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Brit behind Titanium Stresser DDoS malware sent to chokey

20-year-old Herts man slapped with two years’ stripey suntan time A Hertfordshire man has been jailed for two years after netting nearly £400,000 from the malware he wrote as a 15-year-old student.…

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Operator of DDoS protection service named as Mirai author

Krebs says he’s fingered author of epic IoT web assault code The author of the massive distributed denial-of-service attack malware Mirai, which ropes infected routers and internet of things devices into remotely controlled armies, is a New Jersey man, according to journo Brian Krebs.…

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3… 2…1… and 123-Reg hit by DDoSers. Again

Happy New Year! Updated   Just days into the new year, and poor old 123-Reg is already experiencing problems, this time in the form of a DDoS attack – something it is no stranger to.…

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Someone hijacked the Dridex botnet to deliver Avira AV's installer

After last September's arrest of an alleged member of the gang that has been developing and spreading the Dridex banking malware, and last October's temporary disruption of the Dridex botnet at the ha…

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Someone hijacked the Dridex botnet to deliver Avira AV's installer

Group using DDoS attacks to extort business gets hit by European law enforcement

On 15 and 16 December, law enforcement agencies from Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany and the United Kingdom joined forces with Europol in the framework of an operation against the cybercrimin…

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Linode forces password reset for all users due to suspected breach

New Jersey-based virtual private server provider Linode can't seem to catch a break. After being repeatedly hit with DDoS attacks from December 24 to early January, the company announced on Tuesday th…

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Linode forces password reset for all users due to suspected breach

Are your competitors organizing DDoS attacks against you?

According to recent research from Kaspersky Lab and B2B International, nearly half (48 per cent) of the companies surveyed believe they know the identity and motivation of those behind recent DDoS att…

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Are your competitors organizing DDoS attacks against you?

DDoS attacks increase 180% compared to a year ago

Akamai Technologies announced its Q3 2015 report, which provides analysis and insight into the global cloud security threat landscape. “Akamai has been seeing greater numbers of denial of service a…

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DDoS attacks increase 180% compared to a year ago

Open source Twittor tool can control botnets via Direct Messages

A security researcher has created a tool that allows botnet masters to control their botnet by simply sending out commands via Twitter accounts. “I mostly wanted to create a PoC after Twitter decid…

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Open source Twittor tool can control botnets via Direct Messages

Crypto e-mail provider ProtonMail pays ransom to stop DDoS attack, attack continues

Switzerland-based end-to-end encrypted e-mail provider ProtonMail has been on the receiving end of a heavy DDoS attack since Tuesday, November 3, and unavailable to its users for hours on end. Pro…

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Crypto e-mail provider ProtonMail pays ransom to stop DDoS attack, attack continues