DDoSInfo

2019

28 Jan 2019

DDoS News, DDoS Vendors

How accepting that your network will get hacked will help you develop a plan to recover faster

As anyone in the network security world will tell you, it is an extremely intense and stressful job to protect the corporate network from ever-evolving security threats. For…
27 Jan 2019

DDoS Criminals, DDoS Vendors, Security Websies

Week in review: Man in the Cloud attacks, Google GDPR fine, business resilience

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Bug in widespread Wi-Fi chipset firmware can lead to zero-click code execution A vulnerability in…
25 Jan 2019

DDoS Criminals, DDoS News, Security Websies

Vulnerable cloud infrastructure experiencing increasing attacks

Attackers are increasingly targeting vulnerable cloud infrastructure to exploit it for covert cryptojacking or to deliver ransomware, Securonix researchers warn. Some attacks are fairly trivial, but others are…
22 Jan 2019

DDoS News

SSDP amplification attacks rose 639%

The Nexusguard Q3 2018 Threat Report has revealed the emergence of an extremely stealthy DDoS attack pattern targeting communications service providers (CSPs). Comparison between normal attack traffic and…
21 Jan 2019

DDoS Criminals, DDoS Vendors

Researchers analyze DDoS attacks as coordinated gang activities

In a new report, NSFOCUS introduced the IP Chain-Gang concept, in which each chain-gang is controlled by a single threat actor or a group of related threat actors…
19 Jan 2019

DDoS News

DDoS sueball, felonious fonts, leaky Android file manager, blundering building security, etc etc

Plus, Safari security foiled by… a finger swipe? Roundup This week we wrangled with alleged Russian election meddling, hundreds of millions of username-password combos spilled online ,…
14 Jan 2019

DDoS Criminals, DDoS News, Security Websies

Hackers who DDoSed African telecom and US hospital get long prison sentences

Two men who launched DDoS attacks against a variety of targets have received substantial prison sentences on Friday. Attacks against Liberian telecom 30-year-old Daniel Kaye (aka “BestBuy”), from…
14 Jan 2019

DDoS Criminals, DDoS News, Security Websies

Brit hacker hired by Liberian telco to nobble rival now behind bars

Bloke binned at Blackfriars for blasting botnet to bork broadband A Surrey man has been jailed for 32 months after admitting to launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against…
11 Jan 2019

DDoS News, DDoS Vendors

No plain sailing for Anon hacktivist picked up by Disney cruise ship: 10 years in the cooler for hospital DDoS caper

Healthcare networks pummeled amid drama over teen girl’s custody Five months after he was found guilty of orchestrating a distributed denial-of-service attack against US healthcare providers, the self-styled…
10 Jan 2019

Security Websies

Cisco fixes serious DoS flaws in its email security appliances

Cisco has plugged a heap of security holes in many of its products, including two vulnerabilities (one critical) that open its email security appliances to denial of service…