Results for 'ddos'
How to tell if your toothbrush is being used in a DDoS attack
February 7, 2024 - Your essential guide to toothbrush security.
Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS)
Short bio DDOS, or Distributed Denial of Service tools, are malicious applications designed to mount an attack against a service or website...
Fake DDoS services set up to trap cybercriminals
March 28, 2023 - The “online criminal marketplace” has been disrupted via several fake Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) tools, according to an announcement from The British National...
Worldwide law enforcement action takes down major DDoS booter services
December 16, 2022 - Criminals making use of booter services which execute Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks to take down websites will have to try...
DDoS-for-hire service provider jailed
June 20, 2022 - Matthew Gatrel, a 33-year-old man from St. Charles, Illinois, has been sentencedto two years in prison for running websites that provide...
Record breaking HTTPS DDoS attack
June 15, 2022 - Last week, Cloudflareblocked the largest HTTPS DDoSattack on record. The attack amassed some 26 million requests per second (rps). The previous...
Massive increase in XorDDoS Linux malware in last six months
May 25, 2022 - Microsoft says it’s recorded a massive increasein XorDDoSactivity (254 percent) in the last six months. XorDDoS, a Linux Trojan known for...
Ukraine government and pro-Ukrainian sites hit by DDoS attacks
April 29, 2022 - The Computer Emergency Response Team in Ukraine (CERT-UA) has announced that Ukraine government web portals and pro-Ukraine sites are subjected to...
DDoS barrage against Israel described as the “largest ever” cyberattack its faced
March 15, 2022 - Several government websites in Israel—those using the .gov.ildomain—were inaccessible after a distributed denial of service (DDoS)attack hit Israel’s telecommunication provider, Cellcom....
