Collaborate Disseminate
Pro-Kremlin groups Anonymous Sudan, Killnet and Clop have other motivations than just hacktivism as they widen their attack field beyond political targets.
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In Verizon’s just-released 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report, money is king, and denial of service and social engineering still hold sway.
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A 23-year-old hacker from Utah pleaded guilty this week to launching a series of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks against multiple online services, websites, and online gaming companies between 2013 and 2014.
According to a Justice Department (DoJ) pre… Continue reading Hacker Who DDoSed Sony, EA and Steam Gaming Servers Pleads Guilty
DDoS attacks is relentless. New techniques, new targets and a new class of attackers continue to reinvigorate one of the internet’s oldest nemesis. Continue reading DDoS Attacks Get Bigger, Smarter and More Diverse
Distributed Denial of Service attacks maybe one of the oldest tools in a hacker’s toolbox, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t fallen out of fashion. Continue reading ThreatList: Top Summer DDoS Trends
Memcached reflections that recently fueled two most largest amplification DDoS attacks in the history have also helped other cybercriminals launch nearly 15,000 cyber attacks against 7,131 unique targets in last ten days, a new report revealed.
Chines… Continue reading Over 15,000 Memcached DDoS Attacks Hit 7,100 Sites in Last 10 Days
Neustar’s annual DDoS attack report says businesses can lose $2.5M on average detecting and mitigating DDoS attacks. Continue reading DDoS Attacks Can Cost Businesses Up to $2.5M Per Attack, Report Says
Law enforcement from more than a dozen countries last week carried out a series of operations designed to crack down on DDoS-for-hire services. Continue reading Law Enforcement Targets Users of DDoS-For-Hire Services
DDoS has become a game now that could knock any service offline.
A Turkish hacking group is encouraging individuals to join its DDoS-for-Points platform that features points and prizes for carrying out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a list of predetermined targets.
The points earned can later be redeemed for various online click-fraud and hacking tools.
Dubbed Sath-ı
Continue reading Turkish Hackers Are Giving Away Prizes For Participating In DDoS Attacks
Note — We have published an updated article on what really happened behind the alleged DDoS attack against Liberia using Mirai botnet.
Someone is trying to take down the whole Internet of a country, and partially succeeded, by launching massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using a botnet of insecure IoT devices infected by the Mirai malware.
It all started early October when
Continue reading Someone is Using Mirai Botnet to Shut Down Internet for an Entire Country