DDoSInfo

2018

13 Apr 2018

DDoS Criminals

Cloudflare promises to tend not two, but 65,535 ports in a storm

But no Daily Stormer please Cloudflare made its name proxying traffic for web servers, on network ports 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS), as a defense against denial of…
5 Apr 2018

DDoS News

Brain monitor had remote code execution and DoS flaw

I told you I was sick Cisco’s Talos security limb has warned that specialist medical hardware has remote code execution and denial of service bugs.…
26 Mar 2018

DDoS News, DDoS Vendors

Do you have what it takes to withstand modern DDoS attacks?

As the latest record DDoS attack hit GitHub and threatened to overwhelm its edge network, the popular Git-repository hosting service quickly switched to routing the attack traffic to…
22 Mar 2018

DDoS News, Security Websies

Malware leverages web injects to empty users’ cryptocurrency accounts

Criminals trying to get their hands on victims’ cryptocurrency stashes are trying out various approaches. The latest one includes equipping malware with Man-in-the-Browser capabilities so they can hijack…
12 Mar 2018

DDoS Criminals, DDoS News, Security Websies

Cavalry riding to the rescue of DDOS-deluged memcached users

Attacks tapering, as experts argue over ‘kill switch’ DDoS attacks taking advantage of ill-advised use of memcached have begun to decline, either because sysadmins are securing the process,…
5 Mar 2018

DDoS Criminals, DDoS News, DDoS Vendors

World’s biggest DDoS attack record broken after just five days

Memcached attacks are going to be this year’s thing Last week, the code repository GitHub was taken off air in a 1.3Tbps denial of service attack. We predicted…
5 Mar 2018

DDoS Criminals, DDoS News

Week in review: Memcached-based reflected DDoS attacks, new issue of (IN)SECURE

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Automating out of the skill gap sinkhole When thinking about the bigger picture, information security…
28 Feb 2018

DDoS Criminals

Surge in memcached-based reflected DDoS attacks is due to misconfigured servers

Massive memcached-based reflection DDoS attacks with an unprecedented amplification factor have been ongoing for the last few days, by taking advantage of memcached servers exposed to the Internet.…
15 Feb 2018

DDoS Criminals

IoT botnet bypasses firewalls to get to ZyXEL modems

NewSky Security’s honeypots have detected a new IoT botnet in the making. The botnet was named DoubleDoor, as it leverages two distinct backdoors to get to the target:…
8 Feb 2018

DDoS Criminals, DDoS Vendors, Security Websies

Now that’s taking the p… Sewage plant ‘hacked’ to craft crypto-coins

Mining Monero on SCADA networks? Why can’t you kids be normal and just DDoS Updated Infosec bods say they have uncovered what’s thought to be the first…