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DDoS attacks targeting traditional telecom systems

31

Jul

2012

DDoS affects many types of systems. Some have used the term TDoS to refer to DDoS or DoS attacks on telecommunications systems (Telecommunications Denial of Service). This is just another application for a DDoS attack, and was mentioned in 2010 by law enforcement and since discussed on a variety of blogs. Typical motives can be […]

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DDoS Attacks: The Zemra Bot

27

Jun

2012

Symantec has become aware of a new Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) crimeware bot known as “Zemra” and detected by Symantec as Backdoor.Zemra. Lately, this threat has been observed performing denial-of-service attacks against organizations with the purpose of extortion. Zemra first appeared on underground forums in May 2012 at a cost of ?100.Figure 1. Zemra […]

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MP-DDoser: A rapidly improving DDoS threat

07

Jun

2012

This blog post is the fifth installment in our ongoing series of articles surveying the crypto systems used by different DDoS-capable malware families. Today’s topic is MP-DDoser, also known as “IP-Killer” As far as we are aware, MP-DDoser was first documented in February 2012 by Arbor analyst Curt Wilson in his pioneering survey of modern […]

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