In the movie The Manchurian Candidate, two soldiers are kidnapped and brainwashed into sleeper agents. Later the soldiers become unwitting assassins when activated by a handler. Sound familiar? It ...

Threat actors have discovered a way to bounce and amplify junk web traffic against Citrix ADC networking equipment to launch DDoS attacks. While details about the attackers are still unknown, victims ...

Researchers have identified an alarming new trend in DDoS attacks that target packet inspection and content filtering devices to attain enormous 6,533% amplification levels. With such an amplification ...

Netlab, the networking security division of Chinese security firm Qihoo 360, said it discovered this week a new fledgling malware operation that is currently infecting Android devices for the purpose ...

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks certainly come to mind when considering cyberattacks that can cause widespread outages and service disruptions. These insidious attacks are on the rise, ...

Over 100,000 devices have a misconfigured service called multicast DNS that accepts requests from the Internet and can potentially be abused to amplify distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

Singapore, 8 th May, 2024 - New data from Nexusguard’s DDoS Statistical Trends Report 2024 reveals bad actors are shifting DDoS tactics. Computers and servers became the primary target of attacks, ...

A new DDoS botnet propagates via the Android Debug Bridge and uses Tor to hide its activity. Researchers are warning a new botnet is recycling the Mirai malware framework and is now targeting Android ...

More than 10 million devices hooked up to the internet of things (IoT) were hacked in a Friday attack that slowed a huge swath of the internet to a crawl. The next time that happens, your device could ...

Aisuru smashed previous records with a 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack. It appeared to have focused on telecommunications providers. Seemingly safe and small devices can be weaponized for massive cyberattacks.

Attackers have compromised more than 25,000 digital video recorders and CCTV cameras and are using them to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against websites. One such attack, ...