A DDoS attack that launched 29.7 Tbps was just thwarted by Cloudflare, and its the biggest DDoS attack in history

Cloudflare intercepted traffic from a malicious botnet that sent 29.7 Tbps of traffic across the internet.
CSOonline

New DDoS malware targets Linux and Windows systems

Attackers are compromising Linux and Windows systems to install a new malware program designed for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, according to researchers from the Polish ...
Threat Post

Threat Actors Can Exploit Windows RDP Servers to Amplify DDoS Attacks

Netscout researchers identify more than 14,000 existing servers that can be abused by ‘the general attack population’ to flood organizations’ networks with traffic. Cybercriminals can exploit ...
Computerworld

Researchers blame Dyn DDoS attack on script kiddies targeting video game company

Researchers at Flashpoint pointed a finger of blame at “script kiddies” for the huge IoT-based DDoS attack that made parts of the internet inaccessible last Friday. In fact, the primary target may ...
CSOonline

‘Win-DDoS’: Researchers unveil botnet technique exploiting Windows domain controllers

SafeBreach researchers demonstrate how attackers can crash Windows domain controllers and build a botnet using unauthenticated RPC and LDAP vulnerabilities. At DEF CON 33, security researchers ...
Bleeping Computer

Windows Remote Desktop servers now used to amplify DDoS attacks

Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) servers are now being abused by DDoS-for-hire services to amplify Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. The Microsoft RDP service is a built-in Windows ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft discovers Windows/Linux botnet used in DDoS attacks

Microsoft researchers have discovered a hybrid Windows-Linux botnet that uses a highly efficient technique to take down Minecraft servers and performs distributed denial-of-service attacks on other ...