Martin Gottesfeld set off DDoS attacks against hospitals in #opJustina, fled the country in a boat, and had to be rescued by a Disney ship.
Tag Archives: DDoS
21-year-old spy tool developer faces prison
Luminosity RAT sold for as little as $39.99 and could spy, steal passwords, mine cryptocurrency, and launch DDoSes.
So long! ‘The internet’s most inept criminal’ goes to jail
The FBI took six months to track him down – what they found was a disturbed hacker with “no skills”.
Oh the irony! When cybercriminals are rubbish at cybersecurity
The Owari DDoS botnet, built by knocking over weakly-secured Internet of Things (IoT) devices, has had a bad week.
Cloudflare mistakes own 1.1.1.1 DNS for DDoS attack
When is a DDoS attack not a DDoS attack? When it’s caused by your own recently-launched DNS service.
Access denied! World’s largest denial of service site busted
The site’s down and at least four of its admins have been arrested
TalkTalk keeps talking about that data breach but never says the right thing
With every new piece of information about the TalkTalk breach, we seem to get no closer to the truth about what exactly happened, who was responsible, and what TalkTalk is doing to fix this messy affair.
National Crime Agency website DDoSed by Lizard Squad
NCA busts a bunch of blokes who allegedly used Lizard Squad’s DDoS service. Guess what happens next?
Here’s a phish you might not spot – 60 Second Security
Our latest weekly security video – and it only takes a minute. Why not give it a try?
National Crime Agency snares teens who used Lizard Squad DDoS tool
The NCA says it wants to reform the teens caught up in its operation targeting users of LizardStresser, an online tool for attacking websites. Is a stern talking-to enough? Or should they face jail time?