There is a direct correlation between cryptocurrency and DDoS attacks. As the price of cryptocurrency dropped in 2018, leading to decreased profits from cryptomining, hackers on the black market began to divert prime botnet resources to DDoS attack activities,...
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Man charged over Cheshire and Greater Manchester Police cyber-attacks
A man has been charged over cyber-attacks which targeted the websites of two police forces. Liam Reece Watts, 19, of Stratford Road in Chorley, Lancashire, faces two counts of unauthorised acts with intent to impair operation of or prevent...
Cyber threats are reaching for the cloud and more
Recent years have seen a boom in tech innovation. From newly connected cities and organisations built on the backbone of the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificially-intelligent chatbots that tackle customer service issues to cloud storage and computing that...
DOSarrest Launches New Cloud Based Network Traffic Analyzer Service
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — DOSarrest Internet Security announced today that they have released a new service offering called DOSarrest Traffic Analyzer (DTA). This new service allows subscribers to send their Netflow, Sflow or Jflow network data...
Was The Facebook Outage A Cyber-Attack?
Yesterday, at about 11am EST, a hashtag started trending on Twitter: #Facebookdown. The social media site and its sister, Instagram, were suffering an outage. Some users weren’t able to log in to their accounts at all while others were experiencing...
Hackers Are Targeting Airlines In Record Numbers. Here’s What That Means For You.
Hackers are targeting airlines as never before, and this could affect your next flight. That’s the conclusion of a troubling new study of airline IT outages by Netscout, a provider of application and network performance management products. Attacks against...
DoJ Charges Hackers with Staging Computer Attacks
Federal authorities have arrested two alleged members of a hacking group known as the Apophis Squad on charges of making false threats of violent attacks and staging attacks on multiple computer systems. According to an announcement from the Department...
Are Hackers Winning The Denial Of Service Wars?
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are a particularly pernicious form of cyberattack where the bad actor seeks to take down a web site or even an entire corporate network by flooding it with malicious traffic. DDoS attacks have...
Small-scale DDoS attacks are on the rise
Spreading tiny parts of junk traffic across a wide range of IP addresses can wreak havoc, while avoiding detection. A new type of DDoS attacks has emerged, and it targets communications service providers (CSP). According to security firm Nexusguard,...
Hacker who took down entire nation’s internet is jailed
A British hacker whose cyberattacks took the nation of Liberia offline has been jailed for almost three years. Daniel Kaye launched a series of attacks on Liberian cell phone operator Lonestar in October 2015, which became so powerful they...
