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FCC Admits Site DDoS Claims Were False
August 11, 2018 By aatech

The FCC’s attempt to maintain that its comments page crashed last May as a result of a co-ordinated DDoS attack was actually built on falsehoods, it has admitted. The regulator was forced to make the admission ahead of an inspector general report into the case due to be released shortly. The comments section crashed after millions […]

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Hackers hired for year-long DDoS attack against man’s former employer
November 15, 2017 By aatech

US federal prosecutors in Minnesota have charged a 46-year-old man with hiring a cyberhitman – well, technically, three hacking services – to launch a year-long campaign of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on his former employer. Prosecutors say that John Kelsey Gammell, 46, contacted seven DDoS services and paid monthly subscriptions to three of […]

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DDoS Attacks Become More Frequent in Q3, with Linux Dominating
November 14, 2017 By aatech

The share of Linux botnets is continuing to grow—accounting for 70% of attacks in Q3, compared to 51% in Q2. According to Kaspersky Lab’s Q3 2017 DDoS Intelligence Report, experts have continued to see an increase in the number of countries where resources have been targeted, with 98 countries subjected to DDoS attacks in the […]

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DDoS Attacks on the Rise Again
August 24, 2017 By aatech

DDoS attacks rose again in Q2 for the first time in almost a year as the black hats returned to tried-and-tested tools and techniques including PBot, Mirai and Domain Generation Algorithms (DGA), according to Akamai. The cloud delivery provider crunched data collected from over 230,000 servers in more than 1600 networks to compile its State […]

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