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Short Bytes: There has been an increase in the number of DDoS attacks on educational institutes. These attacks are a realization of students’ intentions to change their grades or cause harm to the school network. They are using the dark web to perform such attacks. Dark Web is that part of the internet that is hidden […]
DNSSEC is the best tool to protect against DNS hijacking and DNS cache poisoning but can be hijacked for DDoS attacks. Network security firm Neustar says that around 80 percent of DNSSEC servers have been improperly configured, and attackers can hijack them to carry out above-average reflection DDoS attacks DNSSEC is an extension of the […]
Trojan targets CMS platforms running on Linux servers. What initially looked like a string of Drupal sites infected with ransomware (that didn’t work properly) now looks like a professional cybercrime operation that relies on a self-propagating Linux trojan to create a botnet with various capabilities. Last May, in a Softpedia exclusive, Stu Gorton, CEO and Co-Founder […]
Softpedia spoke with Rebirth, co-founder of BinarySec. The Anonymous #OpISIS campaign seemed at one point to have slowly died out after the Charlie Hebdo, Paris, and Belgium attacks, but i is once again in the news following the gruesome attacks in Istanbul, Baghdad, Nice, Würzburg, and yesterday in Munich. Unknown to many is that this Anonymous […]
Library of Congress and Copyright Office also affected. The US Congress has just recovered after a three-day-long DDoS attack that has crippled its online portal congress.gov, along with adjacent sites such as the US Library of Congress (loc.gov), and the US Copyright Office (coypright.gov). The attack started on Sunday evening, July 17, and had initially targeted […]
Lizard Squad’s tool becomes very popular thanks to the millions of unsecured IoT devices ready for the taking. Security experts from Arbor Networks have uncovered over 100 botnets that are controlled using various variations of LizardStresser, the DDoS stresser created by the original Lizard Squad members. While most of Lizard Squad’s first members are in […]
All Necurs activity stopped on June 1, down ever since. The Necurs botnet, the largest malware distribution botnet known today, seems to be facing some technical problems, and the direct consequence of this downtime is a huge dip in Dridex and Locky distribution numbers. Necurs is the collective network of computers infected with the Necurs rootkit. […]
Attack on NS1 sends 50 million to 60 million lookup packets per second. Unknown attackers have been directing an ever-changing army of bots in a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against NS1, a major DNS and traffic management provider, for over a week. While the company has essentially shunted off much of the attack traffic, […]
DDOS attacks are a fact of life these days, it would seem. People were having trouble logging into Blizzard games such as Diablo 3 and World of Warcraft last night, as a result of a DDOS attack on the company’s servers that notorious DDoS group Lizard Squad has taken credit for. The company says that […]
DDoS attacks can have an amplification factor of 26.5. An independent security researcher that goes by the name of MalwareTech has discovered a way in which he could abuse the ZeroAccess malware’s botnet to launch reflection DDoS attacks with an above-average amplification factor. ZeroAccess is a trojan that infects Windows computers and then starts communication with […]
Malware was infecting machines, adding them to its botnet.Similar-looking malware targeting both Linux and Windows computers has been linked to a DDoSing toolkit sold by Chinese hackers via the ddos[.]tf service, Malware Must Die! reports. The malware, codenamed Linux/DDOSTF (or Linux/MrBlack) targets mainly Linux machines running Elasticsearch servers, but also attacks and infects Windows systems, […]
he hacker did it “for the lulz,” no other reason.Anonymous have just released data online belonging to the European Space Agency (ESA). The group justified the hack as “for the LulZ.” While most of the time the group takes up causes and carries out DDoS attacks, defaces websites, or breaches databases in behalf of these […]
Meet Jeff Becker and his creation: git.psi.i2p. Lots of people seek anonymity these days, for various reasons, may it be because of abusive governments, because of a personal preference, or because they are in the middle of not-so-legal operations. For these type of people Tor, and most recently I2P, have been some of their best friends. […]
nternet core infrastructure hit in rare cyber-attack.Unknown parties carried out a large-scale DDoS attack on the Internet’s DNS root servers, causing slight timeouts for four nodes, more exactly on the B, C, G, and H servers, RootOps reports. There were two different attacks, one launched on November 30 that lasted 160 minutes (from 06:50 to […]
The internet’s root servers came under a concerted distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack last week that effectively knocked three of the 13 critical pillars of the internet offline for several hours. The attack came just days before the Janet academic network received a similar DDoS attack. According to a first analysis of the root […]
The world’s most widely proactive malware group Dorkbot and all of its associated Botnets have been disrupted. This disruption was made possible by the combined efforts of international law enforcement agencies with the support of prominent security and technology companies including Microsoft. According to Wil van Gemert, the Europol deputy director of operations who was […]
Short Bytes: DDoS attacks are targeting the networks and websites all over the world relentlessly. In the past three mnths, there has been more than 100% rise in the DDoS attacks and Linux-powered machines are becoming a bigger player. Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are one of the most popular cyberthreats faced by the […]
Cyber-security vendors are revealing their statistics for the third quarter (Q3) of 2015, and a popular topic is DDoS attacks, a tactic widely used to mask more serious intrusions, to extort companies, or to annoy or sabotage competitors. We have aggregated for you data from two different DDoS reports that came fromKaspersky Lab’s DDoS Intelligence […]
The dark web is well known as a space where anything can be bought or sold: guns, drugs, stolen data, and extreme pornography are all relatively easy to get hold of with a few clicks of a mouse. But anonymity networks such as Tor, as well as the hidden sites they facilitate, can also act […]
UltraDNS, a web content delivery service, went down Thursday afternoon, taking with it a number of popular websites, including Netflix and Expedia. The cause of the 90-minute failure was an internal issue in a server on the East Coast and was not the result of an attack by hackers, said Lara Wyss, an UltraDNS spokeswoman. […]
A group of hackers that goes under the name of DD4BC, first spotted in September 2014, has recently intensified its activity, launching over 141 DDOS attacks in the past year. The group, identified and analyzed by Akamai’s Prolexic Security Engineering and Response Team (PLXsert), has been very busy in the past few months, launching numerous […]