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New DemonBot Attack Hadoop Clusters to Performing DDoS Attacks using Powerful Cloud infrastructure servers

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 […]

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DDoS Attacks Hit Games Like Assassin’s Creed and Final Fantasy XIV

Cybercriminals have unleashed a set of DDoS attacks on some prominent gaming companies, including the creators Assassin’s Creed and Final Fantasy XIV. SC Media reports, “A set of DDoS attacks plagued a series of gaming publishers including Final Fantasy XIV’s creator Square Enix and Assassin’s Creed publisher Ubisoft, respectively on the day of the Assassin’s […]

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How to Protect Businesses Against DDoS Attacks

Security, for any business today, is important; we, at HackerCombat, have already reported on the rising costs of IT security on the global level. More and more business today invest heavily in security; they have started realizing that without security, it’s almost impossible for any business to flourish in today’s circumstances. We have arrived at […]

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Here’s Why Kaspersky Says PowerGhost Is The Malware Of The Future

PowerShell is Microsoft’s new method for enabling system and network administrators to work with command lines, providing them with a more advanced scripting system where they can automate routine tasks. If you recall, it played the role of the MS-DOS-era Command Prompt many decades ago. But because anything that can be done in the GUI […]

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Pulse Wave Heavy DDoS Attack to Take Down Multiple Protected Target Networks

A new method of DDOS attack called Pulse wave emerging as a nightmare for DDOS protection solutions. With this method, attackers can bring down systems that previously thought to be protected. Generally, DDoS assault pattern can be characterized as a continuous wave with a gradual ramp-up that drives to a peak and is accompanied by […]

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Russia, Routers, and Why Virtually Everyone is part of the DDoS Problem

Every day, the vast majority of us do our best to not contribute to major global problems. We recycle. We bring our cars in for emissions testing. We stop ourselves from spending $120 on a pair of fake Yeezys and bolstering the counterfeit goods industry. Yes, we are heroes. However, DDoS attack have become a […]

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Dutch Banks are Suffering From Back to Back DDoS Attacks – Online Banking Goes Offline

Dutch Banks ABN Amro and Rabobank targeted by DDOS Attacks back to back on 27, May Sunday night and affecting their online banking system an sever went offline. Cybercriminals launched heavy DDoS Attacks against two banks servers and overwhelming the traffic affected the targeted bank websites. The Aim of DDoS Attacks is when multiple systems overflow the bandwidth […]

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How to protect your Organization From DDOS Attack

What is DDoS Attack? DDoS Attack (Distributed Denial of Service) is a type of attack which originates from multiple computers or devices. The Aim of DDoS Attack is when multiple systems overflow the bandwidth or resources of a targeted system, usually one or more web servers. Such as DDOS Attack is often the result of […]

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Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison For Launching DDoS Attacks on Companies Websites that Declined to Hire Him

A Man From New Mexico sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for DDoS Attacks on various victims including  business competitors , prior employers and public services. A DDoS attack is a malicious attempt to disable or interrupt service to a computer or website, usually by causing large amounts of Internet traffic to be directed to the computer or website Since […]

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Proactive or Reactive, Which is the Better Method for DDoS Defence?

DDoS attacks are now widespread; there happen many DDoS attacks targeting enterprises all the world over. In fact, in the recent past, there have been many massive DDoS attacks and security professionals are always garnering resources to combat such attacks. Though there are many methods to fight DDoS attacks, the best ones are the proactive […]

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Int’l Law Enforcement Shuts Down Major DDoS Cyber Crime Website

The Webstresser cyber crime website, which was the world’s biggest marketplace for selling DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack services, has been shut down. International law enforcement has shut down the website that had sold the DDoS services which were used to target seven leading banks in the UK. The Webstresser website has been linked […]

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Website security firm Sucuri hit by DDoS attacks

This Time Sucuri And Its Customers Have Been Hit By A Series Of Attacks Worldwide. According to information security researchers, the California based website security provider Sucuri has suffered a series of massive DDoS attacks causing service outage in West Europe, South America and parts of Eastern United States. The attacks began on April 12th 2018, when […]

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Amazon, Google & PlayStation suffered DDoS attacks

The vulnerability in Memcached Servers has been exposed to the masses since its proof of concept (PoC) code was recently published online. That exposure would now allow script kiddies to conduct large-scale DDoS attack as if the recent massive DDoS attack on Github and the world’s largest 1.7Tbps attack on an American firm weren’t enough. […]

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How to stop Memcached DDoS attacks

The Memcached vulnerability has been used in record-breaking DDoS attacks. Various proof-of-concept scripts have been released to exploit the vulnerability. Hackers have recently been exploiting a vulnerability in the Memcached protocol that gives them the ability to create record-breaking amplification attacks, a type of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS). These attacks are trivial to implement, said an information […]

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Memcached servers can be used to perform DDoS attacks

Memcached is a distributed system that allows the caching of information in RAM. This software seeks to accelerate the search and access to information. Instead of going to the disk, the possibilities that the information is in the RAM are higher. These types of vulnerabilities are found every day. The difference is that, on this […]

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Hacker jailed for DDoS attacks against Skype and Google

The 21-year-old has been jailed for running a botnet and selling malware in the Dark Web. A 21-year-old has been jailed for two years after being convicted of launching DDoS attacks against high-profile technology firms. The UK’s West Midlands police force said late last week that Alex Bessell, from Liverpool, was behind a string of […]

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Two Hackers Plead Guilty to Creating & Using Mirai Botnet for Massive DDoS Attacks

The U.S. federal officials have arrested two hackers who have pleaded guilty to computer-crimes charges for creating and distributing Mirai botnet that crippled some of the world’s biggest and most popular websites by launching the massive DDoS attacks last year. According to the federal court documents unsealed Tuesday, Paras Jha and Josiah White were indicted […]

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Smart Drawing Pads Used for DDoS Attacks, IoT Fish Tank Used in Casino Hack

Some clever hackers found new ways to use the smart devices surrounding us, according to a report published last week by UK-based cyber-defense company Darktrace. The report, entitled the Darktrace Global Threat Report 2017, contains nine case studies from hacks investigated by Darktrace, among which two detail cyber-incidents caused by IoT devices. Smart drawing pads used […]

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CLDAP Protocol Allows DDoS Attacks with 70x Amplification Factor

In a report released on Tuesday, Akamai says it spotted DDoS attacks leveraging the CLDAP protocol for the first time, and attacks using this protocol have the potential to incur serious damage, based on the opinion of its experts. The CLDAP protocol, defined by RFC 1798 and replaced by RFC 3352, is an alternative to […]

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