DDoS scrubbing service ironic target of massive attack it was built to prevent — hit with 1.5 billion packets per second from more than 11,000 distributed networks

A DDoS scrubbing service has been hit with a massive attack from over 11,000 distributed networks, with peak traffic of 1.5 ...

Cloudflare just faced a self-inflicted DDoS-like outage from API bug it coded itself

The bug, according to Lianza and Madruga, caused "repeated, unnecessary calls to the Tenant Service API." On accident, ...
SDxCentral

Cloudflare accidentally DDoS'ed itself in dashboard update gone wrong

The incident, first spotted by Daniel Lockyer on X, was caused by a bug in the provider's dashboard, which led to continuous, ...
Homeland Security Today

Global Crackdown Against DDoS Services Shuts Down Most Popular Platforms

Some fifty of the world’s biggest booter services, designed to enable users to launch crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) against critical online infrastructure, have been taken down as ...
The Register on MSN

Anti-DDoS outfit walloped by record packet flood

FastNetMon says 1.5 Gpps deluge from hijacked routers, IoT kit nearly drowned scrubbing shop A DDoS mitigation provider was ...
ZDNet

Ubisoft sues operators of four DDoS-for-hire services

Gaming company Ubisoft has filed a lawsuit against five individuals for operating four DDoS-for-hire (DDoS booter) services that were used to launch DDoS attacks on Rainbow Six Siege multiplayer ...
Redmondmag.com

Inside Azure DDoS Protection: Scalable Defense Against Modern Attacks

Azure expert Aidan Finn previews how Microsoft's cloud-scale DDoS Protection detects, mitigates and monitors attacks ahead of ...
Bleeping Computer

DDoS booters now abuse DTLS servers to amplify attacks

DDoS-for-hire services are now actively abusing misconfigured or out-of-date Datagram Transport Layer Security (D/TLS) servers to amplify Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. DTLS is a ...
ZDNet

Dutch police take down 15 DDoS services in a week

In a press release published today, Dutch police said they have successfully taken down 15 DDoS-for-hire services in the span of a week, as part of one of their most successful crackdowns against ...
Network World

DDoS-for-hire services thrive despite closure of major marketplace

The closure of a major online marketplace for paid distributed denial-of-service attacks appears to have done little to slow down the illegal activity. In late October, HackForums.net shut down its ...
Redmond Magazine

Azure DDoS Protection Users Can Validate Compliance via Red Button Attack Services

Microsoft's Azure DDoS Protection customers can launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) test attacks on their use of Azure services via Red Button's services, Microsoft announced on Friday. Red ...
Finextra

Financial services top target for DDOS attacks

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. The report, DDoS: Here to Stay revealed particularly concerning findings ...