- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 9th, 2016
![UK Teen That Sold DDoS Tools on the Dark Web Avoids Going to Prison <em>UPDATED</em> UK Teen That Sold DDoS Tools on the Dark Web Avoids Going to Prison <em>UPDATED</em>](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/uk-teen-that-sold-ddos-tools-on-the-dark-web-avoids-going-to-prison-1.jpg)
UK Teen That Sold DDoS Tools on the Dark Web Avoids Going to Prison UPDATED
Grand Manser was the author of DDoS stressers like Dejabooter, Vexstresser, netspoof and Refinedstresser
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 7th, 2016
![DDoS Attacks with BillGates Linux Malware Intensify DDoS Attacks with BillGates Linux Malware Intensify](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/ddos-attacks-with-billgates-linux-malware-intensify-1.jpg)
DDoS Attacks with BillGates Linux Malware Intensify
XOR botnet authors migrate to using BillGates malware
- Incidents
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 6th, 2016
![New Record Set for Layer 7 DDoS Attacks by Nitol Botnet New Record Set for Layer 7 DDoS Attacks by Nitol Botnet](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/new-record-set-for-layer-7-ddos-attacks-by-nitol-botnet-1.png)
New Record Set for Layer 7 DDoS Attacks by Nitol Botnet
Nitol botnet carries out huge 8.7 Gbps Layer 7 DDoS attack
- Hacking News
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 1st, 2016
![Anonymous Attacks Angolan Government in Response to the Jailing of 17 Activists Anonymous Attacks Angolan Government in Response to the Jailing of 17 Activists](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/anonymous-attacks-angolan-government-in-response-to-the-jailing-of-17-activists-1.jpg)
Anonymous Attacks Angolan Government in Response to the Jailing of 17 Activists
Group starts DDoS attacks against Angolan government
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 31st, 2016
![Multi-Vector DDoS Attacks Are Becoming the Norm Multi-Vector DDoS Attacks Are Becoming the Norm](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/multi-vector-ddos-attacks-are-becoming-the-norm-1.jpg)
Multi-Vector DDoS Attacks Are Becoming the Norm
47% of all multi-vector DDoS attacks were launched in Q4 '15
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 29th, 2016
![Repeated DDoS Attacks Force Coinkite Bitcoin Wallet to Close Down Web Service Repeated DDoS Attacks Force Coinkite Bitcoin Wallet to Close Down Web Service](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/repeated-ddos-attacks-force-coinkit-bitcoin-wallet-to-close-down-web-service-1.png)
Repeated DDoS Attacks Force Coinkite Bitcoin Wallet to Close Down Web Service
Company will move on to Bitcoin-based hardware products
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 17th, 2016
![Malware Botnet Can Be Abused to Launch DDoS Attacks Malware Botnet Can Be Abused to Launch DDoS Attacks](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/malware-botnet-can-be-abused-to-launch-ddos-attacks-1.png)
Malware Botnet Can Be Abused to Launch DDoS Attacks
DDoS attacks can have an amplification factor of 26.5
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 10th, 2016
![600,000 TFTP Servers Can Be Abused for Reflection DDoS Attacks 600,000 TFTP Servers Can Be Abused for Reflection DDoS Attacks](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/600-000-tftp-servers-can-be-abused-for-reflection-ddos-attacks-1.png)
600,000 TFTP Servers Can Be Abused for Reflection DDoS Attacks
Attacks have an amplification factor of 60
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 9th, 2016
![DDoS Malware Became Very Popular This Past January DDoS Malware Became Very Popular This Past January](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/ddos-malware-became-very-popular-this-past-january-1.png)
DDoS Malware Became Very Popular This Past January
There's a need for DDoS tools and services on the market
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 4th, 2016
![Can You Guess How Much a Russian DDoSer Makes per Day? Can You Guess How Much a Russian DDoSer Makes per Day?](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/can-you-guess-how-much-does-a-russian-ddoser-make-per-day-1.png)
Can You Guess How Much a Russian DDoSer Makes per Day?
Security firm tracked DDoS botnet for three months
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 25th, 2016
![Google's Project Shield Aims to Protect News Sites from DDoS Attacks Google's Project Shield Aims to Protect News Sites from DDoS Attacks](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/google-s-project-shield-aims-to-protect-news-sites-from-ddos-attacks-1.png)
Google's Project Shield Aims to Protect News Sites from DDoS Attacks
Human rights and elections monitoring services can also apply and get free DDoS protection from Google
- Server related
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 18th, 2016
![One in Five Data Centers Outages Is Caused by DDoS Attacks One in Five Data Centers Outages Is Caused by DDoS Attacks](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/one-in-five-data-centers-outages-is-caused-by-ddos-attacks-1.png)
One in Five Data Centers Outages Is Caused by DDoS Attacks
Outages caused by IT equipment failures are the most expensive incidents to fix, at $995 per interruption
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 17th, 2016
![26,000 WordPress Sites Leveraged in Layer 7 DDoS Attack 26,000 WordPress Sites Leveraged in Layer 7 DDoS Attack](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/26-000-wordpress-sites-leveraged-in-layer-7-ddos-attack-1.png)
26,000 WordPress Sites Leveraged in Layer 7 DDoS Attack
Attackers (ab)used WordPress' pingback utility, again!
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 16th, 2016
![Akamai Detected Over 400 Reflection DDoS Attacks Leveraging DNSSEC Protocol Akamai Detected Over 400 Reflection DDoS Attacks Leveraging DNSSEC Protocol](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/akamai-detected-over-400-reflection-ddos-attacks-leveraging-dnssec-protocol-1.png)
Akamai Detected Over 400 Reflection DDoS Attacks Leveraging DNSSEC Protocol
DDoS attacks can reach an amplification factor of 8
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 29th, 2016
![Linux-Based Botnets Accounted for More than Half of DDoS Attacks in Q4 2015 Linux-Based Botnets Accounted for More than Half of DDoS Attacks in Q4 2015](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/linux-based-botnets-accounted-for-more-than-half-of-ddos-attacks-in-q4-2015-1.png)
Linux-Based Botnets Accounted for More than Half of DDoS Attacks in Q4 2015
The number of Linux DDoSing bots surpasses Windows for the first time ever, thanks to IoT devices and SOHO routers
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 29th, 2016
![UK Bank HSBC Hit by DDoS Attack on One of the Most Important Days of the Year UK Bank HSBC Hit by DDoS Attack on One of the Most Important Days of the Year](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/uk-bank-hsbc-hit-by-ddos-attack-1.png)
UK Bank HSBC Hit by DDoS Attack on One of the Most Important Days of the Year
Bank says it will be open tomorrow to compensate downtime
- SEO-Related
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 28th, 2016
![Some Black Hat SEO Campaigns Look like DDoS Attacks These Days Some Black Hat SEO Campaigns Look like DDoS Attacks These Days](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/some-black-hat-seo-campaigns-look-like-ddos-attacks-these-days-1.jpg)
Some Black Hat SEO Campaigns Look like DDoS Attacks These Days
Customers panics when sees huge traffic, calls in the help of a cyber-security vendor to protect him from a DDoS attack