DDoS Threats & Security Attacks: DDoS Reports & Cyber Security Threats

The customer is a religious entity which was targeted by an hacktivist group for its “doctrine” and “concepts”. According to some sources, the attack also appears to have been triggered by a security firm report explaining it was able to protect the customer from DDoS attacks.The attack lasted three days and was comprised of five attack vectors; one of the attack vectors was particularly exotic using a HTTP fingerprinting attack vector.

March 20, 2012 02:00 PM Attack Report

Recently, a new DDOS attack tool was introduced dubbed as HOIC – High Orbit Ion Cannon. Although developed for testing purposes (according to the developer disclaimer)this tool is evidently used maliciously in the wild. HOIC is running as windows executables and has GUI control.

December 31, 2011 01:00 PM Attack Tool

Dirt Jumper (previously known as RussKill) is a very popular Distributed Denial of Service Bot being heavily used in the DDOS-for-hire business online. By visiting underground forums, one can find many variants and versions of Dirt Jumper offered for sale. Since the source code for different versions of Dirt Jumper can now be found for free in some underground forums, Dirt Jumper continues to evolve and over time many versions and variants have come into play.

January 31, 2011 07:00 PM Attack Tool