Webpage capture site Archive.today was caught weaponizing its visitors via a hidden script to launch a distributed denial of ...

The massive DDoS attack that disrupted the internet address-lookup service Dyn last week was perhaps pulled off by a script kiddie targeting PlayStation Network and using Mirai malware to assemble a ...

Researchers at Flashpoint said Friday’s DDoS attack against DNS provider Dyn was likely the work of script kiddies and not advanced attackers. New research on the source of Friday’s DDoS attack ...

Researchers at Flashpoint pointed a finger of blame at “script kiddies” for the huge IoT-based DDoS attack that made parts of the internet inaccessible last Friday. In fact, the primary target may ...

Late last year, an attacker known as "Matrix" orchestrated a large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by exploiting vulnerabilities in Internet of Things (IoT) devices. By leveraging ...

Security company Flashpoint said in a blog post Tuesday that the social and technical indicators of Friday's distributed denial of service attack – which took down more than 1,200 websites – reveal ...

For hackers seeking to maximize chaos, so-called denial-of-service attacks that knock targets offline with waves off junk traffic are typically more of a blunt cudgel than a weapon of mass destruction ...

Internet criminals are sidestepping the need to launch DDoS attack from large networks of malware-compromised bot PCs by using simpler server ‘booter shells’, mitigation firm Prolexic has warned.