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Infected Android phones could flood America’s 911 with DDoS attacks
One killer trojanised app or $100k of hardware is enough. A research trio has shown how thousands of malware-infected phones could launch automated distributed denial of service attacks…
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DDoS Attacks Up by 75 Percent in Q2 2016
The largest attack detected in the second quarter peaked at 256 Gbps, according to Verisign. According to the Verisign DDoS Trends Report for the second quarter of 2016, the number…
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Meet DDoSaaS: Distributed Denial of Service-as-a-Service
Cracking the grey market in rent-a-borkers Analysis It’s not often an entirely new and thriving sector of the “digital economy” – one hitherto unmentioned by the popular…
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Hack reveals the inner workings of shady DDoS service vDOS
A web service that helped customers carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on unsuspecting victims has been hacked revealing data on the customers that availed of this clandestine…
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DDoS Extortionist Copycats Continue To Hound Victims
It has been a while sine I wrote about this subject (or about anything at all for that matter) but, it occurred to me to today that the…
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Group claiming to be the Armada Collective threatens DDoS attack
Cybercriminals claiming to be the Armada Collective have sent out extortion emails threatening independent and small businesses with DDoS attacks. A group of cybercriminals which claim to be…
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Luabot malware used to launch DDoS attacks
A security researcher discovered a Trojan that infects Linux platforms used in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. According to MalwareMustDie, the security researcher responsible for the discovery,…