Pierluigi Paganini
April 02, 2015
A security researcher discovered that the improper configuration of some multicast DNS (mDNS) implementations could be used to amplify DDoS attacks. The multicast Domain Name System, also known as mDNS,  is a multiplatform service designed to resolve host names to IP addresses within small networks that doesn’t have a local name server. The mDNS can work in a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 31, 2015
Anonymous has posted a video message threatening Israel with âthe electronic holocaustâ which would âerase it from cyberspaceâ on next April 7. Once again the group of  hacktivits Anonymous has threatened Israel with âthe electronic holocaustâ which would âerase it from cyberspace.â The massive cyber attack announced by Anonymous is planned on April 7 for âcrimes in the Palestinian territories.â […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2015
The Chinese Government is suspected for the large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that hit the popular GitHub website. The popular coding website Github suffered a large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that lasted more than 24 hours starting from Thursday night. The attack exploited the redirection of users who were connecting to many other websites on the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2015
Akamai firm discovered numerous attacks exploiting a known vulnerability in a Google Maps plugin to run Joomla Reflection DDoS attacks against enterprises. Experts from Akamai Technologies’ Prolexic Security Engineering and Response Team (PLXsert) have discovered a vulnerability allows attackers to turn Joomla servers using the Google Maps plugin into a DDoS hacking tool. The worrying aspect […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 24, 2015
Alleged Hacker belonging to the hacking crew Lizard Squad run a DNS hajacking attack against the Google Vietnam domain. A nasty surprise for Internet users who visited the Google Vietnam website that was presented with a picture of a man taking a selfie, along with a message that claimed the website site was hacked by the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2015
A new report published by Verisign provides useful data related to the recent evolution of DDoS attacks and the services that offer them. DDoS attacks are even more dangerous for every organization that exposes its resources and services on the Internet, recent attacks against Sony PSN network and XBox live service demonstrate it. DDoS attacks despite […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 27, 2015
Both social network platforms Facebook and Instagram went down on Tuesday while Lizard Squad hacking team claims responsibility for an alleged DDoS attack. A couple of the most popular social networks Facebook and Instagram went down for at least 40 minutes on Tuesday, the official motivation is a technical outage, but the popular hacking crew Lizard Squad claims to have […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2015
Database of the Lizard Stresser DDoS tool proposed by the Lizard Squad was leaked on like revealing that the group stored client’s credential in plaintext. Last week the another alleged member of the popular Lizard Squad was arrested by UK authorities, the British Police in collaboration with the FBI identified a 18-year-old boy that is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 17, 2015
SEROCU unit in a joint operation with the FBI arrested a man accused to have been involved in the DDoS attack of Sony Playstation and Xbox systems. The British Police in collaboration with the FBI has arrested a 18-year-old boy that is suspected to have participated to the DDoS attacks on the PlayStation Network and Xbox […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 10, 2015
Security expert Brian Krebs and a research team discovered that the Lizard Stresser DDoS tool relies on compromised Home Routers. Over the holidays the Lizard Squad team knocked out the networks of Sony PSN and Microsoft Xbox live service using a tool they have designed to run DDoS attacks. The tool is dubbed Lizard Stresser and according to […]
