As anyone who regularly games online can attest, DDoS (dedicated denial of service) attacks are an irritatingly common occurrence on the internet. Drawing on the combined digital might of a ...

Law enforcement has dismantled a major DDoS-for-hire operation, and arrested four individuals suspected of running it. In a press release, the international police force said the arrests were part of ...

Security researchers found a new DDoS-for-hire service built with leaked code, that offers easy and cheap access to sufficient power to knock down most targets. Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) ...

The IoT botnet IoTroop has amassed 10,000 to 20,000 devices and has another 2 million hosts that have been identified as potential botnet nodes, according to Arbor's Security Engineering & Response ...

A DDoS botnet first discovered in 2015 has ramped up activity during the summer and is responsible for over 900 DDoS attacks during the past four months, the biggest of which reached 45 Gbps. Named ...

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.