Security experts have revealed that a Linux botnet using XOR DDoS malware discovered last years has grown so powerful that it can virtually bring any victim’s network to a grinding halt by…
Tag: DDoS
Github suffers ‘largest denial-of-service attack’ ever
Popular coding site Github recently suffered from a massive distributed-denial-of-service attack which the company claims is the largest denial-of-service attack in its history. Beginning Thursday, GitHub was hit by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)…
UK Police arrest alleged Lizard Squad member
UK Police has reportedly arrested an alleged member of the Lizard Squad, the notorious hacking group that claimed responsibility for the cyberattacks against Sony’s PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox Live gaming networks…
Microsoft Xbox Live and Sony PlayStation Network face outages on Christmas
Microsoft’s Xbox Live and Sony’s PlayStation Network faced outages on the Christmas Eve following DDoS by a hacking group calling themselves the Lizard Squad. Microsoft acknowledged the disruption and posted a message…
Telegram under 150Gbps DDoS attack
Cross platform messaging app Telegram has been a target of massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks for two days in a row over the weekend with the largest in tune of…
Sony: No personal information accessed during PSN DDoS
The DDoS attack hit PSN just a day before it was supposed to be shut for a prescheduled maintenance.
PlayStation Network stutters; hacking collective takes DDoS responsibility
It seems that just before the network was supposed to go down for a planned maintenance, hackers have done the job for Sony.
BT: DDoS attacks on alarming rise; 4 out of 10 organizations affected last year
49 percent of the UK organisations have a response plan for DDoS attacks in place, with one-third of them considering it as a key concern.
CloudFlare’s Project Galileo to combat DDoS attacks
CloudFlare has come up with Project Galileo to identify and protect the voice of public interest entities!
Feedly, Evernote DDoS’d; perpetrators demand ransom
Two of the most used services – one for its RSS service and other for note taking – have been affected by DDoS since hours.
Over 160,000 legitimate WordPress sites used for DDoS attack
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks aren’t new and 2013 was one of the worst years when it comes to such attacks that too through the use of large botnets and /…
Namecheap bombarded with 100Gbps DDoS attack; 300 websites knocked offline for 3 hours
Namecheap, a popular domain registrar and web hosting service, was at the receiving end of a 100Gbps Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack which knocked off over 300 websites for almost 3…
Akamai: China leapfrogs Indonesia as largest source of attack traffic
China has surpassed Indonesia to become the largest source of attack traffic for the third quarter of 2013 according to latest State of the Internet report from Akamai. The report notes that…
Cisco: There is a shortage of more than a million security professionals globally
Cisco’s 2014 Annual Security Report claims that as governments, organisations and IT industry as a whole is failing to cope with the ever increasing number of cyber attacks and security breaches, there…
Dropbox hits by DDoS, but user data safe; The 1775 Sec claims responsibility
Dropbox website went offline last night with a hacking collecting calling itself The 1775 Sec claiming responsibility of the attack on the cloud storage company’s website. The 1775 Sec took to twitter…