Netscout researchers identify more than 14,000 existing servers that can be abused by ‘the general attack population’ to flood organizations’ networks with traffic. Cybercriminals can exploit ...

Attackers are compromising Linux and Windows systems to install a new malware program designed for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, according to researchers from the Polish ...

Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) servers are now being abused by DDoS-for-hire services to amplify Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. The Microsoft RDP service is a built-in Windows ...

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach Newswire – 14 May 2024 – New data from Nexusguard’s DDoS Statistical Trends Report 2024 reveals bad actors are shifting DDoS tactics. Computers and servers became the ...

A new cross-platform malware botnet named 'MCCrash' is infecting Windows, Linux, and IoT devices to conduct distributed denial of service attacks on Minecraft servers. The botnet was discovered by ...

Singapore, 8 th May, 2024 - New data from Nexusguard’s DDoS Statistical Trends Report 2024 reveals bad actors are shifting DDoS tactics. Computers and servers became the primary target of attacks, ...

SafeBreach researchers demonstrate how attackers can crash Windows domain controllers and build a botnet using unauthenticated RPC and LDAP vulnerabilities. At DEF CON 33, security researchers ...

Microsoft researchers have discovered a hybrid Windows-Linux botnet that uses a highly efficient technique to take down Minecraft servers and performs distributed denial-of-service attacks on other ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Late last year, an attacker known as "Matrix" orchestrated a large-scale distributed ...

A Russian script kiddie using little more than publicly available malware tools and exploits targeting weak credentials and configurations has assembled a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet ...

Attackers exploited a vulnerability in a popular video-sharing site to hijack users’ browsers for use in a large-scale distributed denial-of-service attack, according to researchers from Web security ...