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Lawmakers Asking What ISPs Can Do About DDoS Attacks

Posted on October 26, 2016 by Michael Mimoso

Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia wrote a letter to the heads of the FCC, FTC and DHS asking whether ISPs have the power to keep insecure connected devices off the public Internet. Continue reading Lawmakers Asking What ISPs Can Do About DDoS Attacks→

Dyn DDoS Work of Script Kiddies, Not Politically Motivated Hackers

Posted on October 25, 2016 by Michael Mimoso

Researchers at Flashpoint said Friday’s DDoS attack against DNS provider Dyn was likely the work of script kiddies and not advanced attackers. Continue reading Dyn DDoS Work of Script Kiddies, Not Politically Motivated Hackers→

Source Code for IoT Botnet ‘Mirai’ Released

Posted on October 1, 2016 by BrianKrebs

The source code that powers the “Internet of Things” (IoT) botnet responsible for launching the historically large distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against KrebsOnSecurity last month has been publicly released, virtually guaranteeing that the Internet will soon be flooded with attacks from many new botnets powered by insecure routers, IP cameras, DVRs and other easily hackable IoT devices. Continue reading Source Code for IoT Botnet ‘Mirai’ Released→

Israeli Online Attack Service ‘vDOS’ Earned $600,000 in Two Years

Posted on September 8, 2016 by BrianKrebs

vDOS — a so-called “booter” service that has earned in excess of $600,000 over the past two years helping customers coordinate more than 150,000 so-called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks designed to knock Web sites offline — has been massively hacked, spilling secrets about tens of thousands of paying customers and their targets.

The vDOS database, obtained by KrebsOnSecurity.com at the end of July 2016, points to two young men in Israel as the principle owners and masterminds of the attack service, with support services coming from several young hackers in the United States.

The vDOS database, obtained by KrebsOnSecurity.com, points to two young men in Israel as the principle owners and masterminds of the attack service, with support services coming from several young hackers in the United States.