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KrebsOnSecurity Hit By Huge New IoT Botnet “Meris”

BrianKrebs | September 10, 2021 | A Little Sunshine, Akamai, Cambridge University, CloudFlare, ddos, google, Meris, MikroTik, Project Shield, Qrator, Richard Clayton, The Coming Storm, Yandex

On Thursday evening, KrebsOnSecurity was the subject of a rather massive (and mercifully brief) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The assault came from "Meris," the same new "Internet of Things" (IoT) botnet behind ...

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Powerful New DDoS Method Adds Extortion

BrianKrebs | March 2, 2018 | 0Kee Team, A Little Sunshine, Akamai, ddos, DDoS-for-hire, imperva, Matt Ploesell, memcached attack, Ofer Gayer, Qrator, security bloggers network, The Coming Storm, UDP

Attackers have seized on a relatively new method for executing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks of unprecedented disruptive power, using it to launch record-breaking DDoS assaults over the past week. Now evidence suggests ...

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