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Wargames-style map shows ongoing internet attacks
The Norse Map is a Wargames-style visualization of ongoing attacks on servers around the world. Though it shows honeypots rather than actual private or government targets, the result is a live...
View ArticleGoogle launches Project Shield, to protect news sites from DDoS attacks
Insecure desktop operating systems (and even server/CMS vulnerabilities) has led to the creation of enormous, powerful botnets comprised of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of...
View ArticleWeb security company breached, client list (including KKK) dumped, hackers...
Newport Beach based Staminus Communications offered DDoS protection and other security services to its clients; early this morning, their systems went down and a dump of their internal files were...
View ArticleDDoSers sell attacks for $5 on Fivver
Many years ago, EFF co-founder John Gilmore and I were discussing the prevalence of botnets, which are commonly used to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that overwhelm websites with...
View ArticleSecurity economics: black market price of hacked servers drops to $6
A new Kaspersky report analyzes an online hacker marketplace called xDedic, where access to 70,000 hacked servers -- multiplayer game servers, billing servers, cellular/ISP servers, dating servers,...
View ArticleOne million machines, including routers, used to attack banks
Akamai's Ryan Barnett reports on two attacks against the service's financial customers last year: attackers used nearly 1m compromised systems to attempt to log in to users' accounts using logins and...
View ArticleHow it feels to be under DDoS attack
At this week's O'Reilly Velocity conference in Santa Clara, Artur Bergman, founder and CTO, told the story of how he got involved in starting a denial-of-service-resistant CDN -- a personal story...
View ArticleAlways-on CCTVs with no effective security harnessed into massive,...
When security firm Sucuri investigated the source of a 50,000-request/second DDoS attack on a jewelry shop, they discovered to their surprise that the attacks originated on a botnet made of hacked...
View ArticleUPDATED: Wikileaks dumps years' worth of email from Turkey's ruling party
Update: This dump turned out to primarily consist of public mailing list traffic; Wikileaks promotions of the dump included links to spreadsheets containing thousands of Turkish women's sensitive...
View ArticleA powerful attacker is systematically calibrating an internet-killing tool
Someone -- possibly the government of China -- has launched a series of probing attacks on the internet's most critical infrastructure, using carefully titrated doses of denial-of-service to precisely...
View ArticleThe democratization of censorship: when anyone can kill as site as...
On the eve of the Stuxnet attacks, half a decade ago, I found myself discussing what it all meant with William Gibson (I'd just interviewed him on stage in London), and I said, "I think the most...
View ArticleYour next DDoS attack, brought to you courtesy of the IoT
The internet is reeling under the onslaught of unprecedented denial-of-service attacks, the sort we normally associate with powerful adversaries like international criminal syndicates and major...
View ArticleThe malware that's pwning the Internet of Things is terrifyingly amateurish
Following the release of the sourcecode for the Mirai botnet, which was used to harness DVRs, surveillance cameras and other Internet of Things things into one of the most powerful denial-of-service...
View ArticleThe clumsy, amateurish IoT botnet has now infected devices in virtually all...
Mirai, the clumsily written Internet of Things virus that harnessed so many devices in an attack on journalist Brian Krebs that it overloaded Akamai, has now spread to devices in either 164 or 177...
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Major U.S. websites inaccessible in "cyber attack" on domain name system
Much of the web struggled to stay on its feet today, with outages bringing down U.S.-based services and sites such as Amazon, Twitter and Netflix. A massive distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack...
View ArticleInternet-destroying outages were caused by "amateurish" IoT malware
Some of the internet's most popular, well-defended services -- including Twitter -- were knocked offline yesterday by a massive denial-of-service attack that security experts are blaming on botnets...
View ArticleInternet of Things botnet threatens to knock the entire country of Liberia...
The various Mirai botnets, which use "clumsy, amateurish code to take over even more clumsy and amateurish CCTVs, routers, PVRs and other Internet of Things devices, have been responsible for some...
View ArticleWinter Denial of Service attack knocks out heating in Finnish homes
A DDoS attack that incidentally affected the internet connections for at least two housing blocks in Lappeenranta, Finland caused their heating systems to shut down, leaving their residents without...
View ArticleTwo hackers are selling DDoS attacks from 400,000 IoT devices infected with...
The Mirai worm -- first seen attacking security journalist Brian Krebs with 620gbps floods, then taking down Level 3, Dyn and other hardened, well-provisioned internet giants, then spreading to every...
View ArticleDDoS attack on Finnish automated buildings disabled heating controls
When the heat goes out during Finnish winter, it's a matter of life and death, so when two automated buildings controlled by Valtia systems suffered DDoS attacks that shut off the heat, Finns were...
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