As part of an ongoing initiative targeting computer attack “booter” services, the Justice Department today announced the court-authorized seizure of 13 internet domains associated with these DDoS-for-hire services. The seizures this week are the third wave of U.S. law enforcement actions against prominent booter services.| www.justice.gov
On September 22, 2016, this site was forced offline for nearly four days after it was hit with “Mirai,” a malware strain that enslaves poorly secured Internet of Things (IoT) devices like wireless routers and security cameras into a botnet…| krebsonsecurity.com
The source code that powers the "Internet of Things" (IoT) botnet responsible for launching the historically large distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against KrebsOnSecurity last month has been publicly released, virtually guaranteeing that the Internet will soon be flooded with attacks…| krebsonsecurity.com
John Gilmore, an American entrepreneur and civil libertarian, once famously quipped that “the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it”. This notion undoubtedly rings true for those who see national governments as the principal threats to free speech.…| krebsonsecurity.com
Overview In August 2024, XLab observed a premeditated large-scale DDoS attack targeting the distribution platforms of the chinese game Black Myth: Wukong, namely Steam and Perfect World.This attack operation was divided into four waves, with the attackers carefully selecting the peak online hours of gamers in various time zones| 奇安信 X 实验室
