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Netgear’s New Gaming Router Offers Protection Against DDoS Attacks

Netgear LAN Switch and Nighthawk Pro Gaming Router (XR500) Offers Reliable Safeguards Against DDoS Attacks. Netgear has introduced a pair of gaming-oriented connectivity products offering a wide range of customization and prioritization options. The first device is the XR500 gaming router, which is basically an updated version of Nighthawk Pro line from Netgear. The second […]

Code for Satori malware posted on Pastebin

The code behind Satori malware which is a variant of infamous Mirai DDoS malware has been published online. According to NewSky Security’s principal researcher, Ankit Anubhav the code was posted on Pastebin over Christmas. Satori Initially, the code pushed Satori which means “awakening” in the Japanese and Brickerbot malware to hijack thousands of (Internet of Things) IoT devices […]

Lizard Squad & PoodleCorp Founder Pleads Guilty to DDoS Attacks

Remember Lizard Squad? Yes, a group of DDoS attackers who caused havoc by attacking tech giants, gaming servers, and small businesses back in 2014. Apparently, the people who created Lizard Squad were also behind creating PoodleCorp group who took things to a whole new level by hacking YouTube accounts of popular celebrities and conducting DDoS against gaming […]

Hackers behind Mirai botnet & DYN DDoS attacks plead guilty

A group of three hackers have pleaded guilty to their role in developing, spreading and using Mirai malware botnet to conduct large-scale Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on some of the Internet’s most popular websites and Dyn DNS, a prominent Domain Name Servers (DNS) service provider. Pleading guilty In a proceeding that took place in US District Court for Alaska on November 28th, Paras […]

Two Hackers Found Guilty For Creating IoT Based Mirai Botnet

The US federal authorities detained two hackers who pleaded guilty to computer crime charges for the creation and distribution of the Mirai botnet network that has paralyzed some of the most important and most popular sites in the world with the launch of massive DDoS attacks last year. According to documents released in federal court, […]

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 […]

Bitfinex (cryptocurrency exchange) is down due to DDoS attacks

Bitfinex (the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange by volume) was forced to shut down its continuous operations after experiencing a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on Tuesday, December 12th. DDoS attack is an attempt to make an online service unavailable by flooding it with traffic from various origins. While Bitcoin’s price goes higher and higher, […]

Top 10 Common Hacking Techniques You Should Know About

Short Bytes: Using simple hacks, a hacker can know about your personal unauthorized information which you might not want to reveal. Knowing about these common hacking techniques like phishing, DDoS, clickjacking etc., could come handy for your personal safety. Unethical hacking can be called an illegal activity to get unauthorized information by modifying a system’s […]

Cyberhitmen hired for sustained DDoS attacks against mans ex-employer

John Kelsey Gammell, a 46-year-old man from Minneapolis, MN has been charged with hiring cyber attackers to target his ex-employer with a year’s worth of “distributed denial of service” (DDoS) attacks in July 2015 to September 2016. The targeted business, a point-of-sale system repair company Washburn Computer Group (WCG) was where Gammell worked. According to US federal prosecutors, Gammell hired three people […]

Comcast Internet service crippled; affecting users across US

If you are using Comcast’s Internet service and facing issues with your connection then you are not alone, there are millions of people around the United States suffering Internet outage due to some technical issue with the company’s servers. According to DownDetector, a service that keeps track of online platforms facing connectivity issues, over 8,000 reports citing […]

Reaper malware outshines Mirai; hits millions of IoT devices worldwide

Last year the world was startled when Mirai malware managed to infect a whopping 500,000 IoT devices and formed a massive army of botnets and then disrupted internet service in the US and Europe through launching DDoS attacks. The haunting memories are brought back to our attention with the emergence of malware that is trying […]

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DDoS attacks on Sweden’ Transport Agencies Delay Train Service

The official website of Transportstyrelsen, Sweden’s Transport Agency (STA) came under a series of DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks on Thursday morning forcing it to go offline. The attack on Transportstyrelsen came a day after the IT systems of Sweden’s Transport Administration (Trafikverket), which monitors railway traffic, was attacked by hackers leading to delays in trains schedule. “I can confirm that in the morning we […]

The Pirate Bay Caught Secretly Running Cryptocurrency Miner Again

In September 2017, we reported that The Pirate Bay (TPB) was running a cryptocurrency miner provided by CoinHive. The code used visitor’s CPU bandwidth to generate Monero digital coins without informing them or allowing them to Opt-In or Opt-Out. In reply, TPB claimed, “the miner is being tested for a short period (~24 hours) as a new way to generate revenue.” Another […]

Attacker demands ransom after series of DDoS attacks on Poker site

On the evening of September 1st, 2017, an unknown attacker conducted a series of massive DDoS attacks on the servers of America’s Cardroom and its Winning Poker Network (WPN) forcing its services including Online Super Series (OSS) Cub3d to go offline. The site confirmed the attack in a Tweet at 2:12 am revealing that “We are currently experiencing a DDOS attack, […]

DailyStormer comes back with Albanian domain; gets booted off

DailyStormer, the neo-nazi and racist website is having a difficult time finding domain on the regular web. For the third time in a month, the website has been booted off from the web due to its indecent and racist content. In the latest, DailyStormer made a comeback through the Albanian domain provider (dailystormer.al) about three days ago, but […]

Hacker Charged for Crashing Businesses Using Millions of Mirai botnet

Daniel ‘BestBuy’ Kaye Extradited to the UK— Hacker Charged for Crashing Cyber Infrastructure of British and German Organizations using Millions of Mirai botnets. Daniel Kaye who used nicknames “BestBuy and Popopret” was accused of carrying out a series of cyber-attacks against high-profile banks in the UK including Lloyds, Bank of Scotland and Barclays using the mighty […]

Insanely Popular White Supremacist Website Stormfront Booted Off

After DailyStormer, another Leading White-Supremacist Website Stormfront Taken Down For Good. Believe it or not, the oldest and insanely popular of all white supremacist websites Stormfront has gone offline since Friday, and its domain status is Under Hold. The site was taken down but the site’s host Network Solutions, which was hosting it since 1995. […]

Dangerous WireX Android DDoS Botnet Killed by Security Giants

IT Security Vendors Successfully neutralized Deadly WireX Android Botnet through Collaboration – Google Removes Malicious Infected Apps from Play Store. Attacks like those launched through Mirai botnet in 2016 or WannaCry and NotPetya in 2017 had a global impact. Unsurprisingly, a whopping number of organizations were affected, and security experts were criticized left, right and center. […]

DailyStormer’ new site booted off after hosting provider gets DDoSed

It looks like there is no place for DailyStormer on the regular web whatsoever. On August 24th (Thursday), DreamHost, a Los Angeles-based web hosting provider and domain name registrar suffered a series of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks affecting its servers causing connectivity issues. The attack affected company’s customer support, web and email services forcing a number of websites to […]