Proof-of-work turned to nefarious purposes, like taking down a Census A curious proof-of-work project built on cryptocurrency has emerged that offers a means to prove participation in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.…
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Meet DDoSCoin, the cryptocurrency that pays when you p0wn
After several days of intense work, Switzerland-based end-to-end encrypted e-mail provider ProtonMail has largely mitigated the DDoS attacks that made it unavailable for hours on end in the last week.
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ProtonMail restores services after epic DDoS attacks
A dropper component sent to the Akamai researchers led them to the discovery of a spamming botnet that consists of at least 83,000 compromised systems. The botnet is multi-layered, decentralized, a…
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Researchers map out hard-to-kill, multi-layered spam botnet
Akamai has observed three new reflection DDoS attacks in recent months: NetBIOS name server reflection, RPC portmap reflection, and Sentinel reflection. In a reflection DDoS attack, also called a D…
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New DDoS attacks misuse NetBIOS name server, RPC portmap, and Sentinel licensing servers
Someone has been compromising MySQL servers around the world and using them to mount DDoS attacks. The latest targets of these attacks are an (unnamed) US hosting provider and a Chinese IP address. …
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Attackers are turning MySQL servers into DDoS bots
There's been a significant change in the nature of DDoS attacks that is leaving businesses exposed to data breaches and malware. Recent research from Neustar shines a light on the changing tactics …
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The rise of repeated "low and slow" DDoS attacks
More than half of IT security professionals (52 percent) said loss of customer trust and confidence were the most damaging consequences of DDoS attacks for their businesses, according to a survey cond…
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The most damaging ramifications of DDoS attacks
Apple has released an update for its XProtect anti-malware system which makes it detect three different version of the iWorm OS backdoor malware discovered last week by AV specialists from Dr. Web. …
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Apple updates XProtect to kill iWorm botnet threat
New malware targeting Mac machines, opening backdoors on them and roping them into a botnet currently numbering around 17,000 zombies has been spotted and analyzed by malware researchers of Russian AV…
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New OS X backdoor malware roping Macs into botnet
The beginning of 2014 saw 1.5 times the number of attacks over 20GB/sec, compared to the rest of 2013, according to new stats released by Arbor Networks today. At the Infosecurity Europe 2014, t…
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Spike in DDoS attack size driven by NTP misuse