Largest DDoS attack so far this year peaked at 45 Gbps, says company
A week-long DDoS attack that launched a flood of traffic at an Asian e-commerce company in early November was the biggest such incident so far this year, according to Prolexic, a company that defends...
View ArticleOpen DNS resolvers increasingly abused to amplify DDoS attacks, report says
Open and misconfigured DNS (Domain Name System) resolvers are increasingly used to amplify distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, according to a report released Wednesday by HostExploit, an...
View ArticleBotnets for hire likely used in attacks against US banks, security firm says
Evidence collected from a website that was recently used to flood U.S. banks with junk traffic suggests that the people behind the ongoing DDoS attack campaign against U.S. financial institutions --...
View ArticleMt. Gox under largest DDoS attack as bitcoin price surges
The largest bitcoin exchange said Thursday it is fighting an intense distributed denial-of-service attack it believes is intended at manipulating the price of virtual currency, which has seen volatile...
View ArticleDDOS attacks have increased in number and size this year, report says
The volume, duration and frequency of distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks used to flood websites and other systems with junk traffic have significantly increased during the first three months...
View ArticleAging networking protocols abused in DDoS attacks
Aging networking protocols still employed by nearly every Internet-connected device are being abused by hackers to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
View ArticleDDoS-attack takes Dutch government sites offline for 10 hours
A sophisticated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) blocked Dutch government and privately run commercial sites from the public for more than 10 hours Tuesday.
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