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Cryptocurrencies rely on the blockchain, a decentralized ledger that records all transactions ever made within it. The blockchain network consists of multiple nodes that maintain it. To gain control over the network and tamper with transaction data a hacker should compromise most of the nodes, which is practically impossible. So, once blockchain is as safe […]
This is the first publicly-disclosed vulnerability in a serverless platform. Experts at IBM (The International Business Machines Corporation) have patched a critical vulnerability in its Cloud Functions which if exploited could allow remote malicious hackers to replace company’s serverless code with their own. Once the changes took effect, hackers could have extracted sensitive customer data including […]
In computing, load balancing improves the distribution of workloads across multiple computing resources, such as computers, a computer cluster, network links, central processing units, or disk drives. Load balancing differs from channel bonding in that load balancing divides traffic between network interfaces on a network socket (OSI model layer 4) basis, while channel bonding implies […]
France based video game publisher Ubisoft suffered a series of massive DDoS attacks (distributed denial-of-service). As a result, several Ubisoft gaming servers including Ghost Recon Wildlands, For Honor and Far Cry 5 were facing connectivity issues. The DDoS attacks began on Tuesday, July 17th when Ubisoft used its customer support Twitter handle to confirm the outage and that […]
The IT security researchers at deep learning cybersecurity firm Deep Instinct have discovered a sophisticated malware in the wild targeting Microsoft’s Windows-based computers. Adding devices to Botnet The malware works in such a way that upon infecting, it allows hackers to take over the device and make it part of a botnet to carry out different […]
It is a fact that The Pirate Bay has been suffering increasing service disruption since it moved from the SE domain to Org. In the last couple of months, the torrenting giant has gone offline over five times without informing its users what is going on. On June 20th, 2018, The Pirate Bay domain went […]
Randall Charles Tucker 23 from Arizona, who goes by the online handle of “Bitcoin Baron” has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for conducting DDoS attacks (distributed denial of service) on the computer networks of the City of Madison, Wisconsin. The sentence was announced on Monday, June 18th, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes of […]
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 […]
John Kelsey Gammell, a 46-year-old from New Mexico has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for conducting sustained DDoS attacks (distributed denial of service) against his ex-employer Washburn Computer Group, a point-of-sale system repair company. Gammell was arrested and charged in November 2017 with hiring cyber attackers to perform DDoS attacks on the company’s cyberinfrastructure between July 2015 to September 2016 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Another day, another DDoS attack causing passengers a great deal of trouble. The largest train operating company in Danmark “Danske Statsbaner” (DSB or Danish State Railways) suffered a massive DDoS attack (distributed denial-of-service) on Sunday causing service disruption across the country. The DDoS attack was quite powerful as it halted train operations and blocked travelers from […]
A Romanian cybercriminal has been sentenced to one year in US federal prison for conducting DDoS attacks on Blizzard’s World of Warcraft‘s European servers back in 2010. The 38-year-old Calin Mateias from Bucharest pleaded guilty in February this year to one count of intentional damage to a protected computer. Since pleading guilty, Mateias has paid $30,000 in restitution to Blizzard Entertainment. He was sentenced by United […]
Last year in September Americas Cardroom (ACR), a popular online poker site and its Winning Poker Network (WPN) suffered a series of massive DDoS attacks forcing the company to pause all of its ongoing tournaments – In that attack, unknown attackers demanded a ransom from the company in order to stop attacking their servers Now, […]
Bezop, a cryptocurrency startup exposed highly personal details of more than 25,000 of its investors online which were publicly accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. The platform which is supported by John McAfee left the personal details exposed due to an unprotected MongoDB database. The exposed data included full names, email addresses, physical addresses, wallet information, […]
In a large-scale joint operation called “Operation Power Off”, the Dutch Police and the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency alongside with Europol and several other law enforcement authorities have arrested the administrators of Webstresser, a cybercrime platform providing DDoS-for-hire service while its domain Webstresser.org has been seized. The arrested administrators were based in Canada, Croatia, Serbia, and […]
Administrators of DDoS-for-hire Service were arrested as a result of a joint Operation Power OFF led by the Dutch police, and UK’s National Crime Agency along with the support of Europol and other law enforcement agencies. The 6 administrators behind DDoS-for-hire website were located in the United Kingdom, Croatia, Canada, and Serbia. Top users of […]
Another day, another series of DDoS attacks – This time Sucuri and its customers have been hit by a series of attacks worldwide. [squaread][/squaread] The California based website security provider Sucuri has suffered a series of massive DDoS attacks (distributed denial-of-service) causing service outage in West Europe, South America and parts of Eastern United States. The […]
Cloudflare introduces Spectrum to protect any services that connected to the Internet. Spectrum works in the same way as the Cloudflare and it extends Cloudflare to 65,533 more Ports. This means with the spectrum you can extend the Cloudflare’s DDoS, TLS, and IP Firewall protection beyond the webservers to protect other TCP based services such as […]
You are not alone – The Pirate Bay has been down for last seven hours. It is just another day with just another disappointing news for The Pirate Bay fans. Yes, you are not alone, the torrent search and downloading giant is down for everyone. Those visiting The Pirate Bay right now can see “Error 522 […]
With this tool you can block HTTP Flood Attacks and analyze them with a honeypot. THE TOOL SEND YOU AN ADVERTISING EMAIL AFTER DETECT A DDOS ATTACK! First start the honeypot server (tools/analyze/logger.py). Then start the detector (tools/detector/detector.sh) in another window. If an attacker attack your server in preconfigured port (80), the detector will redirect […]