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Inside the World of the Dark DDoS

This isn’t your grandma’s DDoS Today’s distributed denial of service attacks are different than the kinds that we saw at the dawn of the millennium when the threat emerged. They’re becoming more nuanced, and subtle – and they could result in a lot more than a downed web server.…

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Inside the World of the Dark DDoS

DDOS-as-a-service offered for just five dollars

Freelancer-finding site Fiverr boots out sellers, but DDOS prices are plunging everywhere Freelancer-finding site Fiverr has booted out users offering distributed denial of service attack for-hire groups for as low as US$5.…

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DDOS-as-a-service offered for just five dollars

Malicious Android apps slip into Google Play, top third party charts

Enlist phones in ad fraud, premium SMS, loser DDoS Malicious Android applications have bypassed Google’s Play store security checks to enslave infected devices into distributed denial of service attack, advertising fraud, and spam botnets.…

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A million machines enslaved by MitM Google ad fraud botnet

Better the devil you know as malware replaces Alphabet ads with less sanitary banners About a million computers have been enslaved into a newly-identified botnet that is plundering Google advertising revenues, a security trio says.…

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A million machines enslaved by MitM Google ad fraud botnet

Website extortionists rake in over $100,000 without lifting a finger

‘Armada Collective’ threatens to carry out DDoS attacks, never actually attacks Reputation is everything in business: it appears a bunch of canny scammers have stolen the identity of a hacking squad to make some serious bank.…

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Website extortionists rake in over $100,000 without lifting a finger

Ubuntu plugs code exec, DoS Linux kernel holes

This is kind of a big deal because the mess is in 14.04 LTS, expiry date 2019 Ubuntu has patched four Linux kernel vulnerabilities that allowed for arbitrary code execution and denial of service attacjs.…

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Ubuntu plugs code exec, DoS Linux kernel holes

DNS root server attack was not aimed at root servers – infosec bods

Target appears to have been two Chinese domain names The internet’s root servers were not the target of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in December which for a short time took out four of the 13 pillars of the global network.…

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DNS root server attack was not aimed at root servers – infosec bods

US charges Iranians with hacking into an NY dam, blasting banks offline

Alleged cyber-crims unleashed 140Gbps of duff packets at networks The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged seven Iranian hackers over a string of high-profile distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against banks.…

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US charges Iranians with hacking into an NY dam, blasting banks offline

DDoS attacks up 149 percent as brassy booter kids make bank

Akamai report finds surge in weighty packets. The number of distributed denial of service attacks rose 149 percent in dying months of 2015 according to Akamai’s networking wonks.…

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