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 ...

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.

A hybrid DDoS botnet known for turning vulnerable Windows devices into Monero cryptomining bots is now also scanning for and infecting Linux systems. While the botnet's authors named it Satan DDoS, ...