Hackers Launch DDoS Attack on D.C. Government Websites

Hackers Launch DDoS Attack on D.C. Government Websites Hackers launched a DoS denial of service attack on D.C. government websites today, clogging the system with a flurry of requests so that it operates extremely slow or is impossible to load. "The District government has detected an attempted...

MI6, CIA and Department of Justice Tango Down !

MI6, CIA and Department of Justice Tango Down ! Hacker group Anonymous claimed it took down the CIA website for the second time in two months following a new DDoS attack on the U.S. secret service which lasted 45 minutes. Anonymous is reportedly on a DDoS rampage today, downing the CIA, Departmen...

Botnets, DDoS attacks as weapon against financial sector

Botnets, DDoS attacks as weapon against financial sector DDOS attacks against the financial sector almost tripled during the first quarter of this year, according to DDoS mitigation specialist Prolexic. The firm also reported a 3,000 per cent quarter-on-quarter increase in malicious packet traffi...

Anonymous Knocks CISPA Supporters Offline

The Anonymous Internet collective is claiming responsibility for DDoS attacks that reportedly knocked offline the websites of prominent defense contractor, Boeing, and two trade associations, TechAmerica and USTelecom. The website of TechAmerica remained down Wednesday afternoon. In a phone...

Anonymous vs Britain's Home Office - Operation Trial At Home

Anonymous vs Britain's Home Office - Operation Trial At Home As announced during last days Anonymous has launched a Distributed Denial of Service DDoS against several UK government websites. A massive recruiting campaign is started on social media, a call to arm to protest the extradition of U.K...

#OpTrialAtHome : Anonymous Plans 7 April Attack on British government

Anonymous Plans 7 April Attack on British government UK hackers linked to the Anonymous group are encouraging supporters to attack the Home Office website this Saturday 7 April in protest at the extradition of three UK citizens to the US. Called OpTrialAtHome, the hacktivist group @AnonOpUK poste...

BBC: Pastebin to Police Hacker-Posts

Pastebin.com could soon find itself on the wrong side of some of its most reliable traffic generators, namely, Anonymous, what’s left of LulzSec, and other hackers now that the site’s owner, Jeroen Vader, said he plans on hiring more staff to patrol the text-sharing site for “sensitive...

Kelihos Botnet with 110,000 PCs take down finally

Kelihos Botnet with 110,000 PCs take down finally Botnets are particularly insidious, using thousands of virus-infected computers which their owners are unaware are being used for sending out spam, launching denial-of-service attacks and stealing data.But taking down a botnet poses challenges. Th...

Kaspersky Knocks Down Kelihos Botnet Again, But Expects Return

For the second time in six months, researchers from the Russian antivirus company, Kaspersky Lab, carried out an operation to take down the newest iteration of the Kelihos botnet, also known as “Hlux.” Microsoft and Kaspersky worked together in September, 2011, on the first Kelihos take-down. The...

http-chrono NSE Script

Measures the time a website takes to deliver a web page and returns the maximum, minimum and average time it took to fetch a page. Web pages that take longer time to load could be abused by attackers in DoS or DDoS attacks due to the fact that they are likely to consume more resources on the targ...

ZyXEL FTP service Remote DDoS

Exploit for windows platform in category dos / poc !/usr/bin/python print"1-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=0" print"0 1" print"1 /' \ /'\ /\ \ /'\ 0" print"0 /, \ /\/\ \ \ \ \ ,/\ /\ \ 1" print"1 //\ \ /' \ /\ //\ Exploit database separated by exploit...

Anonymous Attacker Package by Maxpain

Anonymous Attacker Package by Maxpain "Maxpain" Hacker and Security Developer, Releases two tools in an Package called "Anonymous Attacker Package". First one is - Anonymous external attack, allows you to execute udp flood web attack, into websites, this tool was made as external of LOIC, the...

NetBSD-ftpd 20100320 Remote DDoS

Exploit for bsd platform in category dos / poc !/usr/bin/python 1-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=0 0 1 1 /' \ /'\ /\ \ /'\ 0 0 /, \ /\/\ \ \ \ \ ,/\ /\ \ 1 1 //\ \ /' \ /\ //\ Exploit database separated by exploit 0 0 // type local, remote, DoS, etc. 1...

Six National Television Stations of Iran Hacked

Six National Television Stations of Iran Hacked Co-Cain Warriors hackers today hack into 6 National Television Stations of Iran including Broadcasting Elam Center, IRIB Kermanshah Center, IRIB Kerman and 3 more. Hacker upload the deface page on their server and announce the day as "HappY 7Sin Day...

Another DDOS tool from Anonymous - HOIC

Another DDOS tool from Anonymous - HOIC A new DDoS tool from Anonymous called high-orbit ion canon or HOIC come into light. Attackers are constantly changing their tactics and tools in response to defender's actions. HOIC is an Windows executable file. Once started, you will be presented with the...

Behind The Mask, Accused LulzSec Members Left Trail Of Clues Online

When the long arm of the law reached in to arrest members of Anonymous’s senior leadership on Tuesday, speculation immediately turned to the identities of the six men behind the Guy Fawkes mask. With the benefit of hindsight, it turns out that many had been hiding in plain site, with day jobs,...

Anonymous Hackers targets Turkish Prime Ministry Network

Anonymous Hackers targets Turkish Prime Ministry Network Unidentified hackers have broken into the website of the Turkish government claimed to be Part of Anonymous Group of Hackers. The hackers aimed to access official documents on government correspondence but were prevented from doing so by...

Facebook down for two hours across Europe, May be DDOS attack !

Facebook down for two hours across Europe, May be DDOS attack ! In a DDoS attack, hackers deliberately render servers inaccessible by overloading them with traffic. Such a barrage aimed at DNS servers can make it impossible to connect users to a website when they type the address. Where as facebo...

Elections 2012 and DDoS attacks in Russia

Vitaly Kamluk As Eugene Kaspersky had written earlier, we were expecting new DDoS attacks on resources covering the Russian presidential election. So, as the country went to the polls on 4 March, we were on the lookout for new DDoS attacks. We were surprised to hear a news report from one mass...

DDOS attack on LIME's Internet system

DDOS attack on LIME's Internet system LIME says the majority of the customers experiencing degradation in their broadband services over the past few days are now back online and connecting at normal speeds. LIME says the type of attack is known in technology circles as a distributed denial of...