- 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
- Virus alerts
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 13th, 2016
Linux Computers Targeted by New Backdoor and DDoS Trojan
Threat level is not high, the virus requires users to give it root privileges in order to infect their computers
- 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
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 9th, 2016
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
- Hacking News
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 8th, 2016
Vengeful Hacker Risks Ten Years in Prison for DDoSing Security Firm's Website
Hacker also harassed security researcher by spamming his IRC channel and by sending sex toys to his house
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 7th, 2016
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
Nitol botnet carries out huge 8.7 Gbps Layer 7 DDoS attack
- Virus alerts
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 31st, 2016
Remaiten Is a New DDoS Bot Targeting Linux-Based Home Routers
Infections occur on devices that have their Telnet port open
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 31st, 2016
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
Company will move on to Bitcoin-based hardware products
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 24th, 2016
US Charges Seven Iranians with DDoSing Banks, Hacking NY Dam
Hackers caused millions worth of damages to US banks
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 17th, 2016
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
Attacks have an amplification factor of 60