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Authorities have seized and shut down 15 popular DDoS-for-hire websites used by cybercriminals for revenge and DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks on private individuals as well as businesses including online gaming giants, email service providers and hosting sites. The operation against the DDoS-for-hire websites was a result of joint cooperation between the FBI ‘Federal Bureau of […]
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 […]
Distributed denial of service attack is a popular attack used to target any website to make them down. DDOS is an malicious attempt in which target server is flooded with the internet traffic. DDOS normally sends the large no. of request to the target website to slow down, explain ethical hacking experts. There have been […]
The trojan also installs a rootkit and another malware variant that can lead to denial-of-service conditions Perhaps the malware variants that affect Linux users are not as common as threats to Windows users, but Linux malware becomes increasingly functional and complex, consider digital forensics specialists in the International Institute of Cyber Security. The most recent […]
When news broke about Cambridge Analytica, the Internet went into a frenzy: “How could Facebook do this!” “Facebook should be made accountable!” Besides the fact that I think the whole Cambridge Analytica issue was blown out of proportion, I believe bigger issue is the fact that very few people are willing to be responsible for their […]
Download the app and toggle on it to generate a VPN profile that will automatically reroute the DNS traffic using the 1.1.1.1 DNS servers. On April 1, 2018, Cloudflare and APNIC launched the 1.1.1.1 public DNS service to speed up the searching process for web addresses faster and more secure. It is basically a DNS […]
This is the third in a series of blog posts “on all things Bot” – The first two posts are available here and here. From bad to good and looking towards the future, Bots remain an information security issue which has the potential to impact all commercial and recreational online activity. This series will explore […]
Austin Thompson, a 23-year-old man from Utah has pleaded guilty to conducting DDoS attacks on gaming giants between 2013 to 2014. Among his targets were companies like EA Origin, Sony’s PlayStation Network, Steam, Microsoft’s Xbox, Battle.net, and League of Legends, etc. Thompson who used the Twitter handle of DerpTrolling to announce attacks on his victims pleaded guilty this […]
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 […]
An open-source hosting panel software provider, Vesta Control Panel (VestaCP), has admitted that the company became a victim of a supply chain attack. In an announcement made by VestaCP on its forum, it was revealed that the hacker managed to contaminate the source code of its project with DDoS malware. The malware was capable of […]
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 […]
This is the second in a series of blog posts “on all things Bot.” From bad to good and looking towards the future, Bots remain an information security issue which has the potential to impact all commercial and recreational online activity. This series will explore the security and business ramifications of the modern internet where […]
This is the first in a series of blog posts “on all things Bot.” From bad to good and looking towards the future, Bots remain an information security issue which has the potential to impact all commercial and recreational online activity. This series will explore the security and business ramifications of the modern internet where […]
DDoS and Malware attacks are nowadays frequently launching by cybercriminals and the cloud service are also targeting to compromise the exfiltrate the sensitive data. Since we are storing very important and sensitive files in the cloud, we have to make sure the files will be stored completely in the encrypted format. And the cloud service providers are […]
It is not happening on Dark Web but Instagram. Instagram has become much more than a platform to share your traveling, culinary, or fitness-related experiences, but a thriving portal for selling stolen accounts. Reportedly, hackers are using Instagram to sell access to botnets as well as stolen user accounts from Spotify, Fortnite and other services. […]
The DNS or Domain Name System is one of the most necessary components for the internet functionality. Most often, the internet businesses are negligent to the security of their digital identity that is the DNS. This poor security of DNS makes it vulnerable to many cyber attacks which are beneficial for the attackers. Fortunately, an […]
Mirai has been known as one of the most powerful botnets comprised of millions of hacked Internet of Things (IoT) devices including routers, digital video recorders (DVRs) and security cameras. Mirai was also used by hackers to carry out one of the largest DDoS attacks on the servers of DynDNS which ultimately disrupted high profile websites like […]
ProtonMail, a Swiss-based end-to-end email encryption service, has announced the name of one of the attackers involved in the DDoS attack against the company earlier this year. Due to the attack, the email service of ProtonMail stopped responding for a minute several times despite having adequate mitigation measures in place. The identified hacker, a teenager […]
A heavy DDoS Attack hit the Bank of Spain’s Website which is started on last Sunday which leads to disturbing the service temporarily. Bank of Spain is one of the largest and oldest banks in Span Established in Madrid in 1782 and an attack targeting the direct bank website and taken down. DDoS attack main aims to […]
The official website of Banco de España (Bank of Spain), which is the central bank of the country, was hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Sunday. The attack potentially disrupted the website’s operations and it became inaccessible at the beginning of the week. The attack, reportedly, has been claimed by the […]