Internet criminals are sidestepping the need to launch DDoS attack from large networks of malware-compromised bot PCs by using simpler server ‘booter shells’, mitigation firm Prolexic has warned.

A Russian script kiddie using little more than publicly available malware tools and exploits targeting weak credentials and configurations has assembled a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet ...

Late last year, an attacker known as "Matrix" orchestrated a large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by exploiting vulnerabilities in Internet of Things (IoT) devices. By leveraging ...

The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has been busy setting up phony DDoS-for-hire websites that seek to collect information on users, remind them that launching DDoS attacks is illegal, ...

A ‘booter’ service designed to simplify DDoS attacks has been hacked and the details of its paying customers revealed, it has emerged. Researcher Brian Krebs revealed the news in a blog post, claiming ...

Recipients of new game consoles this holiday season were robbed of their holiday gaming when a group of internet miscreants known as Lizard Squad launched a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS ...

Network professionals know that distributed denial-of-service attacks are an ever-growing danger. The recent assault on Twitter is just the latest evidence. Using a mushrooming array of advanced tools ...

In 2015, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks were estimated to represent a significant portion of the $15.4 million per year cybercrime cost to average American firms (taken in a study from ...

LizardSquad, the group who knocked Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network offline over Christmas, subsequently revealed that their motive was to publicise their ‘booter’ site, designed to allow paying ...

The Great Cannon Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) tool was deployed again to launch attacks against the LIHKG social media platform used by Hong Kong protesters to coordinate during this year's ...

The Internet of Things is creating serious new security risks. We examine the possibilities and the dangers. Read now A team of Dutch and German academics has studied the aftermath of a major ...