DDoS

Dutch police send warning letters to DDoS booter customers

The police learned about their activity after starting to investigate the website in 2020, following complaints from a game server… Read More

3 years ago

Ukraine Arrests Operator of DDoS Botnet with 100,000 Compromised Devices

Ukrainian law enforcement authorities on Monday disclosed the arrest of a hacker running a powerful botnet consisting of over 100,000… Read More

3 years ago

PoW-Shield – Project Dedicated To Fight DDoS And Spam With Proof Of Work, Featuring An Additional WA

Project dedicated to provide DDoS protection with proof-of-workDescription PoW Shield provides DDoS protection on OSI application layer by acting as… Read More

3 years ago

VoIP company disrupted by massive ransom DDoS attack

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… Read More

3 years ago

IoT Attacks Ramps up at 2X Speed

According to Kaspersky, the first half of 2021 witnessed 1.5 billion IoT attacks, double the number from the previous year,… Read More

3 years ago

Mēris Botnet Hit Russia's Yandex With Massive 22 Million RPS DDoS Attack

Russian internet giant Yandex has been the target of a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by a new botnet called… Read More

3 years ago

Fake DDoS Alerts Leading to BazaLoader

The messages contain fake alerts about the sites being involved in DDoS attacks. They contain a legal threat, along with… Read More

3 years ago

DDoS attacks target the Philippine human rights alliance Karapatan

The Philippine human rights alliance Karapatan has suffered a massive and prolonged Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack for the… Read More

3 years ago

Cloudflare’s system detected and mitigated a 17.2 million request-per-second DDoS attack

Cloudflare says it stopped the largest DDoS attack ever reported! Cloudflare claimed that its system was able to stop the… Read More

3 years ago

Cybercriminals Behind BazaLoader Malware Use Fake DMCA Complaints, DDoS Threats to Lure Victims

Cybercriminals behind the BazaLoader malware came up with a new lure to trick website owners into opening malicious files: fake… Read More

3 years ago

Cloudflare says it mitigated a record-breaking 17.2M rps DDoS attack

Cloudflare said this attack peaked at 17.2 million HTTP requests/second (rps), a figure that the company described as almost three… Read More

3 years ago

Cloudflare mitigated one of the largest DDoS attack involving 17.2 million rps

Web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare on Thursday disclosed that it mitigated the largest ever volumetric distributed denial of… Read More

3 years ago

The Looming Threat of TCP-based DDoS Reflection Amplification Attack

A group of academics stated that network middleboxes such as firewalls, Network Address Translators (NATs), load balancers, and Deep Packet… Read More

3 years ago

Attackers Can Weaponize Firewalls and Middleboxes for Amplified DDoS Attacks

Weaknesses in the implementation of TCP protocol in middleboxes and censorship infrastructure could be weaponized as a vector to stage reflected denial… Read More

3 years ago

Firewalls and Middleboxes Can be Weaponized for Massive DDoS Attacks Using New Technique

Academics discovered a novel DDoS attack vector abusing the TCP protocol. The new DDoS technique can be used to launch… Read More

3 years ago

DDoS attacks in Q2 2021

News overview In terms of big news, Q2 2021 was relatively calm, but not completely eventless. For example, April saw the… Read More

3 years ago