Category Archives: Denial of Service

Robot Dog Internet Jammer

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Supposedly the DHS has these:

The robot, called “NEO,” is a modified version of the “Quadruped Unmanned Ground Vehicle” (Q-UGV) sold to law enforcement by a company called Ghost Robotics. Benjamine Huffman, the director of DHS’s Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC), told police at the 2024 Border Security Expo in Texas that DHS is increasingly worried about criminals setting “booby traps” with internet of things and smart home devices, and that NEO allows DHS to remotely disable the home networks of a home or building law enforcement is raiding. The Border Security Expo is open only to law enforcement and defense contractors. A transcript of Huffman’s speech was obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Dave Maass using a Freedom of Information Act request and was shared with 404 Media…

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DDoS-for-hire site DigitalStress taken down by police, suspected owner arrested

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It has been revealed that earlier this month a website which offered a DDoS-for-hire service was taken offline by law enforcement, but only after they collected data about its criminal customers.

Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading DDoS-for-hire site DigitalStress taken down by police, suspected owner arrested→

Cloudflare Reports that Almost 7% of All Internet Traffic Is Malicious

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6.8%, to be precise.

From ZDNet:

However, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks continue to be cybercriminals’ weapon of choice, making up over 37% of all mitigated traffic. The scale of these attacks is staggering. In the first quarter of 2024 alone, Cloudflare blocked 4.5 million unique DDoS attacks. That total is nearly a third of all the DDoS attacks they mitigated the previous year.

But it’s not just about the sheer volume of DDoS attacks. The sophistication of these attacks is increasing, too. Last August, Cloudflare mitigated a massive HTTP/2 Rapid Reset DDoS attack that peaked at 201 million requests per second (RPS)…

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Smashing Security podcast #378: Julian Assange, inside a DDoS attack, and deepfake traumas

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Wikileaks’s Julian Assange is a free man, deepfakes cause trouble in the playground, and we hear hot takes about ransomware and tales from inside a devastating denial-of-service attack.

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Is it possible to do any kind of DoS attack to IoT boards without being on the same network? [closed]

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Context: I have to do a project for a university course in which I have to keep a temperature sensor within a range of temperatures; building something to cool it down and something to heat it up. We are allowed to build other stuff to bot… Continue reading Is it possible to do any kind of DoS attack to IoT boards without being on the same network? [closed]→

Notorious Nemesis Market zapped by video game-loving German police

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Nemesis Market, a notorious corner of the darknet beloved by cybercriminals and drug dealers, has been suddenly shut down after German police seized control of its systems.

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No, Toothbrushes Were Not Used in a Massive DDoS Attack

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The widely reported story last week that 1.5 million smart toothbrushes were hacked and used in a DDoS attack is false.
Near as I can tell, a German reporter talking to someone at Fortinet got it wrong, and then everyone else ran with it without readin… Continue reading No, Toothbrushes Were Not Used in a Massive DDoS Attack→