Last week the Dyn DNS DDoS took out most of the East coast US websites including monsters like Spotify, Twitter, Netflix, Github, Heroku and many more. Hopefully it wasn’t because I shared the Mirai source code and some script kiddies got hold of it and decided to take half of the US websites out. A […]
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Mirai Source Code for DDoS Malware Bonet Leaked
So there’s been some HUGE DDoS attacks going on lately, up to 620Gbps and the Mirai source code DDoS Malware bonet has been fingered – with the source code also being leaked. It’s spreading like wildfire too, and the scariest thought? All that was really needed to construct it was a telnet scanner and a […]
Two Israeli Men Arrested For Running VDoS-s.com DDoS Service
DDoS or Booter services have been around for a while, but VDoS-s.com was a particularly slick (and shameless) one with a content marketing strategy and active social media accounts. Two Israeli men were arrested for running the service after ironically being hacked by a security researcher. They called their service a ‘Stresser’ and claimed to […]
UFONet – Open Redirect DDoS Tool
UFONet is an open redirect DDoS tool designed to launch attacks against a target, using insecure redirects in third party web applications, like a botnet. Obviously, only for testing purposes. The tool abuses OSI Layer 7-HTTP to create/manage ‘zombies’ and to conduct different attacks using; GET/POST, multi-threading, proxies, origin spoofing methods, cache evasion techniques, etc. […]
Linode DDoS Attack – Merry Xmas Sysadmins
So the Linode DDoS attack – seems like this xmas has been a terrible time for sys admins, along with what happened to Steam and A Small Orange (100+ hours down). A whole lot of work during the most drunken holiday of the year, not fun. And yes it affected me too, work wise everything […]