GoDaddy, on of the biggest and most popular Internet domain registrars and web hosting companies in the world, has suffered an outage on Monday that left many of its customers' websites temporarily av…
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Millions of GoDaddy sites go offline due to alleged DDoS attack
Joshua Schichtel was sentenced to 30 months in prison for selling command-and-control access to and use of thousands of malware-infected computers. In addition to his prison term, Schichtel was ordere…
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Arizona man goes to prison for selling access to botnets
DDoS attacks are usually seen as the domain of hacktivists and hackers looking to block – then blackmail – companies that are heavily dependent on their Internet presence. But, with the rise of bot…
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DDoS attacks aimed at telecom systems are on the rise
As you have probably already heard, the Grum botnet – formerly the third largest in the world – has been effectively shut down last week after several security researchers managed to coordinate the ta…
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Bot herders try to resurrect Grum, fail
Corero Network Security is extending its capabilities with the launch of ReputationWatch. It will identify in real-time known malicious entities and block access to ‘bad’ IP addresses ‘on-the-fly’ bas…
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Real-time IP address blocking of DDoS attacks
When Microsoft disrupted two of the most harmful botnets using Zeus malware in March, they also filed a lawsuit at the federal district court in New York against the bot herders who, at the time, were…
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Microsoft names alleged Zeus bot herders
It has already been established that the criminals behind the Flashback botnet were after money, but according to Symantec researchers, their plan was foiled by the attention that the first massive Ma…
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Flashback botmasters earned less than $15K
After 72 hours of being hit with an extensive DDoS attack and having been intermittently inaccessible to its visitors, The Pirate Bay and WikiLeaks are back online. It was initially thought that An…
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Anti-Anonymous hacker takes credit for The Pirate Bay DDoS
Following the discovery of a 600K strong Flashback botnet, Apple has been trying to undo the damage to its reputation and has worked on issuing tools, patches and updates aimed at cleaning up the infe…
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Apple ships Flashback removal tool for OS X 10.5 Leopard
Two Norwegian teenagers believed to have led DDoS attacks on a number of Norwegian and international websites have been arrested last Friday and Monday. The rather short notification by the Norwegi…
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Two Norwegians arrested over DDoS attacks