Those things drop out of pockets at the worst times. Like, say, when you’re hurling a bomb at a brick-and-mortar that you’ve also DDoSed.
Tag Archives: DDoS
FBI crackdown on DDoS-for-hire sites led to 85% slash in attack sizes
According to a new report, average and maximum DDoS attack sizes decreased by 85.36% and 23.91%.
Microsoft fixes web server DDoS bug
Overzealous use of HTTP/2 flow control settings in IIS could have brought servers to their knees.
It’s mop-up time for WebStresser DDoS-for-hire users
Cops from 14 countries are seeking to inflict a bit of distributed denial-of-freedom to whoever’s behind 6 million around-the-globe attacks.
10 years for Boston Children’s Hospital DDoSer
Martin Gottesfeld said he wishes he “had done more” than knock out BCH’s network for at least two weeks.
DerpTrolling game server DDoS attacker pleads guilty
Austin Thompson pleaded guilty on November 6 in a San Diego Federal court to knowingly causing damage to third-party computers.
Poorly secured SSH servers targeted by Chalubo botnet
SophosLabs has detected a new DDoS botnet targeting poorly secured SSH servers – called Chalubo, it is named in honour of its use of the ChaCha stream cipher.
Maker of LuminosityLink RAT gets 30 months in the clink
Prosecutors said that the 21-year-old LuminosityLink author had no respect for the law and showed contempt for moral rules and social norms.
FBI wants to keep “helpful” Mirai botnet authors around
The young men behind the powerful IoT device botnet have been working undercover with law enforcement since they were first fingered.
Teen hacker admits to SWATting schools, airline flight
The teenager made bomb threats to schools, and to a flight between the UK and San Francisco while it was in mid-air.