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Great story: Bitcoin exchange BTCC stands firm against DDoS ransom hacker and wins

By Duncan Riley | Jan 6 2016

Bitcoin exchange BTCC Technology, Ltd. had an interesting time over the new year when it was targeted by a Bitcoin-for-DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack. But in a great story we don’t see often enough, the company held steady and won, complete with a hilarious ending. The company first came under DDoS [...]

Akamai: DDoS will expand attack scope on gaming and technology companies in 2016

By Kyt Dotson | Jan 4 2016

Nothing infuriates Internet users more than slow loading, buffering and other evidence of a sluggish network. On the forefront of making certain that the “data must flow” is Akamai Technologies, Inc., a powerful Content Delivery Network (CDN) and cloud provider. As a content provider, Akamai is on the forefront of protecting its [...]

Nexusguard: 2016 will be the year of proactive, shared defense against DDoS

By Kyt Dotson | Dec 31 2015

In 2015, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks were estimated to represent a significant portion of the $15.4 million per year cybercrime cost to average American firms (taken in a study from Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP). Looking to 2016, and acknowledging the trends of previous years, it’s apparent that DDoS has [...]

Unknown attackers strike DNS root name servers with massive DDoS

By Kyt Dotson | Dec 10 2015

On November 30 and December 1, 2015 unknown attackers unleashed two massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against many of the 13 DNS root name servers in what looked like an attempt to knock them offline. The reasons for this attack and the perpetrators are both still a mystery, as reported [...]

ProtonMail pays Bitcoin ransom to stop DDoS attack, then is attacked further

By Duncan Riley | Nov 9 2015

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks with extortion demands for payments in Bitcoin cryptocurrency to stop them are becoming more and more popular in 2015, but what happens if you give in and pay the ransom? Switzerland-based email service provider ProntonMail (Proton Technologies AG) has found out the hard way that paying [...]

Star Trek Online, Neverwinter Online struck by DDoS attacks twice in one day [UPDATED]

By Kyt Dotson | Sep 14 2015

Over the weekend video gamers who enjoy exploring the galaxy in Star Trek Online and fighting orcs with swords in Neverwinter Online found themselves briefly unable to do so. Some players described lag spiking so high that characters began “rubber banding”–or repeatedly teleporting back every time a player tries to move somewhere [...]

Lizard Squad throws DDoS tantrum over taunts from CEO of Daybreak Games

By Kyt Dotson | Jul 10 2015

“So I’m coming for you Julius.” These were the words of John Smedley, CEO of Daybreak Game Company (previously Sony Online Entertainment), when berating 17-year-old Julius “zeekill” Kivimaki on Twitter. The Finnish teen, who has apparent ties to Lizard Squad, was convicted over 50,000 counts of computer crime related charges, but given [...]

DDoS attack on GitHub evidence for the Great Cannon of China

By Kyt Dotson | Apr 10 2015

China is already well known for its nation-wide Internet filtering software dubbed The Great Firewall of China, but what is only coming to light is that China also may have a Great Cannon. According to a report posted on CitizenLab the Great Firewall of China may have been used to effect distributed [...]

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