- Incidents
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 10th, 2016
Journalist Under Attack After Exposing DDoS-for-Hire Service
128 Gbps DDoS attack hits Brian Krebs' website
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 5th, 2016
"Catastrophic" DDoS Attack Pummels Linode Servers over Labor Day Weekend
Could this be the sign of a new data breach?
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 30th, 2016
Danish Man Arrested for DDoS Attacks on Finnish State Websites
Attacker also DDoSed sites in Denmark, Norway, and the US
- Hacking News
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 21st, 2016
Teen Avoids Jail Time After DDoSing Australia's Biggest Bank & E-Crime Portal
Teenager sentenced to a "family conference"
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 21st, 2016
Around Four in Five DNSSEC Servers Can Be Hijacked for DDoS Attacks
DNSSEC is the best tool to protect against DNS hijacking and DNS cache poisoning but can be hijacked for DDoS attacks
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 12th, 2016
DDoSCoin: New Crypto-Currency Rewards Users for Participating in DDoS Attacks
Somebody thought this was actually a good idea
- Incidents
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 9th, 2016
"Foreign Hackers" Launch DDoS Attacks on Australia's Census Website
Australia's Census website is still down after DDoS attacks
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 2nd, 2016
UK Hosting Firm Downed in 30 Gbps DDoS Attack
123-Reg suffers downtime following massive attack
- Hacking News
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 28th, 2016
Hong Kong Student Gets Probation Time for DDoS Attack During Occupy Campaign
Teenager wanted to help out Anonymous Asia
- Incidents
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 22nd, 2016
MIT Faced 35 DDoS Attacks in the First Six Months of 2016
Biggest attack peaked at 295 Gbps, 58.6 Mpps
- Incidents
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 20th, 2016
DDoS Attack Takes Down US Congress Website for Three Days
Library of Congress and Copyright Office also affected
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 19th, 2016
New DDoS Attack Record Is 579 Gbps, Reported in H1 2016
Most attacks are less than 1 Gbps, last less than an hour
- Hacking News
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 18th, 2016
Philippines Government Websites Hit by Massive DDoS Attacks, China Suspected
Attacks came on the same day as a controversial decision regarding China's rights over islands near the Philippines
- Hacking News
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 17th, 2016
Pokemon GO Servers Suffer DDoS Attack at the Hands of PoodleCorp
New hacking crew makes its presence felt
- Hacking News
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 14th, 2016
OurMine Hackers Attack HSBC, Stop a Few Hours Later, After Staffer Talks to Them
Reasons behind DDoS attack are currently unknown
- Hacking News
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 8th, 2016
Teen DDoSer Blames Bomb Threats on His Computer Being Infected with an RAT
Teen may have ties to the Anonymous hacking group
- Incidents
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 30th, 2016
Chinese Gambling Company Was Target of a Nine-Vector 470 Gbps DDoS Attack
The attack also reached 110 million packets per second