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Blizzard Entertainment Hit With Weekend DDoS Attack

15

Aug

2017

Blizzard Entertainment reported a crippling DDoS attack over the weekend creating chronic latency and connection issues for players of games Overwatch, World of Warcraft and others. The DDoS attack has since subsided, according to Blizzard, but users are still grousing on Twitter over lingering connection issues and feature unavailability within some games.

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The cost of launching a DDoS attack

23

Mar

2017

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is one of the most popular tools in the cybercriminal arsenal. The motives behind such attacks can vary – from cyber-hooliganism to extortion. There have been cases where criminal groups have threatened their victims with a DDoS attack unless the latter paid 15 bitcoins (more than $5,000). Often, a DDoS […]

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CryptoCoinsNews offers bounty for perpetrator of DDoS attack

24

Nov

2015

CryptoCoinsNews (CCN) and its sister-site Hacked are offering a 5 Bitcoin bounty for information on the extortionist that targeted both sites in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, Monday morning.Those looking to collect should provide information, including the extortionist’s ID(s), location (address), similar attacks on other sites or companies, and other relevant info

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