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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 [...]

GitHub targeted by massive Chinese DDoS attack

By Duncan Riley | Mar 29 2015

Git repository hosting service GitHub Inc., has been under a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) since Thursday with China named as the culprit. GitHub said in a blog post that the DDoS attack was the largest in their history and explained that it involves a wide combination of attack vectors. The [...]

Infographic: Black Lotus report reveals DDoS is common, leads to customer churn

By Kyt Dotson | Mar 3 2015

In 2014, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks continued to be a massive concern for numerous Internet services. This was especially signaled by the Christmas Day siege of Xbox Live and PlayStation Network by infamous Internet mayhem crew Lizard Squad. A survey by DDoS attack mitigation service Black Lotus shows that while DDoS [...]

Lizard Squad is back: Xbox Live and Daybreak Games Company face DDoS battering

By Kyt Dotson | Feb 17 2015

The great Christmas Day siege of Xbox and PlayStation doesn’t seem to be enough for notorious Internet mayhem group Lizard Squad who have continued their campaign of denial of service attacks against gaming companies. The crew is back and has claimed credit for DDoS, or distributed denial of service, attacks against Xbox [...]

Arbor report: Hacktivist and gamer groups are major sources of DDoS attacks

By Saroj Kar | Feb 2 2015

A new report says that the number of DDoS web attacks involving gamers and hacktivists has greatly increased in the past decade or so. These attacks typically involve attacking websites with massive surges of data and knocking them offline. The report, compiled byArbor Networks and cited by BBC News, examines 10 years of distributed denial [...]

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