Kyrgyzstan Taken Offline by Huge Denial of Service Attack
Isn’t it amazing in this day and age an entire country can be knocked offline by Denial of Service attacks! You’d have though it wouldn’t happen any more. I do remember the days when it was fairly...
View ArticleMalware Distributor & Bot Network Master Sentenced To 4 Years
It seems to the feds are really cracking down on cybercrime recently, with a special kind of attention paid to botnets and their handlers. The sentences are getting stiffer too, this time with 4 years...
View ArticleDNS DDoS Attack Takes Down China Internet
The latest news is a few million Chinese Internet users had trouble accessing any websites yesterday due to a DDoS attack on the DNS system from one of the countries registrars. It just shows that...
View ArticleHospital Hacker GhostExodus Owns Himself – Arrested
This story actually gave me a lot of LULZ, how stupid can you be seriously? Man this guy made so many mistakes for someone so paranoid (he had a web cam setup outside his appartment door so he could...
View ArticleTwitter & Facebook Taken Offline By DDoS Attacks
Both Facebook and Twitter were hit with pretty severe DDoS attacks rendering them useless and unavailable to the majority of users. The thing is it seems like it wasn’t a traditional network based...
View ArticleZeus-related Botnet Servers Taken Offline
We wrote about Zeus a while back, a nasty trojan which can evade detection by Anti-virus software and is ranked as the number 1 trojan infector by numbers. About a week ok a massive sting operation...
View ArticleChina Reports Millions Of Conficker Infections
Conficker has been giving us all headaches for quite some time now, the latest news it that China hosts up to 28% of the World Conficker infections at its peak. 7 million separate hosts infected with...
View Articleddosim v0.2 – Application Layer DDOS Simulator
DDOSIM simulates several zombie hosts (having random IP addresses) which create full TCP connections to the target server. After completing the connection, DDOSIM starts the conversation with the...
View ArticleWikiLeaks Attacks Cause Rival DDoS Retaliation
The biggest news by far for the past week or so has been the attacks on WikiLeaks infrastructure after posting tens of thousands of classified cables online in a categorized form. Just a few days ago...
View ArticleTHC SSL DoS/DDoS Tool Released For Download
THC-SSL-DOS is a tool to verify the performance of SSL. Establishing a secure SSL connection requires 15x more processing power on the server than on the client. THC-SSL-DOS exploits this asymmetric...
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Source Code Hosting Service Code Spaces Deleted By Hacker
There’s been a LOT of noise about this incident in the past day or two, the very definition of a cloud nightmare. Git/SVN & Project Management SaaS Code Spaces has been hacked and completely...
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Rackspace Recovers From Major DNS DDoS
So Rackspace has just recovered from a major DNS DDoS attack which rendered some domains inaccessible for over 11 hours. It seems to have been a fairly frequent occurrence lately with Namecheap also...
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ProtonMail DDoS Attack – Sustained & Sophisticated
So the ProtonMail DDoS Attack – if you’re not familiar ProtonMail is an secure, free, encrypted e-mail service that promises absolutely no compromises. It’s been getting hit hard since November 3rd,...
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Linode DDoS Attack – Merry Xmas Sysadmins
So the Linode DDoS attack – seems like this xmas has been a terrible time for sys admins, along with what happened to Steam and A Small Orange (100+ hours down). A whole lot of work during the most...
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UFONet – Open Redirect DDoS Tool
UFONet is an open redirect DDoS tool designed to launch attacks against a target, using insecure redirects in third party web applications, like a botnet. Obviously, only for testing purposes. The tool...
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Two Israeli Men Arrested For Running VDoS-s.com DDoS Service
DDoS or Booter services have been around for a while, but VDoS-s.com was a particularly slick (and shameless) one with a content marketing strategy and active social media accounts. Two Israeli men...
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Mirai DDoS Malware Source Code Leaked
So there’s been some HUGE DDoS attacks going on lately, up to 620Gbps and the Mirai DDoS Malware has been fingered – with the source code also being leaked. It’s spreading like wildfire too, and the...
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The Dyn DNS DDoS That Killed Half The Internet
Last week the Dyn DNS DDoS took out most of the East coast US websites including monsters like Spotify, Twitter, Netflix, Github, Heroku and many more. Hopefully it wasn’t because I shared the Mirai...
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UK Teen Earned More Than US$385,000 From DDoS Service
Another DDoS service down after the owner got busted, this time a UK teenager who created the service called Titanium Stresser when he was just 15. Not long ago we wrote about the two Israeli guys who...
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Ending The Year With A 650Gbps DDoS Attack
It seems that 2016 has been the year of immense DDoS attacks, many coming from Mirai. This seems to be a newcomer though ending the year with a 650Gbps DDoS attack. The Dyn DNS DDoS attack that some...
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