- Linux
- By Silviu Stahie
- October 1st, 2015
XOR DDoS Malware for Linux Attacks Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
The truth about what this malware infects is different
- Incidents
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 30th, 2015
Despite New Equipment, Rutgers University Goes Down After DDoS Attack
As with previous attacks, hacker Exfocus is to blame
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 29th, 2015
XOR DDoS Botnet Uses Compromised Linux Machines to Launch 150+ Gbps Attacks
XOR DDoS botnet launches 150 Gbps attacks against Chinese targets
- Incidents
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 29th, 2015
Anonymous Takes On Saudi Government over Teenager's Impending Execution UPDATE
Anonymous tries a last ditch effort to convince the Saudi government to save Ali Mohammed al-Nimr's life
- Incidents
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 27th, 2015
Mobile Ad Network Used in DDoS Attack
The attack originated in China and used Chinese mobile users
- Virus alerts
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 25th, 2015
Kasidet DDOSing Bot Adds Credit Card Scraping Capabilities
DDOS bot gets upgraded with PoS RAM scraping feature
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 24th, 2015
Infographic: DDOS Attacks vs. the Online Gambling Industry
Hackers have 40 billion reasons to target gambling sites
- Incidents
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 22nd, 2015
Hackers Used Imgur to Launch DDOS Attacks on 4chan
Malicious code injected in Imgur images used a Reddit thread to bombard 4chan servers with millions of requests
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 19th, 2015
Kremlin Blames Recent DDOS on US Hackers
Hackers tried to alter Election Day data
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 18th, 2015
New PoS Trojan Can Download Other Malware, Launch DDOS Attacks
Trojan.MWZLesson is one of the most sophisticated PoS malware strands ever found, mixes code from different malware
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 17th, 2015
DDoS Attacks Used to Mask More Serious Intrusions
Most of the times it's malware infections and data breaches
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 10th, 2015
DD4BC Hacker Group Blackmails Companies for Bitcoin Using DDOS Attacks
The group required payments between 25 and 100 Bitcoin
- Incidents
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 29th, 2015
Recent GitHub DDOS Linked to Chinese Government and Two GitHub Projects
China wanted two GitHub projects that circumvented the Great Chinese Firewall to be taken off the site
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 16th, 2015
Infographic: How DDOS Attacks Work
45% of all Web organizations are affected by DDOS attacks
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 16th, 2015
DRDoS Attacks Can Now Propagate via BitTorrent Clients UPDATE
BitTorrent, Vuze, and uTorrent clients are vulnerable
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 5th, 2015
Dota 2 The International 2015 Tournament Delayed by DDOS Attack
Games resume after 3 hours of waiting around
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 29th, 2015
OurMine Graduates from Hacking Skype Accounts to DDOSing Financial Institutions
OurMine launches 117 Gbps DDOS on 9 financial institutions