2015
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Linux botnet observed launching powerful DDoS attacks
Threat actors are leveraging a botnet made up of infected Linux machines to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against as many as 20 targets per day, according…
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XOR DDoS botnet launching attacks from compromised Linux machines
Attackers have developed a botnet capable of 150+ Gbps DDoS attack campaigns using XOR DDoS, a Trojan malware used to hijack Linux systems, according to Akamai. What is…
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New DDoS attack uses smartphone browsers to flood site with 4.5bn requests
Researchers have found that smartphone browsers can deliver a powerful flooding attack. Researchers suspect a mobile advertising network has been used to point hundreds of thousands of smartphone…
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Hacker Exfocus Blamed For Knocking Rutgers University Offline With DDoS Attack, Even After Expensive Upgrade
Someone is tormenting Rutgers University. The New Jersey school announced Monday it was fending off a distributed denial-of-service attack that crippled its Internet and Wi-Fi access. The latest cyberattack on…
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Anonymous Launches DDoS Attacks Several Saudi Arabian Websites, Brings Focus to a Teen’s Execution #OpNimr
In taking a stand and making a direct protest against the death sentence handed in 2012 to a 17-year old teenager Mohammed al-Nimr, Anonymous has crippled multiple Saudi…
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Mobile ad network exploited to launch JavaScript-based DDoS attack
A type of DDoS attack that has until now been mostly theoretical has become reality: CloudFlare engineers have spotted a browser-based Layer 7 flood hitting one of its…
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Mobile advertising DDoS JavaScript drip serves site with 4.5 billion hits
CloudFlare has turned up an unusual form of denial-of-service attack: mobile advertisements that are pumping out around 275,000 HTTP requests per second.…
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Hackers Used Imgur to Launch DDoS Attacks on 4chan
A Reddit user has uncovered a covert method of carrying DDoS attacks on 4chan’s infrastructure using images hosted on Imgur, via Reddit. According to Reddit user rt4nyp, who…