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21 Jan

DDoS Mitigation Firm Founder Admits to DDoS — Krebs on Security

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A Georgia man who co-founded a service designed to protect companies from crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has pleaded to paying a DDoS-for-hire service to launch attacks against others. Tucker Preston,...
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20 Dec

#deepweb | DDoS trends to watch for in 2020

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Multi-vector DDoS attacks are once again on the rise after a long period of decline. The attacks rose 30% in Q3 2019 when compared to its previous quarter. Whenever multiple systems...
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29 Oct

The Pirate Bay was recently down for over a week due to a DDoS attack

It seems like the prolonged downtime and technical difficulties faced by The Pirate Bay over the past several weeks were due to a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against the widely-popular torrent website by malicious actors. For...
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29 Oct

#cybersecurity | hacker | DDoS attackers claim to be Russian APT group, demand ransom

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A group of extortionists claiming to be the Russian APT group Fancy Bear launched a ransom denial of service (RDoS) campaign against numerous industry sectors earlier this month, demanding a payment...
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4 Jul

DDoS Attacker Who Ruined Gamers’ Christmas Gets 27 Months in Prison

A 23-year-old hacker from Utah who launched a series of DDoS attacks against multiple online services, websites, and online gaming companies between December 2013 and January 2014 has been sentenced to 27 months in prison. Austin Thompson, a.k.a. “DerpTroll,” pledged...
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13 Jun

Telegram Suffers ‘Powerful DDoS Attack’ From China During Hong Kong Protests

Telegram, one of the most popular encrypted messaging app, briefly went offline yesterday for hundreds of thousands of users worldwide after a powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack hit its servers. Telegram founder Pavel Durov later revealed that the attack was...
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17 Jan

Ukrainian Police Arrest 6 Hackers Linked to DDoS and Financial Attacks

Ukrainian Police have this week busted out two separate groups of hackers involved in carrying out DDoS attacks against news agencies and stealing money from Ukrainian citizens, respectively. According to the authorities, the four suspected hackers they arrested last week,...
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25 Sep

Bitcoin Core Software Patches a Critical DDoS Attack Vulnerability

The Bitcoin Core development team has released an important update to patch a major DDoS vulnerability in its underlying software that could have been fatal to the Bitcoin Network, which is usually known as the most hack-proof and secure blockchain....
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9 Mar

Over 15,000 Memcached DDoS Attacks Hit 7,100 Sites in Last 10 Days

Memcached reflections that recently fueled two most largest amplification DDoS attacks in the history have also helped other cybercriminals launch nearly 15,000 cyber attacks against 7,131 unique targets in last ten days, a new report revealed. Chinese Qihoo 360’s Netlab,...
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8 Mar

‘Kill Switch’ to Mitigate Memcached DDoS Attacks — Flush ‘Em All

Security researchers have discovered a “kill switch” that could help companies protect their websites under massive DDoS attack launched using vulnerable Memcached servers. Massive Memcached reflection DDoS attacks with an unprecedented amplification factor of 50,000 recently resulted in some of...
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