In a DoS attack, the attacker sends a flood of superfluous requests to the website’s main server, which basically overloads it and blocks out any further requests before the capacity is retained.

More Than 1 Million Bots On The Attack. ... That bandwidth can be put to many uses, including spamming and DoS attacks. "You read what these guys post on their underground boards," said Dunham, ...

On Saturday, Triplegangers CEO Oleksandr Tomchuk was alerted that his company’s e-commerce site was down. It looked to be some kind of distributed denial-of-service attack. He soon discovered ...

A new denial-of-service attack dubbed 'Loop DoS' targeting application layer protocols can pair network services into an indefinite communication loop that creates large volumes of traffic.

Meanwhile, many IRC services are still under attack. Undernet appears to be the hardest hit, with its IRC service bots down and no projected date for their return.

All three said the attack began in late August; and Google confirmed it was ongoing, according to Reuters. The biggest-ever DoS attack was enabled by HTTP/2 ...

A hacker group has released a proof-of-concept tool that exploits how encryption keys can be renegotiated to launch a distributed denial of service attack against Secure Sockets Layer servers.

Financial gain: While a DDoS attack isn’t a ransomware attack, DDoS attackers sometimes contact their victims with a promise to turn off the firehose of packets in exchange for Bitcoins.

DDoS attacks using bots have reached nearly 10GB of aggregate attack bandwidth. Individual infected hosts often don’t know they’re infected or that theyre infecting others and spreading spam ...

As Dyn absorbs more and more attacks, the scale of the situation becomes more clear. Specifically, that it's really, really big. "There’s nothing really new about [this type of DDoS attack].