Security researchers have identified a new cyber-threat targeting publicly exposed instances of the Docker Engine API. In this campaign, attackers exploit misconfigurations to deploy a malicious ...

Researchers at Flashpoint said Friday’s DDoS attack against DNS provider Dyn was likely the work of script kiddies and not advanced attackers.

Much like a canary in a coal mine, the rise of AI-enhanced DDoS attacks signals a shift toward more adaptive and complex cyber threats.

A dozen malicious Python packages were uploaded to the PyPi repository this weekend in a typosquatting attack that performs DDoS attacks on a Counter-Strike 1.6 server.

A Russian script kiddie using little more than publicly available malware tools and exploits targeting weak credentials and configurations has assembled a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS ...

Security company Flashpoint said the social and technical indicators of Friday's distributed denial of service attack – which took down more than 1,200 websites – reveal that it was likely ...

Flashpoint researchers blamed Oct. 21 IoT-based DDoS attack on script kiddies from hackforums, claiming a 'well-known video game company' was the target. A post on hackforums claims the target was ...

Dyn DNS DDoS attack was likely the work of 'script kiddies', not state actors, Flashpoint says While many entities have claimed responsibility for the attack, Flashpoint said their claims are ...

The massive DDoS attack that disrupted the internet address-lookup service Dyn last week was perhaps pulled off by a script kiddie targeting PlayStation Network and using Mirai malware to assemble ...