DDoSInfo

2019

18 Sep 2019

DDoS Criminals, Security Websies

DNSSEC fueling new wave of DNS amplification attacks

DNS amplification attacks swelled in the second quarter of this year, with the amplified attacks spiking more than 1,000% compared with Q2 2018, according to Nexusguard. Researchers attributed…
5 Sep 2019

DDoS News, DDoS Vendors, Security Websies

Newb admits he ran Satori botnet that turned thousands of hacked devices into a 100Gbps+ DDoS-for-hire cannon

One moron down, two to go The script kiddie at the center of the Satori botnet case has pleaded guilty.…
28 Aug 2019

DDoS Criminals, DDoS Vendors, Security Websies

Time to spin the wheel of pwnage! This week, malware can infect your…. Android set-top box!

IoT botnets move into the home theater market in search of low-hanging fruit Set-top tuner boxes have become the infection vector in the spread of Internet of Things…
14 Aug 2019

DDoS News

The changing face of DDoS attacks: Degraded performance instead of total takedown

The number of DDoS attacks might be getting higher, but they are not all massive nor do they always trigger DDoS defenses. In fact, small-scale DDoS attacks are…
14 Aug 2019

DDoS Criminals

HTTP/2, Brute! Then fall, server. Admin! Ops! The server is dead

Beware the denials of service: Netflix warns of eight networking bugs On Tuesday, Netflix, working in conjunction with Google and CERT/CC, published a security advisory covering a series…
14 Aug 2019

DDoS News

Magic Transit allows customers to send any packet of data across Cloudflare’s network

Cloudflare, a leading Internet security, performance, and reliability company, announced Magic Transit, a product that extends the benefits of Cloudflare’s network to customers’ on-premise and data center networks.…
4 Jul 2019

DDoS Vendors

Get rekt: Two years in clink for game-busting DDoS brat DerpTrolling

It’s all lulz until someone goes to prison Austin Thompson, aka DerpTrolling, who came to prominence in 2013 by launching Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against major…
21 Jun 2019

DDoS News, DDoS Vendors

Countering industrial cyberthreats with secure, standards-based, licensed wireless networks

Over the past few years, cyber threats aimed at a number of critical infrastructure targets have drawn our attention to the security of mission critical networks. These threats…
20 Jun 2019

Security Websies

Botnets shift from Windows towards Linux and IoT platforms

Botnets in 2018 continued to use DDoS as their primary weapon to attack high-speed networks, according to NSFOCUS. Continuous monitoring and research of botnets discovered significant changes taking…
20 Jun 2019

DDoS Criminals, Security Websies

Imperva Application Security portfolio provides protection for any attack size

Imperva, the cybersecurity leader championing the fight to secure data and applications wherever they reside, announced significant enhancements to the Imperva Application Security portfolio, now offering targeted protection…