China hit by massive DDoS attack causing the Internet inaccessibility for hours

During the weekend China's Internet was taken down by a powerful distributed denial of service DDoS attack on the .cn domain slowed and blocked Internet access inaccessibility for hours. Security expert clarified that China could have been perpetrated by sophisticated hackers or by a single...

China .cn Domain Available Again after DDoS Attack

Long fingered as the source of denial-of-service attacks and other hacks against foreign interests, China’s .cn domain was targeted on Sunday and approximately one-third of the sites registered to that domain were kept offline for a period of time. A statement from the China Internet Network...

Vulnerability in USB Internet Modems allows hacker to access Millions of Computers remotely

A USB Internet Modems or Data card, is a type of modem that allows your computer to receive Internet access using USB Port and connect to a GSM/CDMA network there by creating a PPPoE Point to Point protocol over Ethernet interface to your computer. Indian Security Researcher 'Rahul Sasi' found a...

Online Ad Networks Leverages to Launch Javascript Attacks

LAS VEGAS – Researchers have figured out how to leverage the reach of online advertising networks to distribute javascript of their choosing, creating the equivalent of a botnet of ad impressions capable of crashing underlying webservers or distributing malware on a massive scale for pennies on t...

DDoS Attack Takes Down DNS Provider Network Solutions

A distributed denial of service attack knocked the website of the domain name registrar Network Solutions LLC offline this morning and affected an unknown number of its clients’ sites as well. Network Solutions announced on its Facebook page that it was experiencing a DDoS attack just before 11...

Researchers Uncover PinkStats APT Toolkit

The arsenal of tools that attack groups use to do their business is seemingly endless, and many of them remain unknown for years before they’re discovered. Often, it’s not until a tool has been compromised or sold on the open market that researchers get a close look at it, but that’s been changin...

Massive 167Gbps DDoS attacks against Banking and Financial Institutions

DDoS attackers attempted to bring down an Banking services earlier this week using one of the largest Distributed denial of service attack using DNS reflection technique. Prolexic, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service DDoS protection services, announced that it has successfully...

DNS Amplification Attacks (UDP) - Active Check

A misconfigured Domain Name System DNS server can be exploited to participate in a Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

FBI sponsored Ragebooter DDoS attack service

A website that can be described as "DDoS for hire" is perfectly legitimate, according to the owner. Malicious sites that offer attack services are not strangers on the Internet, but web sites sponsored by law enforcement is another story altogether. Ragebooter, is one of many sites that accepts...

FBI sponsored Ragebooter DDoS attack service

A website that can be described as "DDoS for hire" is perfectly legitimate, according to the owner. Malicious sites that offer attack services are not strangers on the Internet, but web sites sponsored by law enforcement is another story altogether. Ragebooter, is one of many sites that accepts...

Millions of WordPress sites exploitable for DDoS Attacks using Pingback mechanism

Distributed Denial of Service attacks have increased in scale, intensity and frequency. The wide range of motives for these attacks political , criminal, or social makes every merchant or organization with an online presence a potential target. Over the weekend Incapsula mitigated a unique DDoS...

Suspected Hacker arrested for World's Biggest DDoS attack against Spamhaus

The Dutch police have confirmed the arrest of a 35-year-old man suspected of taking part in a massive DDoS attack against the anti-spam group Spamhaus back in March. The attack's bandwidth peaked at over 300Gbps, making it the largest DDoS attack in history. Their target, Spamhaus, is a company...

Suspected Hacker arrested for World's Biggest DDoS attack against Spamhaus

The Dutch police have confirmed the arrest of a 35-year-old man suspected of taking part in a massive DDoS attack against the anti-spam group Spamhaus back in March. The attack's bandwidth peaked at over 300Gbps, making it the largest DDoS attack in history. Their target, Spamhaus, is a company...

Anonymous hackers launch massive cyber assault on Israel Cyberspace, #OpIsrael

A cyber attack campaign, dubbed OpIsrael by hacking group Anonymous, targeting Israeli websites caused massive disruption to government, academic and private sites Sunday. Israeli media said small business had been targeted. Some homepage messages were replaced with anti-Israel slogans. Anonymous...

Anonymous hackers launch massive cyber assault on Israel Cyberspace, #OpIsrael

A cyber attack campaign, dubbed OpIsrael by hacking group Anonymous, targeting Israeli websites caused massive disruption to government, academic and private sites Sunday. Israeli media said small business had been targeted. Some homepage messages were replaced with anti-Israel slogans. Anonymous...

DDoS Attack, Database Breach Take Down Two Bitcoin Services

As with any asset of monetary value, once said asset reaches a noteworthy level, cybercriminals’ interest is going to pique. Such is the current situation with virtual currency Bitcoin, which hit a high of $142 yesterday and the value of all Bitcoins in circulation has soared to more than $1...

World's biggest DDoS attack that Almost Broke the Internet

The last week has seen probably the largest distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack ever. A massive 300Gbps was thrown against Internet blacklist maintainer Spamhaus' website but the anti-spam organisation , CloudFlare was able to recover from the attack and get its core services back up and...

Under the hood of recent DDoS Attack on U.S. Banks

Incapsula security study reveals how a simple neglect in managing the administrative password of a small UK site was quickly exploited by Botnet shepherds operating obscurely out of Turkey to hurl large amounts of traffic at American banks. If you've been following the news, you are probably awar...

[OWASP HTTP Post Tool] DoS Apache Webserver Attack

This Tutorials shows, how you can easily take out an Apache Webserver with one HTTP POST Tool using a std. slow DSL Connection. This is NO Slowloris Attack! Limitations of HTTP GET DDOS attack: - Does not work on IIS web servers or web servers with timeout limits for HTTP headers. - Easily...

Al-Qaida sites knocked offline before release of 'Salil al-Sawarim 3' movie

U.S. intelligence sources confirmed that, Official websites of Al-Qaida were knocked offline two weeks back and still down due to DDoS attack. According to source, "This is one of the longest disruptions the organization has experienced since it set up its online distribution system in 2006...