There’s no skill in this, agency sneers The National Crime Agency’s website has been hit by a DDoS attack, in an apparent act of revenge for the body’s recent crackdown on users of Lizard Squad.…
See the article here:
NCA targeted by Lizard Squad in apparent DDoS revenge attack
Officers also visiting 50 addresses for a quiet word The National Crime Agency has arrested six users of a Lizard Squad DDoS attack tool, which had been used against a national newspaper, a school, gaming companies, and a number of online retailers.…
Read more here:
NCA arrests six Lizard Squad users after gaming firms, retailers targetted
Officers also visiting 50 addresses for a quiet word The National Crime Agency has arrested six users of a Lizard Squad DDoS attack tool, which had been used against a national newspaper, a school, gaming companies, and a number of online retailers.…
Continue reading here:
NCA arrests six Lizard Squad users after gaming firms, retailers targeted
Perp known as ‘DD4BC’ has some serious heat on his or her tail, with worse to come A group of security boffins have joined police and intelligence spooks in a clandestine mission to identify those behind distributed denial of service (DDoS) extortion attacks against major banks.…
More:
Spooks, plod and security industry join to chase bank hacker
What’s that big spike on site performance graph? GitHub is under a distributed-denial-of-service attack being perpetrated by unknown actors.…
View article:
GitHub wobbles under DDOS attack
Not the way you want to lead the world Level 3 Communications says America is home to more botnet command and control servers, edging out the Ukraine, with Russia only managing third place.…
Original post:
US the world’s botnet mothership says Level 3
Laying waste to human, elf, dwarf and orc alike, all for the love of gold Running botnets-for-hire to mount DDoS attacks has become cheaper and easier than ever, according to a new research.…
See original article:
Unable to log on to online games? Blame cheap-rate DDoSers
Cough up or we’ll blitz you again, scum tell hapless marks Bitcoin extortionists DD4BC have begun targeting Scandinavian companies with complex DDoS attacks.…
Visit site:
Bitcoin blackmail gang start hurling DDoSes at Scandinavia
A harsh lesson, now stand in corridor for four hours The University of London Computer Centre fell victim to a cyber-attack on Thursday.…
Read this article:
DDoS attack downs University of London learning platform
Vulnerability may allow ne’er-do-wells to access the 1990s SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Stefan Viehbock says potentially millions of routers and internet of things devices using KCodes NetUSB could be exposed to remote hijacking or denial of service attacks.…
Originally posted here:
‘Millions’ of routers open to absurdly outdated NetUSB hijack