DDoS launchers increasingly target application processes instead of flooding networks Attackers have noticed that the world is getting better at fending off massive distributed denial-of-service attacks, and are trying to overwhelm application processes instead.…
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Summoners of web tsunamis have moved to layer 7, says Cloudflare
Before it amplifies DDoS attacks Universal Plug ‘n’ Play, that eternal feast of the black-hat, has been identified as helping to amplify denial-of-service attacks.…
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UPnP joins the ‘just turn it off on consumer devices, already’ club
But no Daily Stormer please Cloudflare made its name proxying traffic for web servers, on network ports 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS), as a defense against denial of service attacks and their ilk.…
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Cloudflare promises to tend not two, but 65,535 ports in a storm
Memcached attacks are going to be this year’s thing Last week, the code repository GitHub was taken off air in a 1.3Tbps denial of service attack. We predicted then that there would be more such attacks and it seems we were right.…
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World’s biggest DDoS attack record broken after just five days
With a special HNAP exploit just for D-Link kit Security researchers believe the author of the Satori botnet is at it again, this time attacking routers to craft a botnet dubbed “Masuta”.…
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Fresh botnet recruiting routers with weak credentials
Member of vDos booter ‘taken advantage of’ by vDos crew Brit teen Jack Chappell has avoided being sent to prison after pleading guilty to helping launch DDoS attacks against NatWest, Amazon and Netflix, among others.…
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UK teen dodges jail time for role in DDoSes on Natwest, Amazon and more
Three men admit creating and running Mirai, a botnet used to block access to much of the web.
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Mirai botnet: Three admit creating and running attack tool
But numbers aren’t everything, are they, Dyn? The Reaper IoT botnet is nowhere near as threatening as previously suggested, according to new research.…
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Reaper IoT botnet ain’t so scary, contains fewer than 20,000 drones
To be fair, the kid is only 13 A teenage tearaway with a passion for building botnets was apparently caught using the same Skype ID he used for hacking activities when applying for jobs.…
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Top tip, hacker newbs: Don’t use the same Skype ID for IoT bot herding and job ads
After first wave attacks ended, thing-herders took aim at PlayStation, XBOX and Valve The Mirai botnet that took down large chunks of the Internet in 2016 was notable for hosing targets like Krebs on Security and domain host Dyn, but research presented at a security conference last week suggests a bunch of high-profile game networks were also targeted.…
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Mirai copycats fired the IoT-cannon at game hosts, researchers find