Internet criminals are sidestepping the need to launch DDoS attack from large networks of malware-compromised bot PCs by using simpler server ‘booter shells’, mitigation firm Prolexic has warned.

Late last year, an attacker known as "Matrix" orchestrated a large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by exploiting vulnerabilities in Internet of Things (IoT) devices. By leveraging ...

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A Russian script kiddie using little more than publicly available malware tools and exploits targeting weak credentials and configurations has assembled a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet ...

Recipients of new game consoles this holiday season were robbed of their holiday gaming when a group of internet miscreants known as Lizard Squad launched a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS ...

LizardSquad, the group who knocked Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network offline over Christmas, subsequently revealed that their motive was to publicise their ‘booter’ site, designed to allow paying ...

In 2015, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks were estimated to represent a significant portion of the $15.4 million per year cybercrime cost to average American firms (taken in a study from ...