“This is not a joke,” e-mail threatening massive DDoS says. Except it is. In less than two months, online businesses have paid more than $100,000 to scammers who set up aRead More →
A group of security researchers from the Edinburgh Napier University elaborated a new DDoS amplification technique relying on the TFTP protocol. A group of security experts from the Edinburgh NapierRead More →
A repeat of last year’s gaming outage looks to have been avoided after hacker group Phantom Group claimed it won’t target Sony and Microsoft. Last Christmas, gamers were outraged whenRead More →
Google got accidentally DDoSed by an unnamed European network carrier, sending its cloud service offline on the old continent for about an hour. The incident occurred last Monday, but itRead More →
One of the Internet’s oldest and crudest attacks experiences a resurgence. A number of sites have been hit by distributed denial-of-service attacks over the past week. Strong enough to knockRead More →
Researchers have found out that hackers took over around 900 CCTV cameras with weak login credentials and used them as a DDosS botnet that runs all around the world. AccordingRead More →
Cyber-attackers launch Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) violation on law enforcement agency in apparent revenge for previous arrests. Cyber-attackers have taken down the website of the National Crime Agency (NCA)Read More →
British police have today announced the arrest of six people in connection with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that attempted to bring down websites belonging to – amongst others – aRead More →
Six teenagers, including an 18-year-old from West Yorkshire, have been arrested on suspicion of launching cyber attacks using a service created by a notorious hacking group which previously targeted XboxRead More →
