2016
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New botnet launching daily massive DDoS attacks
CloudFlare spotted a new botnet in the wild which launched massive DDoS attacks aimed at the US West Coast for 10 days in a row. A new monster…
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CloudFlare warns of another massive botnet, er, flaring up
DDoS attacks on the horizon as White House cybersecurity report issues recommendations CloudFlare has warned of another massive botnet that appears to be ramping up and targeting the…
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Warcraft, Overwatch Down? Blizzard DDoS Attacks Affect Gaming Service
Miscreants have struck Blizzard servers again with multiple waves of DDoS attacks over the last 12 hours. Warcraft and Overwatch, two massively popular games, have been facing latency,…
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New Mirai Worm Knocks 900K Germans Offline
More than 900,000 customers of German ISP Deutsche Telekom (DT) were knocked offline this week after their Internet routers got infected by a new variant of a computer…
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4 sectors vulnerable to IoT attacks in 2017
2017 is set to feature new attacks on internet infrastructure and advancements in Internet of Things security One of 2016’s key events in the tech world was the…
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World’s Biggest Mirai Botnet Is Being Rented Out For DDoS Attacks
Forbes’ Thomas Fox-Brewster recently reported on a DDoS-for-hire tool. For $7500, anyone who wanted to cause a little online mayhem could rent an army of 100,000 bots. Its controllers boasted…
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European Commission Hit By DDoS Attack
A cyber-attack took the European Commission’s services offline on Thursday, although it is thought hackers didn’t gain access to any systems and no data was compromised. According to …