Spamhaus: Uptick in Tor-using botnets may force ISPs to block all Tor traffic
2016 was the year of ransomware, says non-profit spam-fighting project, Spamhaus.
2016 was the year of ransomware, says non-profit spam-fighting project, Spamhaus.
Over 23,000 Web servers were infected with a backdoor called CryptoPHP that's bundled with pirated themes and plug-ins for popular content management systems.
Lucian Constantin | 28 Nov | Read more
On 2 August, apparently for the first time ever, a hacking group coordinated a number of different reflection-style DDoS attacks against a single data centre, the mitigation firm involved, NSFOCUS, has confirmed.
John E. Dunn | 27 Aug | Read more
An antispam organization is pushing for quick law enforcement action against five people it alleges took part in one of the largest cyberattacks on record that caused Internet outages throughout Europe early last year.
Jeremy Kirk | 08 Jul | Read more
The teen arrested last year in connection with the huge DNS reflection DDoS attack against anti-spam outfit Spamhaus has been charged, the National Crime Agency (NCA) has said.
John E Dunn | 01 Jul | Read more
The Spamhaus Project will soon publish two new data feeds intended to prevent people from being lured to malware-infected websites and domains.
Jeremy Kirk | 16 Jun | Read more
Criminals have started using a new DDoS toolkit that offers a simple shortcut for criminals interested in using DNS reflection attacks to pound targets with vast amounts of traffic, mitigation firm Prolexic has warned.
John E Dunn | 14 Feb | Read more
This week's gigantic DDoS attack on mitigation firm CloudFlare was made possible by weak configuration of a relatively small number of NTP servers, including some inside the intended target, the firm's co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince has complained.
John E Dunn | 14 Feb | Read more
The structure of the Metropolitan Police's now-dissolved Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) was a barrier to preventing some cyber crimes, according to an e-crime expert.
Anh Nguyen | 27 Nov | Read more
The shuddering effectiveness of the DNS reflection DDoS attack on Spamhaus this March is a forewarning of a growing criminal interest in the technique, new figures from mitigation firm Prolexic have suggested.
John E Dunn | 29 Oct | Read more
Google's Ideas 'think/do tank' is to publish a daily visualisation of global DDoS attacks and trends based on data fed to it by mitigation firm Arbor Networks.
John E Dunn | 22 Oct | Read more
The average size of DDoS attacks is still climbing with the number breaching 20Gbps around four times the level seen a year ago, according to Arbor Networks.
John E Dunn | 18 Oct | Read more
Police secretly arrested a London-based teen last April in connection with the huge DDoS attack on anti-spam organisation Spamhaus, it has been confirmed.
John E Dunn | 01 Oct | Read more
Hacktivist group Izz ad-Dim al-Qassam Cyber Fighters's strategy said to be driving up raw number of attacks and depressing their duration
John P. Mello | 31 Jul | Read more
Average DDoS attack sizes have climbed above the 2Gbps mark for the first time, mitigation firm Arbor Networks has reported after crunching figures from its Atlas system for the first half of 2013.
John E Dunn | 30 Jul | Read more