Alleged vDOS Proprietors Arrested in Israel

DDoS-for-Hire Community Strikes Back at Krebs with Record 665 Gbps DDoS Attack

http://news.softpedia.com/news/ddos...with-record-665-gbps-ddos-attack-508535.shtml

 

Massive web attack hits security blogger

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37439513

 

krebsonsecurity.com resolving to 127.0.0.1 now to reverse the attack, interesting.

 

Well, Akamai dropped their support to Kreb

https://twitter.com/briankrebs/status/779047286043185152

 

https://motherboard.vice.com/read/j...os-attack-im-kind-of-like-plutonium-right-now

 

I follow his blog for some years now and highly respect his work. It doesn't help him now but this and all other attacks in the past is proof of the huge impact he accomplishs. Any ideas how to support him ?

 

He is back online thanks to Google Project Shield

 

Same here .
This attack is clear proof that his aim is true ( not that proof were needed ) .

But I'm not fully convinced that vDOS wielded that sort of botnet power ; this attack seems to be on a much bigger scale.
.... time will tell , or maybe not

 

http://krebsonsecurity.com/ is up and running at the time of this post.

 

"How Hacked Cameras Are Helping Launch The Biggest Attacks The Internet Has Ever Seen"

Excellent Read:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasb...ed-by-largest-ddos-attacks-ever/#319131a76fb6

*Brian Krebs

 

"KrebsOnSecurity moves to Project Shield for protection against DDoS attack censorship"

http://www.networkworld.com/article...gainst-ddos-attack-censorship.html#tk.rss_all

Hopefully additional rather than totally duplicative info.

 

Hacker Releases Code That Powered Record-Breaking Botnet Attack

http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/r...de-that-powered-record-breaking-botnet-attack

 

Have hackers turned my printer into an offensive weapon?

 

https://arstechnica.com/security/20...ainst-a-crippling-iot-powered-botnet-and-won/

 

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