2016
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Tumblr outage reported in US and Europe; may be result of DDoS attack
Tumblr appears to the target of a distributed denial of service attack, with users unable to access the blogging site. The outage reportedly began just before 3:30pm ET,…
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Cyber criminals compromising virtual machines in cloud to increase scale of DDoS
The recently released Microsoft’s latest Security Intelligence Report states that cyber-criminals are compromising virtual machines in the cloud as a way to vastly increase the scale of Distributed…
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Hackers hit Thai government with DDoS attacks protesting against restrictive internet law
Classified government records are believed to have been accessed by the hackers. Anonymous hackers have reportedly hit Thailand government websites with targeted DDoS attacks in retaliation for the…
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Indian Bitcoin Exchange Suffers Outage as DDoS Attacks Continue
T he onslaught of DDoS attacks targeting bitcoin websites around the world isn’t showing any signs of abating as an Indian bitcoin exchange came under attack today. Indian…
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The new age of DDoS – And we ‘joked’ that toasters would one day take down our banks
The size of DDoS attacks has increased exponentially thanks to hackers and cyber criminals making use of the IoT. A few years ago, just as the ‘Internet of…
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Battlefield 1: Are servers up after DDoS attack by The Phantom Squad?
It seems that the servers of popular first-person-shooter game Battlefield 1 have fallen victim to an attack by a hacker group which is said to have resorted to employing…
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FBI Tries to Curb Young DDoS Hackers
In coordination with Europol’s European Cyber Crime Centre (EC3), the FBI conducted a series of interviews and arrests Dec. 5-9 aimed at reducing the number of young people…
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Cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e resumes operations after DDoS attack
Leading cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e announced on early Thursday morning (around 5:30 am EST) that it was under Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, CoinTelegraph reported. The website went…
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Parliament website brought down by DDoS attack ‘just ten minutes’
House of Representatives Secretary General Surasak Pianwej Friday expressed confidence that the Parliament website has been effectively guarded against DDoS attack, saying the attack by angry Internet users…