Hacker News with Generative AI: DDoS Attacks

Law enforcement takes down 'DDoS-for-Hire' sites in Operation PowerOFF (scworld.com)
The hackers got more time off this Christmas as a present from law enforcement: Europol this week coordinated a takedown with 15 countries worldwide that seized 27 of the most popular distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) platforms and took them offline.

Cybersecurity, Law Enforcement, DDoS Attacks

42 points by LinuxBender 34 days ago | 10 comments

Korea arrests CEO for adding DDoS feature to satellite receivers (bleepingcomputer.com)
South Korean police have arrested a CEO and five employees for manufacturing over 240,000 satellite receivers pre-loaded or later updated to include DDoS attack functionality at a purchaser's request.

Cybersecurity, South Korea, DDoS Attacks, Crime

13 points by sandwichsphinx 46 days ago | 0 comments

DDoS site Dstat.cc seized and two suspects arrested in Germany (bleepingcomputer.com)
The Dstat.cc DDoS review platform has been seized by law enforcement, and two suspects have been arrested after the service helped fuel distributed denial-of-service attacks for years.

Cybersecurity, Law Enforcement, DDoS Attacks

6 points by sandwichsphinx 78 days ago | 0 comments

Cloudflare auto-mitigated world record 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack (cloudflare.com)
Since early September, Cloudflare's DDoS protection systems have been combating a month-long campaign of hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks.

Cybersecurity, DDoS Attacks, Cloudflare, Cloud Computing

49 points by beefman 107 days ago | 19 comments

Cloudflare auto-mitigated world record 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack (cloudflare.com)
Cloudflare's DDoS protection systems have been combating a month-long campaign of hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks.

Cybersecurity, DDoS Attacks, Cloudflare, Internet Security, Network Security

10 points by syck 108 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: Is it possible to avoid Bandwidth DDoS attacks without Cloudflare? (ycombinator.com)
Hi. If I implement IP-based rate-limiting in my web application hosted on a VPS, it can help in preventing over-usage of paid API etc. But what if someone tries to exhaust the bandwidth that the VPS host allocates to my box, by simply making HTTP requests en masse? Even if I return 429 for all of them, my bandwidth is still gone, right? Is there any solution for this apart from seeking protection of Cloudflare and the like?

Security, DDoS Attacks, VPS, Web Development, Networking

13 points by theanonymousone 114 days ago | 9 comments

The complete DDoS guide for founders (onboardbase.com)

Cybersecurity, DDoS Attacks, Startups

12 points by lexokoh 152 days ago | 0 comments

DDoS Attack On X (twitter.com)

Cybersecurity, Twitter, DDoS Attacks

19 points by FriedPickles 158 days ago | 10 comments

FBI, CISA remind US voters that DDoS attacks can't touch election systems (theregister.com)

Cybersecurity, Elections, Government, DDoS Attacks

7 points by LinuxBender 167 days ago | 1 comments

Threat actors quick to weaponize PoC exploits; 6.8% of all internet traffic DDoS (bleepingcomputer.com)