Pierluigi Paganini
September 29, 2015
Security experts at CloudFlare observed a major DDoS attack against one of their customers that appeared to leverage a mobile ad network. CloudFlare firms revealed that one of its customers was recently hit by aĀ distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack thatĀ appeared to leverage a mobile ad network and malicious JavaScript. The experts explained that the DDoS attack […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 27, 2014
A group of hackers dubbed DERP has created a super tool to coordinate multi protocol DDoS reflection attacks as explained by Melbourne-based Micron21 firm. For the first time ever a hacking group coordinated a range of different DDoS reflection attacks against a data center of theĀ firm Melbourne-based Micron21,Ā the attack occurred on August 2nd. The experts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 23, 2014
Largest DDoS attack hit PopVote, Hong Kong Democracy voting website. Ā Experts at CloudFlare observed a three hundred gigabits per second DDoS attack. The largest ever and most severeĀ Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attackĀ in the history has recently hit the online democracy poll promoting opinion on the upcoming Hong Kong elections. The system under attack is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 12, 2014
Largest Ever 400Gbps Distributed Denial of Service NTP Amplification attack hits Europe servers of anti-DDoS protection firm Cloudfare. Despite Ā the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a type of offensive easy to arrange, it is a very insidious threat for web services. A recent analysis revealed that theĀ Distributed Denial of ServiceĀ attackĀ are increasing in magnitude […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2013
The news is circulating and this morning many colleagues called me to have more details on the event ā¦ whatās happening to the internet? All seems to be originated from a single DDoS attack against a unique company, but the event has reached unimaginable proportions with implications for theĀ global network, in particular dragging down Internet […]
