When Project Tor director Roger Dingledine recently drew the public's attention to the unusual and considerable rise in the number of Tor users, he invited people to speculate and share plausible expl…
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Massive spike of Tor users caused by Mevade botnet
Denial of Service (DoS) attacks continue to be on the rise, which is no surprise given our ever-growing dependency on Web-based services, coupled with the fact that these attacks are relatively cheap …
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Understanding and defending against Denial of Service attacks
‘No humans are behind these clients’ The recent spike in traffic on the Tor anonymizing relay network is probably due to botnet activity rather than any recent political developments, research by Tor Project members has concluded.…
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Tor traffic torrent: It ain’t the Syrians, it’s the BOTS
When first unearthed three months ago, the Obad Android Trojan has fascinated researchers with its sophistication. Difficult to analyze, using a bug in the Android OS to extend Device Administrato…
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Obad Android Trojan distributed via mobile botnets
Prolexic shared attack signatures and details that are helpful to detect and stop DDoS attacks from the Drive DDoS toolkit, an attack tool often used as a source of distraction while criminals break i…
Kelihos is a botnet which utilizes P2P communication to maintain its CnC Network. With all of the attention around Kelihos, it should be no surprise that 30/45 AV vendors are detecting the latest inst…
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Kelihos botnet: What victims can expect
China says it has been hit by a large distributed denial of service attack targeting “.cn” websites.
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China hit by ‘biggest’ cyber-attack
Middle Kingdom pledges immediate action The China Internet Network Information Center (CINIC) has reported that on Sunday it suffered the largest ever DDoS attack it has ever experienced against the .cn domain, an assault that took ten hours to knock down.…
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Chinese authorities says massive DDoS attack took down .cn domain
Middle Kingdom pledges immediate action The China Internet Network Information Center (CINIC) has reported that on Sunday it suffered the largest ever DDoS attack it has ever experienced against the .cn domain, an assault that took ten hours to knock down.…
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Chinese authorities say massive DDoS attack took down .cn domain
The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), which maintains the registry for the .cn, China's country code top-level domain, has notified the public that two massive DDoS attacks have been …
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Largest DDoS attack ever disrupts China's Internet