2016
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DDoS attacks: Cops cuff 12 British suspects in pre-Xmas clampdown
Nationwide arrests bring in number of alleged repeat offenders—mostly young men. Twelve people—almost all of whom are men under the age of 30—have been arrested in the past…
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Law enforcement operation targets users of DDoS tools
From 5 to 9 December 2016, Europol and law enforcement authorities from Australia, Belgium, France, Hungary, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and…
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DDoS script kiddies are also… actual kiddies, Europol arrests reveal
Young ‘uns hire tools to hit infrastructure, info systems Law enforcement bods at Europol have arrested 34 users of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) cyber-attack tools and interviewed…
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Russian telecom giant repels DDoS attacks on country’s 5 largest financial institutions
Russian telecom giant Rostelecom has thwarted DDoS-attacks on the five largest banks and financial institutions in the country, the company said in a statement. All the attacks were…
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A Turkish hacker is giving out prizes for DDoS attacks
But the DDoS software comes with a hidden backdoor A hacker in Turkey has been trying to encourage distributed denial-of-attacks by making it into a game, featuring points and…
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Cloud infrastructure attacks to increase in 2017, predicts Forcepoint
The cloud offers organizations a number of benefits, from simple off-site storage to rent-a-server to complete services. But 2017 will also see cloud infrastructure increasingly the target of…
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New Botnet is Attacking the US West Coast with Huge DDoS Attacks
The developers of this new botnet are inspired by Mirai success. In a blog post by CloudFlare, it has been revealed that the US West Coast is likely…