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The protracted arms race between criminals who wage distributed denial-of-service attacks and the defenders who attempt to stop them continues, as the former embraces “alarming” new methods to make their online offensives more powerful
Cado researchers recently detected an interesting attack pattern linked to an emerging cybercrime group tracked as Diicot (formerly, “Mexals”) and described in …
In early June, Microsoft suffered severe outages for some of its services, including Outlook email, OneDrive file-sharing apps, and the cloud computing …
An international operation codenamed PowerOff led to the shutdown of a DDoS-for-hire service that has been active …
Researchers from Akamai discovered a new botnet called Dark Frost that was employed in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
The …
FortiGuard Labs researchers have recently observed a spike in attacks attempting to exploit the Ruckus Wireless Admin remote code execution vulnerability tracked …
The U.S. Justice Department announced the seizure of 13 domains linked to DDoS-for-hire services as part of a coordinated international law …
Enlarge / A domain seizure notice from the Justice Department, showing the national seals of several other governments.
The US Justice Department has sized the domains of 13 DDoS-for hire services as part of an ongoing initiative for combatting the
The pro-Russia hacker group NoName is claiming responsibility for a DDoS attack that took the website of the French Senate offline.
“Access …
A high-severity security vulnerability (CVE-2023-29552, CVSS score: 8.6) impacting the Service Location Protocol (SLP) can be exploited by threat actors to …