How we can get out of the DNS DDoS trap
A new class of enormous DDoS attacks emerged March 26 with a DNS reflection attack by email spammer CyberBunker against anti-spam service Spamhaus. The reported traffic peak of 300Gbps was double the...
View ArticleDDoS attack sizes rise above 2Gbps for first time
Average DDoS attack sizes have climbed above the 2Gbps mark for the first time, mitigation firm Arbor Networks has reported after crunching figures from its Atlas system for the first half of 2013.
View ArticleDDoS attacks getting bigger but shorter in duration
Hacktivist group Izz ad-Dim al-Qassam Cyber Fighters's strategy said to be driving up raw number of attacks and depressing their duration
View ArticleBritish teen accused of massive Spamhaus DDoS attack arrested months ago
Police secretly arrested a London-based teen last April in connection with the huge DDoS attack on anti-spam organisation Spamhaus, it has been confirmed.
View ArticleDDoS attacks sizes continue to swell during 2013, Arbor says
The average size of DDoS attacks is still climbing with the number breaching 20Gbps around four times the level seen a year ago, according to Arbor Networks.
View ArticleDemystifying DDoS attacks: Google Ideas and Arbor show off new visualisation...
Google's Ideas 'think/do tank' is to publish a daily visualisation of global DDoS attacks and trends based on data fed to it by mitigation firm Arbor Networks.
View ArticleDDoS criminals show growing interest in DNS reflection attacks, Prolexic reports
The shuddering effectiveness of the DNS reflection DDoS attack on Spamhaus this March is a forewarning of a growing criminal interest in the technique, new figures from mitigation firm Prolexic have...
View ArticleMet Police's PCeU ‘could have stopped more cyber crime'
The structure of the Metropolitan Police's now-dissolved Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) was a barrier to preventing some cyber crimes, according to an e-crime expert.
View ArticleMonster NTP DDoS attack was too easy, complains CloudFlare CEO
This week's gigantic DDoS attack on mitigation firm CloudFlare was made possible by weak configuration of a relatively small number of NTP servers, including some inside the intended target, the firm's...
View ArticleDNS Flooder toolkit turns DDoS reflection attacks into service, says Prolexic
Criminals have started using a new DDoS toolkit that offers a simple shortcut for criminals interested in using DNS reflection attacks to pound targets with vast amounts of traffic, mitigation firm...
View ArticleSpamhaus readies new antimalware data feeds
The Spamhaus Project will soon publish two new data feeds intended to prevent people from being lured to malware-infected websites and domains.
View ArticleUK teen arrested for Spamhaus DDoS attacks charged by police
The teen arrested last year in connection with the huge DNS reflection DDoS attack against anti-spam outfit Spamhaus has been charged, the National Crime Agency (NCA) has said.
View ArticleSpamhaus pushes for arrests of alleged DDoS participants
An antispam organization is pushing for quick law enforcement action against five people it alleges took part in one of the largest cyberattacks on record that caused Internet outages throughout Europe...
View ArticleHackers summon 'CDRDos' attack against Australian data centre using supertool
On 2 August, apparently for the first time ever, a hacking group coordinated a number of different reflection-style DDoS attacks against a single data centre, the mitigation firm involved, NSFOCUS, has...
View ArticleOver 23,000 Web servers infected with CryptoPHP backdoor
Over 23,000 Web servers were infected with a backdoor called CryptoPHP that's bundled with pirated themes and plug-ins for popular content management systems.
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