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KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Near-Record 6.3 Tbps DDoS

Krebs on Security

MAY 20, 2025

KrebsOnSecurity last week was hit by a near record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that clocked in at more than 6.3 The Aisuru botnet comprises a globally-dispersed collection of hacked IoT devices, including routers, digital video recorders and other systems that are commandeered via default passwords or software vulnerabilities.

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Owners of DDoS-for-Hire Service vDOS Get 6 Months Community Service

Krebs on Security

JUNE 7, 2020

The co-owners of vDOS , a now-defunct service that for four years helped paying customers launch more than two million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that knocked countless Internet users and websites offline, each have been sentenced to six months of community service by an Israeli court. vDOS as it existed on Sept.

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Notorious Malware, Spam Host “Prospero” Moves to Kaspersky Lab

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Last year, the French security firm Intrinsec detailed Prospero’s connections to bulletproof services advertised on Russian cybercrime forums under the names Securehost and BEARHOST. government for its hacking operations, CEO Eugene Kaspersky says he ordered workers to delete the code. The bulletproof hosting provider BEARHOST.

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Silence Hacking Crew threatens Australian banks of DDoS attacks

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

DDoS extortionists are blackmailing Australian banks asking for payments of large sums in Monero cryptocurrency threatening DDoS attacks. Cybercriminals are threatening Australian banks of DDoS attacks if they will not pay large sums in Monero cryptocurrency. SecurityAffairs – hacking, DDoS). Pierluigi Paganini.

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KrebsOnSecurity Hit By Huge New IoT Botnet “Meris”

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

On Thursday evening, KrebsOnSecurity was the subject of a rather massive (and mercifully brief) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. But on Thursday DDoS protection firm Qrator Labs identified the culprit — “Meris” — a new IoT monster that first emerged at the end of June 2021. In its Aug. Image: Qrator.

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Who’s Behind the Seized Forums ‘Cracked’ & ‘Nulled’?

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The FBI joined authorities across Europe last week in seizing domain names for Cracked and Nulled , English-language cybercrime forums with millions of users that trafficked in stolen data, hacking tools and malware. to , and vDOS , a DDoS-for-hire service that was shut down in 2016 after its founders were arrested. io , and rdp[.]sh.

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A powerful DDoS attack hit Hungarian banks and telecoms services

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Hungarian financial institutions and telecommunications infrastructure were hit by a powerful DDoS attack originating from servers in Russia, China and Vietnam. A powerful DDoS attack hit some Hungarian banking and telecommunication services that briefly disrupted them. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Hungary). Pierluigi Paganini.

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UK Ad Campaign Seeks to Deter Cybercrime

Krebs on Security

MAY 28, 2020

The United Kingdom’s anti-cybercrime agency is running online ads aimed at young people who search the Web for services that enable computer crimes, specifically trojan horse programs and DDoS-for-hire services. “This is all about showing people there are other paths they can take.” FLATTENING THE CURVE.

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AWS mitigated largest DDoS attack ever of 2.3 Tbps

Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

Tbps DDoS attack, the largest ever, which surpassed the previous record of 1.7 Amazon announced it has mitigated the largest ever DDoS attack of 2.3 ” The report didn’t name the target of the DDoS attack, AWS experts only revealed that the magnitude was obtained with CLDAP reflection attack. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Akamai mitigated the largest ever PPS DDoS attack

Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2020

Akamai announced to have mitigated a record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that hit a European bank. Akamai revealed that a bank in Europe was hit by a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked a record 809 million packets per second (PPS). SecurityAffairs – hacking, DDoS).

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German encrypted email service Tutanota suffers DDoS attacks

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The popular encrypted email service Tutanota was hit with a series of DDoS attacks this week targeting its website fist and its DNS providers later. Encrypted email service, Tutanota suffered a series of DDoS attacks that initially targeted the website and later its DNS providers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Tutanota).

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Google mitigated a 2.54 Tbps DDoS attack in 2017, the largest DDoS ever seen

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The Google Cloud team revealed that in September 2017 it has mitigated DDoS attack that reached 2.54 Tbps, the largest DDoS attack of ever. The Google Cloud team revealed that back in September 2017 it has mitigated a powerful DDoS attack that clocked at 2.54 Tbps DDoS attack mitigated by Amazon’s AWS in February.

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The Dutch police took down 15 DDoS-for-hire services in a week

Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2020

Dutch authorities have taken down 15 DDoS-for-hire services in a week, this is another success of law enforcement in the fight against cybercrime. An operation conducted by Dutch authorities last week has shut down 15 DDoS-for-hire services (aka DDoS booters or DDoS stressor), states a press release published by Dutch police.

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For the second time in a few days, Greek Government websites hit by DDoS attacks

Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2020

The Greek government announced that a DDoS cyber attack hit the official state websites of the prime minister, the national police and fire service and several important ministries. “[A denial-of-service or DDoS attack] led to the malfunction of certain websites.” SecurityAffairs – Greek Government, hacking).

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Experts warn of surge in DDoS attacks targeting education institutions

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Experts warn of a surge in the DDoS attacks against education institutions and the academic industry across the world. The DDoS attacks are causing severe issues to the targeted education institutions such as temporarily takedown of the network and online classes. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Massive DDoS attack brought down 25% Iranian Internet connectivity

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

ICT ministry officials confirmed that the Digital Fortress system repelled a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. A spokesperson for Iran’s Telecommunication Infrastructure Company, confirmed via Twitter that a DDoS attack had been “normalized” with the “intervention of the Dzhafa Shield.”

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Developer of DDoS Mirai based botnets sentenced to prison

Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2020

A man accused to have developed distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnets based on the Mirai botnet was sentenced to 13 months in federal prison. Schuchman compromised hundreds of thousands of IoT devices, including home routers and IP cameras, to create multiple DDoS IoT botnets that he rented to carry out the attacks.

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New Lucifer DDoS botnet targets Windows systems with multiple exploits

Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2020

A new botnet, tracked as Lucifer, appeared in the threat landscape, it leverages close to a dozen exploits to hack Windows systems. Upon infecting a system the bot turns it into a cryptomining client and could use it to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. SecurityAffairs – hacking, 5G). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Dutch police dismantled dual dark web market ‘Bohemia/Cannabia’

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2024

. “The Dutch police have conducted a cybercrime investigation into the large dual dark web market ‘Bohemia/Cannabia’ This was a dark web market where illegal goods, such as drugs, and DDoS attacks were offered. Some sellers on Bohemia advertised they were shipping the products from the Netherlands. million euros.

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New XORDDoS, Kaiji DDoS botnet variants target Docker servers

Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2020

Operators behind XORDDoS and Kaiji DDoS botnets recently started targeting Docker servers exposed online, Trend Micro warns. Trend Micro researchers reported that operators behind XORDDoS and Kaiji DDoS botnets recently started targeting Docker servers exposed online. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Docker). Pierluigi Paganini.

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New Zealand stock exchange (NZX) halted 2 days by DDoS attack

Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

New Zealand’s stock exchange (NZX) confirmed it was hit by a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack from abroad that knocked it offline two days. The DDoS attack impacted traders, anyway financial or personal information of the users was not accessed. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Dark web Empire Market still down after 3 days. DDoS attack or exit scam?

Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2020

The dark web marketplace Empire Market has been down for at least 3 days, two of the possible reasons, an exit scam or a prolonged DDoS attack. The cause is still unclear, someone blames a prolonged denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, while some users suspect an exit scam. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Empire). Pierluigi Paganini.

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FBI warns cyber actors abusing protocols as new DDoS attack vectors

Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2020

The FBI issued an alert last week warning about the discovery of new network protocols that have been exploited to launch large-scale DDoS attacks. The Federal Bureau of Investigation sent an alert last week warning about large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that abused new network protocols. continues the report.

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Hoaxcalls Botnet expands the target list and adds new DDoS capabilities

Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2020

The Hoaxcalls IoT botnet expanded the list of targeted devices and has added new distributed denial of service (DDoS) capabilities. The botnet was initially designed to launch DDoS attacks using UDP, DNS and HEX floods. Experts also noticed that the new variant implements 16 new DDoS capabilities. ” Radware concludes.

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How to Mitigate DDoS Attacks with Log Analytics

CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 30, 2021

Is your organization prepared to mitigate Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against mission-critical cloud-based applications? A DDoS attack is a cyber attack that uses bots to flood the targeted server or application with junk traffic, exhausting its resources and disrupting service for real human users. Source: Testbytes.

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T-Mobile suffered a major outage in the US allegedly caused by a massive DDoS attack

Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2020

Wireless carrier T-Mobile suffered a major outage in the United States, that impacted service at other carriers, due to a “massive” DDoS attack. Wireless carrier T-Mobile suffered a massive DDoS attack that caused a major outage in the United States that impacted service at other carriers due to a “massive” DDoS attack.

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DDoS-for-Hire Services operator sentenced to 13 months in prison

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

the administrator of DDoS-for-hire services was sentenced to 13 months in prison, and additional three years of supervised release. Usatyuk , a man that was operating several DDoS-for-hire services was sentenced to 13 months in prison, and additional three years of supervised release. Sergiy P. , ExoStresser. hours of network downtime.

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DDoS attacks in Q1 2022

SecureList

APRIL 25, 2022

The DDoS landscape in Q1 2022 was shaped by the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine: a significant part of all DDoS-related news concerned these countries. In mid-January, the website of Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko was hit by a DDoS attack, and the websites of a number of Ukrainian ministries were defaced. News overview.

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SANDMAN AND FINEPROXY BEHIND THE DDOS ATTACKS AGAINST TIMETV.LIVE

Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

Timetv.live is the latest Azeri news site targeted by Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks launched by Sandman threat actor, the attack took place on March 21, 2020. Just like many other DDoS attacks we have seen in the past against Azeri media, the attacker monitors the success of the floods using the HostTracker service.

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Ransom Gangs Emailing Victim Customers for Leverage

Krebs on Security

APRIL 5, 2021

“The company has been hacked, data has been stolen and will soon be released as the company refuses to protect its peoples’ data.” This letter is from the Clop ransomware gang, putting pressure on a recent victim named on Clop’s dark web shaming site. “Good day!

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The operator of DDoS-for-hire service pleads guilty

Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2019

Usatyuk developed and operated other DDoS-for-hire services with a co-conspirator between August 2015 and November 2017. The list of illegal DDoS-for-hire services operated by the man includes ExoStress.in (“ ExoStresser ”), QuezStresser.com, Betabooter.com (“ Betabooter ”), Databooter.com, Instabooter.com, Polystress.com, and Zstress.net.

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Law enforcement take down 15 DDoS-for-Hire services

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The Department of Justice (DoJ) announced that the FBI seized 15 domains associated with DDoS-for-hire services. The FBI has seized 15 domains associated with DDoS-for-hire services (aka booters or stressers ) that were used by their customers to launch powerful DDoS attacks. Authorities Take Down 15 DDoS-for-Hire Websites.

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A new DDoS technique abuses HTML5 Hyperlink Audit Ping in massive attacks

Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2019

Experts at Imperva discovered a new type of large-scale DDoS attack that abuses the HTML5 Ping-based hyperlink auditing feature. Experts at Imperva Vitaly Simonovich and Dima Bekerman observed a large-scale DDoS attack abusing the HTML5 Ping-based hyperlink auditing feature. ” reads the analysis published by Imperva.

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Hackers use hackers spreading tainted hacking tools in long-running campaign

Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2020

Who is hacking the hackers? Experts from Cybereason a mysterious hackers group is targeting other hackers by spreading tainted hacking tools. Experts from security firm Cybereason warn of a mysterious group of hackers that are distributing trojanized hacking tools on an almost daily basis for the past years. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Imperva mitigated DDoS attack generated 500 Million Packets per Second, the largest ever

Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2019

Imperva mitigated a SYN flood DDoS attack against one of its clients that exceeded 500 million packets per second, this is the largest ever. This attack was a SYN flood DDoS and it is the largest DDoS attack by packet volume ever observed. . Since today, the 2018 GitHub DDoS attack that peaked 1.35 or instance.

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A few dollars to bring down sites with new Bushido-based DDoS-for-hire service

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Security researchers at FortiGuard Labs have discovered a new DDoS-for-hire service called “ 0x-booter” built with leaked code that implements an easy to use interface. “ 0x-booter ” first appeared on October 17, 2018, a post published on Facebook advertises over 500 Gbps of power and 20,000 bots. ” .

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Security Service of Ukraine arrested a man operating a huge DDoS botnet

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Ukrainian police arrested a cybercriminal who controlled a botnet composed of 100,000 devices that was available for rent to launch DDoS attacks. Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has arrested a hacker who controlled a DDoS botnet composed of 100,000 devices that was available for rent. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime).

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Attackers are hacking NSC Linear eMerge E3 building access systems to launch DDoS attacks

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Researchers from SonicWall revealed that hackers are attempting to compromise Linear eMerge E3 smart building access systems to recruit them in a DDoS botnet. CVE-2019-7256 is actively being exploited by DDoS botnet operators. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. 06 and older. .

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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. Image: SentinelOne.com.

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Aquabot variant v3 targets Mitel SIP phones

Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2025

A new variant of the Mirai-based botnet Aquabot targets vulnerable Mitel SIP phones to recruit them into a DDoS botnet. Aquabot is a Mirai-based botnet designed for DDoS attacks. They often claim it is for DDoS mitigation testing, but experts pointed out that it spreads Mirai malware and is used for real attacks.

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Duke-Cohan sentenced to three years in prison due to false bomb threats and DDoS

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2018

The British teenager George Duke-Cohan (19) has been sentenced to three years in prison due to false bomb threats and carrying out DDoS attacks. The team was offering a DDoS-for-hire service that has many similarities with the booter implemented by the popular Lizard Squad hacking crew. Security Affairs – cybercrime, DDoS).

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Orcus RAT Author Charged in Malware Scheme

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

An advertisement for Orcus RAT. net, the forum where Revesz principally advertised his software. In July 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published a story identifying a Toronto man as the author of the Orcus RAT , a software product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015.

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Massive DDos attack hit Telegram, company says most of junk traffic is from China

Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2019

Encrypted messaging service Telegram was hit by a major DDoS attack apparently originated from China, likely linked to the ongoing political unrest in Hong Kong. We’re currently experiencing a powerful DDoS attack, Telegram users in the Americas and some users from other countries may experience connection issues. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Brazil expert discovers Oracle flaw that allows massive DDoS attacks

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

million servers running the RPCBIND service from being used in amplified DDoS attacks. The data showed that a DDoS attack was in progress, coming from port 111 of several servers, all from other countries. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Securi ty Affairs – Oracle, DDoS).

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KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Near-Record 6.3 Tbps DDoS

Owners of DDoS-for-Hire Service vDOS Get 6 Months Community Service

Trending Sources

Notorious Malware, Spam Host “Prospero” Moves to Kaspersky Lab

Silence Hacking Crew threatens Australian banks of DDoS attacks

KrebsOnSecurity Hit By Huge New IoT Botnet “Meris”

Who’s Behind the Seized Forums ‘Cracked’ & ‘Nulled’?

A powerful DDoS attack hit Hungarian banks and telecoms services

UK Ad Campaign Seeks to Deter Cybercrime

AWS mitigated largest DDoS attack ever of 2.3 Tbps

Akamai mitigated the largest ever PPS DDoS attack

German encrypted email service Tutanota suffers DDoS attacks

Google mitigated a 2.54 Tbps DDoS attack in 2017, the largest DDoS ever seen

The Dutch police took down 15 DDoS-for-hire services in a week

For the second time in a few days, Greek Government websites hit by DDoS attacks

Experts warn of surge in DDoS attacks targeting education institutions

Massive DDoS attack brought down 25% Iranian Internet connectivity

Developer of DDoS Mirai based botnets sentenced to prison

New Lucifer DDoS botnet targets Windows systems with multiple exploits

Dutch police dismantled dual dark web market ‘Bohemia/Cannabia’

New XORDDoS, Kaiji DDoS botnet variants target Docker servers

New Zealand stock exchange (NZX) halted 2 days by DDoS attack

Dark web Empire Market still down after 3 days. DDoS attack or exit scam?

FBI warns cyber actors abusing protocols as new DDoS attack vectors

Hoaxcalls Botnet expands the target list and adds new DDoS capabilities

How to Mitigate DDoS Attacks with Log Analytics

T-Mobile suffered a major outage in the US allegedly caused by a massive DDoS attack

DDoS-for-Hire Services operator sentenced to 13 months in prison

DDoS attacks in Q1 2022

SANDMAN AND FINEPROXY BEHIND THE DDOS ATTACKS AGAINST TIMETV.LIVE

Ransom Gangs Emailing Victim Customers for Leverage

The operator of DDoS-for-hire service pleads guilty

Law enforcement take down 15 DDoS-for-Hire services

A new DDoS technique abuses HTML5 Hyperlink Audit Ping in massive attacks

Hackers use hackers spreading tainted hacking tools in long-running campaign

Imperva mitigated DDoS attack generated 500 Million Packets per Second, the largest ever

A few dollars to bring down sites with new Bushido-based DDoS-for-hire service

Security Service of Ukraine arrested a man operating a huge DDoS botnet

Attackers are hacking NSC Linear eMerge E3 building access systems to launch DDoS attacks

Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Aquabot variant v3 targets Mitel SIP phones

Duke-Cohan sentenced to three years in prison due to false bomb threats and DDoS

Orcus RAT Author Charged in Malware Scheme

Massive DDos attack hit Telegram, company says most of junk traffic is from China

Brazil expert discovers Oracle flaw that allows massive DDoS attacks

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