Tag: DDoS
Short DDoS bursts doubled even as terabit floods collapsed
Cloudflare absorbed 18.2 million network-layer attacks in Q3, and the fastest growth came from small barrages short enough to slip…
Rented botnet drains victims’ AI credits with help from Grok
A new Windows botnet called x47.c uses xAI's Grok model to pick its next action and burns through victims' paid…
FBI seizes NightmareStresser domains in booter service crackdown
A service that rented out denial-of-service floods for three years is offline, but the market it served is not.
Third DDoS wave pounds Norway’s shared government login services
Norway's shared government infrastructure takes its third DDoS hit in months, disrupting login services nationwide.
CDN Tsunami turns HTTP/3 edge into 350x flood amplifier
New research shows CDN protocol conversion can amplify a low-bandwidth attack stream up to 350x at the origin.
Kimwolf botnet evolves to mimic browsers with HTTP/2 flood attacks
Unit 42 documents Kimwolf v7, a rebuild that hides DDoS floods behind browser fingerprints and Ethereum domains.
TuxBot v3 IoT botnet shows signs of AI-assisted development
The TuxBot v3 Evolution botnet framework was built with help from an LLM, but the AI left a safety disclaimer…
Spain arrests suspected hacker linked to Cyber Army of Russia Reborn
Spanish authorities arrest suspected hacker linked to pro-Russian Cyber Army of Russia Reborn