Namecheap hit by huge DDoS attack
The Web-hosting service Namecheap has been struck with what it says was one the most significant distributed-denial-of-service attacks anyone has seen or been hit by. On Thursday morning approximately...
View Article300Gbps DDoS attack on firm exploits server flaw
Hacktivists launched up an immense and formerly undocumented 300Gbps DDoS attack earlier this summer by taking advantage of an obscure motherboard-level exploit on 100,000 unpatched servers, VeriSign...
View ArticleBotnet with over 25,000 CCTVs launches DDoS attacks
A botnet consisting exclusively of internet-designed closed circuit TV appliances launched queries of HTTP requests to hit a small jewelry store offline for several days. Experts who discovered the...
View ArticleCloudflare Stops Record-Breaking DDoS
Cloudflare has reported that it successfully neutralized the largest recorded DDoS attack in history. The attack, a 26 million request per second onslaught, targeted a customer on the Cloudflare free...
View ArticleDownthem DDoS service owner gets a 2-year prison sentence
Matthew Gatrel, a resident of St. Charles, Illinois, has been sentenced to two years in prison for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The 33-year-old was convicted of running a “DDoS...
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