Cracking the grey market in rent-a-borkers Analysis It’s not often an entirely new and thriving sector of the “digital economy” – one hitherto unmentioned by the popular press – floats to the surface of the lake in broad daylight, waving a tentacle at us.…
View original post here:
Meet DDoSaaS: Distributed Denial of Service-as-a-Service
There’s not much more than fine print between stress testing and DDoS-as-a-service Two Israeli men have been arrested for running a distributed-denial-of service-as-a-service site, after one seemingly claimed to attack the Pentagon.…
Read the original:
Israeli Pentagon DDoSers explain their work, get busted by FBI
A representative of the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine told this to Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council Oleksandr Turchynov, Ukrayinska Pravda reports. “About 15,000 events of information security events, including 170 DDoS attacks, were launched on the government bodies of Ukraine in last six months,” the representative said. According to him, “14 central executive authorities have been already connected to the State Centre for Cyber Protection, and the works to connect another 12 bodies are ongoing.” Source: http://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-crime/2062435-170-ddos-attacks-launched-on-ukrainian-government-bodies-in-six-months.html
More:
About 170 DDoS attacks were launched on the government bodies of Ukraine in last six months.
10Gbps is the new norm, warns Arbor Networks DDoS attacks once again escalated in both size and frequency during the first six months of 2016.…
Continue Reading:
DDoS trends: Bigger, badder but not longer
Traffic to Pirate Bay and others redirected to AirTel banned URL notice An unknown agency in India, possibly telco Airtel, is quietly capitalising on encryption gaps in sites tended by DDOS-buster CloudFlare to intercept and redirect users.…
See the original article here:
CloudFlare probes mystery interception of site traffic across India
LizardStresser makes a messer of Brazil banks, gamer outfits Lizard Squad may be mostly behind bars, but their LizardStresser botnet has spawned more than 100 clones.…
Read More:
Hydra hacker bot spawns internet of things DDoS clones
‘Tiny fraction of the overall count’ however A petition for a second EU referendum in the UK has been hit by suspicions of computer automated ballot stuffing, possibly by politically motivated hackers.…
View article:
Botnet-powered ballot stuffing suspected in 2nd referendum petition
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.…
View article:
Inside the World of the Dark DDoS
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.…
Read More:
Malicious Android apps slip into Google Play, top third party charts
Funny how it always gets targeted at the end of term… Blighty’s government-funded educational network Janet has once again been hit by a cyber attack, with a fresh wave of DDoS attacks launched against the network this morning.…
See the article here:
Academic network Janet clobbered with DDoS attacks – again