reflection DDoS Attacks Spotted (SecurityWeek)
2015-10-29 18:36

New DDoS attacks misuse NetBIOS name server, RPC portmap, and Sentinel licensing servers (Help Net Security)
2015-10-29 07:30

Akamai has observed three new reflection DDoS attacks in recent months: NetBIOS name server reflection, RPC portmap reflection, and Sentinel reflection. In a reflection DDoS attack, also called a D...

quot;Chikdosquot; Malware Abuses MySQL Servers for DDoS Attacks (SecurityWeek)
2015-10-28 16:36

Attackers are turning MySQL servers into DDoS bots (Help Net Security)
2015-10-28 15:34

Someone has been compromising MySQL servers around the world and using them to mount DDoS attacks. The latest targets of these attacks are an (unnamed) US hosting provider and a Chinese IP address. ...

DDoS botnet comprised of nearly a thousand CCTV cameras (SC Magazine)
2015-10-26 22:36