Lizard Squad member, Zachary Buchta, was sentenced to three months in prison last week for his role in a “hacker-for-hire” service. Buchta who is 20 pleaded guilty in December 2017 for one count of conspiracy to commit damage to protected … [Read more...] about Lizard Squad Member Offers DDoS-for-Hire and is Jailed
DDoS History
Big Data Analysis and DDoS
Big data aims to offer an answer to the outdated nature of detection appliances by offering the ability to baseline based on network-wide data, which increases accuracy of detection. A machine learning approach allows for greater granularity of … [Read more...] about Big Data Analysis and DDoS
Traditional DDoS Mitigation Architecture
There are many types of DDoS protection. The essential traditional architecture for DDoS defense works as follows. Flow data, complementary BGP and SNMP data, all based on incoming traffic flow are sent to a detection appliance inside the network … [Read more...] about Traditional DDoS Mitigation Architecture
The Last Decade in DDoS
DDoS attacks have seen a huge explosion in size and scale over the last decade. The last three years alone have seen the largest DDoS attack in history milestone be repeatedly knocked down. One of the most interesting of these in terms of politics … [Read more...] about The Last Decade in DDoS
The Early Days of DDoS Protection & Mitigation – Part 3
The Early Days: 2004-2007 There were many radical shifts in scale to the Internet across this period. In 2004, the Internet2 backbone (Abilene) was upgraded from 2.5gb/sec to 10gb/sec. and was set to deploy the next generation Internet protocol, … [Read more...] about The Early Days of DDoS Protection & Mitigation – Part 3
The Early Days of DDoS Protection & Mitigation – Part 2
The Early Days: 2001-2003 Attackers across this period increasingly switched from being script kiddies fooling around like Mafiaboy to being part of a criminal organization. The implications for taking down a business network became increasingly … [Read more...] about The Early Days of DDoS Protection & Mitigation – Part 2
The Early Days of DDoS Protection & Mitigation – Part 1
The Early Days: 1995-2000 Business on the Internet didn’t really get going until 1995 when Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com and Pierre Omidyar began AuctionWeb, which would become eBay. There were very few defenses in place at that time, as the … [Read more...] about The Early Days of DDoS Protection & Mitigation – Part 1
The Mirai Copycats
On September 30, 2016, Mirai’s alleged author, nicknamed “Anna-senpai” (who we now know was Paras Jha from Farnwood, N.J.) released the Mirai source code on Hackforums, an infamous online hacking forum. Along with it, he wrote a post, announcing his … [Read more...] about The Mirai Copycats
The Demise of the Election Hacking Kelihos Botnet
Last April, the U.S. Justice Department was finally able to report that a suspect had been arrested in the Kelihos botnet case. Peter Yuryevich Levashov, a Russian citizen who allegedly ran the Kelihos botnet since at least 2010, was arrested in … [Read more...] about The Demise of the Election Hacking Kelihos Botnet
vDoS Booter Service and the Attack against Brian Krebs
Before Mirai came into the public eye, the FBI was working on a case involving two teens running a DDoS-for-hire service called vDOS. Two young Israeli men were using the massive vDOS botnet to offer a booter service, aimed at helping gamers knock … [Read more...] about vDoS Booter Service and the Attack against Brian Krebs
A Brief Timeline of DDoS Attacks
The primary threat to Internet services is the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. DDoS attacks have evolved over the last twenty years from a nuisance to a serious risk to governments and corporation continuity. They have also gone from … [Read more...] about A Brief Timeline of DDoS Attacks
Why Do People Perform DDoS Attacks?
Last September, independent journalist Brian Krebs found himself the victim of a record-breaking digital attack when a huge amount of junk traffic (between 600-700Gbps) took his website, KrebsonSecurity.com offline. Ironically, Krebs is a digital … [Read more...] about Why Do People Perform DDoS Attacks?
An Early History of DDoS Attacks
The first DoS attack was launched in 1974 by a 13-year-old called David Dennis who attended high school across the street from the Computer-Based Education Research Laboratory (CERL) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Dennis realized he … [Read more...] about An Early History of DDoS Attacks