The size and scale of DDoS attacks are rapidly increasing thanks to free tools which eradicate the need for technical knowledge, researchers say. According to Arbor Networks, over the first six months ...

Last week's distributed denial of service attack in the US against domain name services provider Dynamic Network Services is more likely to have been the work of "script kiddies", and not state actors ...

Researchers at Flashpoint pointed a finger of blame at “script kiddies” for the huge IoT-based DDoS attack that made parts of the internet inaccessible last Friday. In fact, the primary target may ...

The massive DDoS attack that disrupted the internet address-lookup service Dyn last week was perhaps pulled off by a script kiddie targeting PlayStation Network and using Mirai malware to assemble a ...

Researchers at Flashpoint said Friday’s DDoS attack against DNS provider Dyn was likely the work of script kiddies and not advanced attackers. New research on the source of Friday’s DDoS attack ...

Proof-of-concept code to run massive DDoS attacks using unsecured Memcached servers has been published online this week, along with a ready-made list of over 17,000 IP addresses belonging to ...

Security company Flashpoint said in a blog post Tuesday that the social and technical indicators of Friday's distributed denial of service attack – which took down more than 1,200 websites – reveal ...

The attacks that recently disrupted website operations at Bank of America and at least five other major US banks used compromised Web servers to flood their targets with above-average amounts of ...