- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 27th, 2016
A Massive Botnet of CCTV Cameras Involved in Ferocious DDoS Attacks
All clues lead back to Chinese DVR vendor TVT
- Hacking News
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 24th, 2016
Anonymous Takes Down Minnesota Courts Website for God Knows What Reason
The Minnesota Judicial Branch website has faced more DDoS attacks than many other more famous online services
- Hacking News
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 21st, 2016
Anonymous Suspected of Attacks on Central Banks in Indonesia and South Korea
... but was it really them? Because it doesn't seem so
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 7th, 2016
DDoS Attacks Reach All-Time High As Stressers Become More Sophisticated
NTP reflection DDoS attacks were the most popular vector
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 31st, 2016
DDoS Attacks via TFTP Protocol Become a Reality After Research Goes Public
The first weaponized attack script started circulating days after the researchers published their study
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 27th, 2016
Fiverr Suffers Six-Hour DDoS Attack After Removing DDoS-for-Hire Listings
Crooks give Fiverr a piece of their mind
- Incidents
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 26th, 2016
DNS Provider Under Massive DDoS Attack Lasting for More than a Week
DNS provider for Imgur, Yelp, MaxCDN is under attack
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 25th, 2016
Fiverr Removes DDoS-for-Hire Services from Its Marketplace
Scumbags were renting DDoS botnets through Fiverr
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 21st, 2016
Ransomware Adds DDoS Capabilities to Annoy Other People, Not Just You
Malware coders get creative, bundle DDoS bots and ransomware
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 17th, 2016
Japanese Kid & Wannabe Anonymous Member Shuts Down 444 Schools with DDoS Attacks
The kids wanted to teach his professors a lesson
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 8th, 2016
Anonymous Attacks Eight More Banks Part of OpIcarus
The Netherlands, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Guernsey, Maldives, Panama, and Kenya
- Advisories
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 30th, 2016
Armada Collective Copycats Now Posing as Lizard Squad in DDoS Extortion Scheme
Cloudflare says the group is making empty DDoS threats
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 26th, 2016
Survey Shows DDoS Attacks Are Now a Certainty
DDoS attacks hit three out of four companies in 2015
- Advisories
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 26th, 2016
Armada Collective Copycats Made $100,000 Only from Empty DDoS Threats
The group never launched one single DDoS attack
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 22nd, 2016
Number of DDoS Bots That Can Bypass Mitigation Tools Rises to 36 Percent
DDoS bots gain ability to hold cookies and parse JavaScript
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 14th, 2016
Lizard Squad Downs Blizzard Servers with Massive DDoS Attacks
Lizard Squad makes a comeback after long silence
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 11th, 2016
2013 DDoS Attacks on US Banking Sector Used Sweden's Military Servers
14,000 vulnerable servers still remain in Sweden