Fantasy sports outfit looks to hunt down group that bombarded its site A US sports gaming company is asking permission to unmask 10 people it believes were behind a massive DDoS attack on its website earlier this month.…
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DraftKings rides to court, asks to unmask 10 DDoS suspects
For the past three quarters, there has been a doubling in the number of DDoS attacks year over year, according to Akamai. And while attackers favored less powerful but longer duration attacks this qua…
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The unstoppable rise of DDoS attacks
DDoS attacks are beginning to resemble advanced persistent threats, evidenced by long durations, repetition and changing attack vectors aimed at evading simple, signature-based defense systems, accord…
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DDoS attacks now resemble APTs
Sentence will be passed in January next year A 17 year-old Londoner has pleaded guilty to a series of denial-of-service attacks against internet exchanges and the Spamhaus anti-spam service last year.…
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London teen pleads guilty to Spamhaus DDoS
Beware traffic from hacked Vietnam, India and Indonesia fondleslabs Vietnam, India and Indonesia will be the distributed denial of service volcanoes of next year due to the profieration of pwned mobiles, according to DDoS security bod Shawn Marck.…
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Asian mobiles the DDOS threat of 2015, security mob says
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
Report in Japan says ‘150,000 hits per second’ A Japanese newspaper is reporting that during the spectacular collapse of the Mt Gox Bitcoin exchange, the operation’s servers were also suffering a large-scale DDOS attack.…
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Mt Gox fielded MASSIVE DDOS attack before collapse
Bet you’re shocked to hear that, aren’t you? The Tor anonymisation network is being used to hide 900 botnet and cybercrime-related hidden services, according to Kaspersky Lab.…
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Botnet masters using Tor to hide control tools for ZOMBIE SLAVES
FBI went down to Georgia Russian national Aleksandr Andreevich Panin has pleaded guilty to charges of banking and wire fraud for his role in developing the SpyEye Trojan, which used botnets of enslaved computers to harvest financial credentials from internet users around the world.…
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Russian SpyEye author pleads guilty to starting malware onslaught
Spook agency denies DDOS, blames sysadmins The USA’s National Security Agency (NSA), lately the source of near-endless controversy for spying on just about the entire internet, has itself hit trouble online after its website went down.…
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NSA.gov goes down after ‘error during scheduled update’