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Cybercriminals Abuse Mobile Applications to Launch DDOS Attacks

15

Jan

2014

Distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack protection solutions provider Prolexic has published its Global DDOS Attack Report for the fourth quarter of 2013. The company says that cybercriminals are targeting enterprises with DDOS attacks that rely on mobile applications. The prevalence of mobile devices…

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NTP Protocol Abused in DDOS Attacks on Gaming Servers

09

Jan

2014

In December 2013, Symantec warned that cybercriminals were increasingly abusing the Network Time Protocol (NTP) for distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks. Experts say that this type of attack was also used to disrupt popular online gaming services in the first days of 2014. The list of targeted games includes World…

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Unknown Cybercriminals Launch DDOS Attacks Against 3 Popular BitTorrent Sites

06

Jan

2014

For the past few days, private BitTorrent websites What.cd, PassthePopcorn.me and Broadcasthe.net have been offline due to distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks being launched against their systems. No one has taken credit for the attacks. The representatives of the targeted trackers have told TorrentFreak that they have no idea who is behind the cyberattacks. What.cd operators […]

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