2015
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Envato Targeted by DDoS Attack, WordPress Theme Authors Report Major Decline in Sales
If you’ve attempted to access Themeforest or any other site on the Envato network lately, you may have encountered some down time. The company updated customers and community…
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New Reddit rival Voat hit by DDoS attack
A would-be rival to Reddit called Voat is getting media attention. Is that what led someone to launch a DDoS attack on Sunday? A group of disaffected users…
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UK teenager sentenced over ‘biggest’ web DDoS attack
A British teenager has been sentenced for his part in what was called the “biggest cyber attack in history”. The attack on anti-junk mail group Spamhaus in 2013…
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Planetside 2, H1Z1, Everquest servers under DDoS attacks
Lizard Squad, the notorious hacking group, is claiming responsibility for DDoS attacks on game servers for Planetside 2, Everquest, H1Z1, and more. Planetside 2 and H1Z1 developer Daybreak…
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Telegram suffers from outage in Asia after DDoS attack
Messaging app Telegram appeared to have suffered from a two-hour outage today. The service has appeared to have gone down at about 4pm and was partially restored at…
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DDoS ransom notes: why paying up will get you nowhere
DDoS attacks are getting more frequent and more harmful, but the key is not to be blackmailed If a large man stopped you on a street corner and…
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New Jersey Online Gaming Sites Hit by DDoS Attacks
Online gaming sites in New Jersey were rocked by a wave of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) last week, according to the New Jersey Division of Gaming…
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Another malware building toolkit leaked, botnets already popping up
Another malware building toolkit has been leaked, allowing less tech-savvy crooks to generate a fully functional variant of the KINS banking Trojan and to inject its configuration code…
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DDoS Wars: The Network Strikes Back
It’s time your IT department rebelled against the cybercrime empire, says Srinivasan CR, VP of global product management, data centre services at Tata Communications Distributed Denial of Service…
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BOT-GEDDON coming after ZeusVM leak, hacker warns
Why pay $5k when you can pay $0? Former Kaspersky Japan boss now malware researcher Hendrik Adrian is warning of a boom of ZeusVM botnets, after the trojan…