2016
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Meet DDoSaaS: Distributed Denial of Service-as-a-Service
Cracking the grey market in rent-a-borkers Analysis It’s not often an entirely new and thriving sector of the “digital economy” – one hitherto unmentioned by the popular…
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Hack reveals the inner workings of shady DDoS service vDOS
A web service that helped customers carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on unsuspecting victims has been hacked revealing data on the customers that availed of this clandestine…
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DDoS Extortionist Copycats Continue To Hound Victims
It has been a while sine I wrote about this subject (or about anything at all for that matter) but, it occurred to me to today that the…
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Group claiming to be the Armada Collective threatens DDoS attack
Cybercriminals claiming to be the Armada Collective have sent out extortion emails threatening independent and small businesses with DDoS attacks. A group of cybercriminals which claim to be…
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Luabot malware used to launch DDoS attacks
A security researcher discovered a Trojan that infects Linux platforms used in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. According to MalwareMustDie, the security researcher responsible for the discovery,…
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World Of Warcraft: Legion’ Goes Down As Blizzard Servers Hit With DDoS
To commemorate the launch of the latest World of Warcraft expansion, Legion , Blizzard’s servers were taken down by a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack on Wednesday.…
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Rio 2016 Olympics Suffered Sustained 540Gbps DDoS Attacks
Arbor security claims Rio was a success in terms of mitigating powerful, prolonged DDoS attacks Public facing websites belonging to organisations affiliated with the 2016 Rio Olympics were…