The police learned about their activity after starting to investigate the website in 2020, following complaints from a game server that was the victim of a DDoS attack via minesearch.rip. click here to read...
Ukrainian law enforcement authorities on Monday disclosed the arrest of a hacker running a powerful botnet consisting of over 100,000 devices that was used to carry out DDoS and spam attacks. click here to...
Project dedicated to provide DDoS protection with proof-of-work Description PoW Shield provides DDoS protection on OSI application layer by acting as a proxy that utilizes proof of work between the backend service and the...
Canada-based VoIP provider VoIP.ms is battling a week-long, massive ransom distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The company that provides internet telephony services to businesses across the US and Canada has over 80,000 customers in 125...
According to Kaspersky, the first half of 2021 witnessed 1.5 billion IoT attacks, double the number from the previous year, with a variety of intentions, including mining cryptocurrency and stealing data. Attackers are largely...
Russian internet giant Yandex has been the target of a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by a new botnet called Mēris. The botnet is believed to have pummeled the company’s web infrastructure with millions...
The messages contain fake alerts about the sites being involved in DDoS attacks. They contain a legal threat, along with a file in a Google Drive folder that reportedly offers evidence of the attack...
The Philippine human rights alliance Karapatan has suffered a massive and prolonged Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack for the past three weeks. The attack comes only a month after the waves of DDoS...
Cloudflare says it stopped the largest DDoS attack ever reported! Cloudflare claimed that its system was able to stop the largest DDoS attack reported in July. They explained in a blog post how the...
Cybercriminals behind the BazaLoader malware came up with a new lure to trick website owners into opening malicious files: fake notifications about the site being engaged in DDoS attacks. click here to read full...
Cloudflare said this attack peaked at 17.2 million HTTP requests/second (rps), a figure that the company described as almost three times larger than any previously reported volumetric DDoS attack. click here to read full...
Web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare on Thursday disclosed that it mitigated the largest ever volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack recorded to date. The attack, launched via a Mirai botnet, is...
A group of academics stated that network middleboxes such as firewalls, Network Address Translators (NATs), load balancers, and Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) boxes can be weaponized to launch more sophisticated DDoS reflection amplification attacks....
Weaknesses in the implementation of TCP protocol in middleboxes and censorship infrastructure could be weaponized as a vector to stage reflected denial of service (DoS) amplification attacks, surpassing many of the existing UDP-based amplification factors to...
Academics discovered a novel DDoS attack vector abusing the TCP protocol. The new DDoS technique can be used to launch attacks with amplification factors in the realm of 1000x and more. click here to...
News overview In terms of big news, Q2 2021 was relatively calm, but not completely eventless. For example, April saw the active distribution of a new DDoS botnet called Simps — the name under which it...
