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Cyber Deterrence Group Urges Greater Disclosure, Transparency
A group tasked with devising strategies to deter cyber attacks is calling for mandatory public disclosure of fraud and hacking incidents by governments and organizations of all sizes, including banks....
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Digital Hit Men for Hire
Cyber attacks designed to knock Web sites off line happen every day, yet shopping for a virtual hit man to launch one of these assaults has traditionally been a dicey affair. That’s starting to change:...
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DDoS Attacks Spell ‘Gameover’ for Banks, Victims in Cyber Heists
The FBI is warning that computer crooks have begun launching debilitating cyber attacks against banks and their customers as part of a smoke screen to prevent victims from noticing simultaneous...
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Triple DDoS vs. KrebsOnSecurity
“When nobody hates you, nobody knows you’re alive.” – Diplomacy, by Chris Smither During the last week of July, a series of steadily escalating cyber attacks directed at my Web site and hosting...
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The New Normal: 200-400 Gbps DDoS Attacks
Over the past four years, KrebsOnSecurity has been targeted by countless denial-of-service attacks intended to knock it offline. Earlier this week, KrebsOnSecurity was hit by easily the most massive...
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Who’s Attacking Whom? Realtime Attack Trackers
It seems nearly every day we’re reading about Internet attacks aimed at knocking sites offline and breaking into networks, but it’s often difficult to visualize this type of activity. In this post,...
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The Internet of Dangerous Things
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks designed to silence end users and sideline Web sites grew with alarming frequency and size last year, according to new data released this week. Those...
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Self-Proclaimed ‘Nuclear Bot’ Author Weighs U.S. Job Offer
The author of a banking Trojan called Nuclear Bot — a teenager living in France — recently released the source code for his creation just months after the malware began showing up for sale in...
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Fear the Reaper, or Reaper Madness?
Last week we looked at reports from China and Israel about a new “Internet of Things” malware strain called “Reaper” that researchers said infected more than a million organizations by targeting...
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