DDoS

Roughly 500,000 Ubiquiti devices may be affected by flaw already exploited in the wild

Security experts identified nearly 500,000 Ubiquit devices that may be affected by a vulnerability that has already been exploited in…

6 years ago

Imperva mitigated DDoS attack generated 500 Million Packets per Second, the largest ever

Imperva mitigated a SYN flood DDoS attack against one of its clients that exceeded 500 million packets per second, this…

6 years ago

Law enforcement worldwide hunting users of DDoS-for-Hire services

Europol and law enforcement agencies worldwide are investigating DDoS-for-hire services and hunting users that paid them to carry out cyber…

6 years ago

British hacker sentenced to jail for attack on Liberian Telecoms firms

The British hacker Daniel Kaye has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for the cyberattack on Liberian telecom firms. The British…

6 years ago

The author of the Mirai botnet gets six months of house arrest

Paras Jha (22), the author of the Mirai botnet has been sentenced to six months of house arrest and ordered…

6 years ago

A few dollars to bring down sites with new Bushido-based DDoS-for-hire service

Security researchers at FortiGuard Labs have discovered a new DDoS-for-hire service called “0x-booter" built with leaked code that implements an easy to use…

6 years ago

Chalubo, a new IoT botnet emerges in the threat landscape

Security experts from Sophos Labs have spotted a new piece of IoT malware tracked as Chalubo that is attempting to recruit devices…

6 years ago

Brazil expert discovers Oracle flaw that allows massive DDoS attacks

Oracle has just released a security update to prevent 2.3 million servers running the RPCBIND service from being used in…

6 years ago

Police arrested Apophis Squad member responsible for ProtonMail DDoS attack

UK NCA arrested a member of the Apophis Squad hacker group that launched distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against many organizations, including ProtonMail.…

6 years ago

Fileless PowerGhost cryptocurrency miner leverages EternalBlue exploit to spread

Security experts from Kaspersky Lab have spotted a new cryptocurrency miner dubbed PowerGhost that can spread leveraging a fileless infection technique. The…

6 years ago

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