The threat of DDoS (Denial-of-Service) attacks that send massive processing demands from multiple Internet-connected devices (be it a PC, a smartphone, a tablet or an IoT) to the target server and bring the system down has grown tremendously in the past decade. It is possible that an attack may shut down a network of one […]
Xerxes dos tool enhanced with many features for stress testing. FeaturesXerxes has many features, some of these features are: TLS Support HTTP header randomization Useragent randomization Multiprocessing support Multiple Attack vectors etc… Not only that but also we are aggressively developing it and adding a lot more features and functionalities. Compile sudo apt-get -y install […]
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 […]
Police agencies found the hacker after he used the IP of his address to access his platforms According to network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security, a U.S. citizen has pleaded guilty to administering eight different online platforms that provided stresser services to deploy Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks […]
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 […]
cybersecurity #infosec #IIS #MicrosoftSystem administrators are recommended to update as soon as possible According to network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Instiute of Cyber Security, the Microsoft Security Incident Response Center launched a security alert for a denial-of-service (DoS) condition at Internet Information Services (IIS), the suite of services for the Windows […]
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 […]
First closing in on operators, now on users, as the hunt continues and law enforcement in many countries is about to swoop down on people who bought DDoS attacks on WebStresser
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, […]
If you were a buyer of any online DDoS-for-hire service, you might be in trouble. After taking down and arresting the operators of the world’s biggest DDoS-for-hire service last year, the authorities are now in hunt for customers who bought the service that helped cyber criminals launch millions of attacks against several banks, government institutions, […]
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 […]
Ukrainian Police have this week busted out two separate groups of hackers involved in carrying out DDoS attacks against news agencies and stealing money from Ukrainian citizens, respectively. According to the authorities, the four suspected hackers they arrested last week, all aged from 26 to 30 years, stole more than 5 million Hryvnia (around 178,380 […]
A court in London has sentenced a British and Israeli cyber criminal Daniel Kaye aka “BestBuy and Popopret” to two years and eight months in prison for conducting large scale DDoS attacks on Lonestar Cell MTN disrupting country’s Internet and causing tens of millions of dollars in damages. Kaye (30) was charged for DDoS attacks against British and German […]
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 […]
He conducted those DDoS attacks for #OpJustina back in 2014. In April 2014, Martin Gottesfeld (34) from Massachusetts claimed his affiliation with the online hacking group Anonymous and conducted a series of massive DDoS attacks (distributed denial-of-service) on Boston Children’s Hospital and the Wayside Youth Family Support. Gottesfeld further maintained that the DDoS attacks were against hospital’s alleged bad treatment […]
A simple DDoS attack could land you in jail for 10 years or even more. A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to over 10 years in prison for launching DDoS attacks against the computer network of two healthcare organizations in 2014 to protest the treatment of a teenager at the centers. Beyond serving 121 months […]
Earlier, the US Department of Justice announced today that the FBI had confiscated the domains of 15 DDoS For Hire websites for compensation and accused three people of using some of these services. Subscription DDoS or “Booter” or “Stresser” services provide rental access to the network of infected devices, which can then be used by […]
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, […]