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Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks are the antecedent to DDoS attacks. Earlier, DoS attacks were the main source to disrupt computer systems on a network. It originates from a single machine and may look very simple; a basic ping flood attack can be accomplished By sending ICMP (ping) requests to a targeted server, its process and respond […]
Facebook, which has suffered the biggest ever outage in its history, is struggling to deal with it. The partial outage that affected some users of Facebook and other platforms owned by Facebook, including Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram, seems to be abating. CNN.com reports that Facebook had to use the services of its rival Twitter […]
An Operator of DDoS-as-a Service (Illegal Booter Services) pleads guilty in North Carolina count for his massive operations of DDoS attack against 1.3 million targets. Sergiy P. Usatyuk, illegal DDoS service operator from Orland Park arrested by FBI for supporting this illegal services with his co-conspirator to develop, control and operate a number of booter […]
When Did UPnP and SSDP Became Mainstream? Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) was considered revolutionary when it was introduced to Windows Millennium Edition nineteen years ago, in 2000. It was hyped with the promise of automatic detection of ‘smart’ appliances in the home and in the office using a Windows PC. It is the pre-IoT […]
DDoS attacks are launched aiming to exhaust the resources of network, application or service so that the legitimate users unable to access the resource. Imperva mitigated a high-intensity DDoS attack for one of their customers which crossed 500 million packets per second (Mpps) mark which 4 times higher than the DDo attack on Github happened last […]
The Operation Power OFF has taken down the largest illegal market place offering DDoS-for-hire service Webstresser[.]org last April. Authorities collected 151 000 registered users information for the services. After the services have been taken down, now the authorities tracking down the users enrolled for the DDoS-for-hire service. Coordinated by Europol along with J-CAT, Dutch police, […]
Internet service providers hit with a new stealthy volumetric attack by injecting the malicious traffic with the legitimate traffic to evade detection. Attackers carry out an advanced reconnaissance method to covertly gathers information about mission-critical IP address and inject pieces of attack traffic with the legitimate traffic to evade detection. Nexusguard called this stealthy attack […]
Universities and colleges are among the risk group that is mostly affected by the frequent DDOS attacks according to the latest research. For example, in the UK alone, more than 200 universities were hit by 850 DDOS attacks in 2018. This raises a major concern about the security of universities and colleges worldwide. The attackers […]
Six years jail time, that may become the penalty awaiting the 6 young hackers, two who were allegedly responsible for DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against Ukraine government and education sectors, most severely hit was Mariupol City while the rest were involved with the online heist. DDoS is a type of network attack with […]
Two young hackers arrested for launching DDoS attacks on several critical Ukraine sources including the city of Mariupol and several other educational institutions. The DDoS attacks aims in exhausting the resource of a network, application or service that leads an organization to face the various technical impacts. Ukraine police arrested two young hackers 21- and […]
U.S citizen sentenced 10 years in prison for Massive DDOS attacks against 2 hospitals on U.S Boston Children’s Hospital and Wayside Youth and Family Support Network in 2014. Martin Gottesfeld, 32, convicted for launching massive DDoS attacks and the attack was launched more than a week that caused the facility to spend $18,000. He was […]
We could define DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks as the exclusive appropriation of a resource or service with the intention of avoiding any third party access. Also included in this definition are the attacks destined to collapse a resource or system with the intention of destroying the service or resource. DoS attacks are born […]
Law enforcement has launched pre-emptive strikes on DDoS services keeping in mind the Christmas holiday season. Reports say that law enforcement from different countries has shut down DDoS booters in a bid to prevent the usual DDoS attacks targeting gaming services that happen annually during the Christmas holidays. “Law enforcement from the US, the UK, […]
DDoS-for-hire services seized by authorities in the United States and seized 15 Internet domains associated with the service. These sites afford “booter” or “stresser” services that allowed users to launch a powerful DDoS attack against the targeted websites and makes inaccessible over the internet. According to DOJ press release, “Booter services such as those named […]
Anti DDoS service companies have become a surprise sunshine industry for at least the last five years. This business, which made Cloudflare a household name enables websites to be more resilient when facing abnormal levels of traffic. Companies that could have experienced downtime due to being targeted by DDoS were saved and are still being […]
Bad news for those who use Hadoop for data analytics…there’s a new botnet out there that’s targeting Hadoop clusters seeking to perform DDoS attacks. (Hadoop, which is an open source distributed processing framework, allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming models). The new, unsophisticated Linux-based botnet […]
The trend of Cybercrime-as-a-Service continues to evolve in dark web forums, a new DDoS-for-Hire service spotted by FortiGuard Labs team that allows a novice attackers to launch DDoS attacks on any site anonymously and take the site offline. The DDoS-for-hire dubbed “0x-booter” was first appeared on October 17, 2018, the service allows anyone to sign […]
New Botnet called DemonBot targeting Hadoop Clusters in order to perform DDOS attack using powerful cloud infrastructure. Hadoop is an open source distributed processing framework that manages storage and data processing for big data applications running in clustered systems. Unlike Mirai based Botnet, DemonBot botnet spreading via centralized server and its rapidly exploiting the various […]
DDoS (Denial of Service Attack) malware have been wreaking havoc to online services on a fairly regular basis these days. Since last month, some Apache Hadoop servers have been observed of being infected by a DDoS botnet, DemonBot. The Botnet’s command and control servers are highly active and still online at the time of this […]
Newly Discovered Chalubo Botnet that compromises the internet facing SSH servers on Linux-based systems, IOT Devices and uses it for Distributed denial-of-service attack. Malware author using various evasion technique and more common windows malware principals to prevent from detection tools and also it adopted the anti analyzing technique to make it analyzing difficult. Researchers believe that […]
The DDoS Protection Bootcamp is the First-Ever Free online Training Portal for IT security and network ops professionals to improve their DDoS protection skills. A distributed DoS attack aims to exhaust the resources of a network, application or service so that genuine users cannot gain access and the DDoS is the one when an attacker […]