A British man who pleaded guilty to selling homemade distributed denial-of-service attack tools reportedly used to carry out more than 600,000 attacks has escaped jail time, with a judge calling him "young and naïve."
While nations around the world are considered C2 traffic offenders,
the regions generating the highest levels of traffic are Europe and the United
States. An average of 20 percent of the tracked C2s were based in North America
with a nearly equal amount launching from the Ukraine and Russia combined. Unusual...
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As DDoS attacks become more sophisticated, organizations must include prevention components in their overall security infrastructure, rather than just their network infrastructure, JP Blaho of Arbor Networks says in this video interview.
DDoS as an extortion tactic continues to reinvent itself, and has replaced hacktavism as the leading driver of DDoS attacks during 2015. Whether shifting its target demographics from Bitcoin exchanges or more traditionally known financial services institutions, using DDoS tactics has never been easier, cheaper or more...
The Justice Department has unsealed indictments against seven Iranians, allegedly working on behalf of the Iranian government, who are suspected of conducting DDoS attacks against dozens of American banks and attempting to seize control of Bowman Dam outside New York City.
Credit card and other personal information was exposed in a data breach of Internet hosting provider Staminus Communications, which specializes in protection against distributed denial-of-service attacks. The company hosts the website of the Ku Klux Klan white supremacist group, which was also brought down.
DDoS attacks are on the rise, and they come across multiple vectors. In this video interview, Paul Nicholson of A10 Networks describes how organizations can defend against DDoS - and why SSL traffic inspection is a must.
Cyber-extortion attacks, especially those involving DDoS gangs that threaten disruptions unless the targeted organization pays a bitcoin ransom, are on the rise. Experts describe how organizations should respond to - and resist - these attacks.
Extortion campaigns waged by cybercriminals are expected to become more damaging in 2016, putting additional pressure on CISOs to enhance protection of internal networks and educate employees about extortionists' techniques, says iSight Partner's John Miller.
Will this week's arrests of a "main target" and another suspect tied to the distributed denial-of-service extortion group known as DD4BC deter copycats from waging similar schemes? Experts weigh in.
European police have arrested a "main target" as part of a previously undisclosed law enforcement effort, dubbed Operation Pleiades, against the distributed denial-of-service attack gang called DD4BC, or "DDoS for Bitcoin."
The Irish Reporting and Information Security Service's IRISSCON Cyber Crime Conference is due to touch on DDoS, fraud, breach response, malware, social engineering, the Paris terror attacks and more.
Distributed-denial-of-service attacks on banks are more powerful than ever, but we hear less about them than we did three years ago. How have attackers changed their tactics, and why should we be even more concerned about their strikes?
Buoyed by massive illicit profits, cybercriminals have continued to refine their ransomware attacks, including updating their crypto techniques to foil decryption tools, encrypting file names and threatening to leak stolen secrets.
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