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• Seattle cyber attacker arrested after hits on Aussie businesses

  ​A 37-year-old Seattle man has been arrested in connection with serious offences relating to distributed denial of service attacks that hit Australian businesses in 2015.

• Malware from Mirai DDoS attack continues to harass in short bursts

  It's still unclear who pulled off Friday's massive internet disruption, but the malware largely responsible for the cyber attack has since been found assaulting new targets -- possibly video gamers.

• Chinese firm recalls camera products linked to massive DDOS attack

  A Chinese electronics component maker is recalling 4.3 million internet-connected camera products from the U.S. market amid claims they may have played a role in Friday's massive internet disruption.

• How the Dyn DDoS attack unfolded

  The attacks that overwhelmed the internet-address lookup service provided by Dyn today were well coordinated and carefully plotted to take down data centers all over the globe, preventing customers from reaching more than 1,200 domains Dyn was in charge of.

• IoT malware behind record DDoS attack is now available to all hackers

  The source code for a trojan that infected hundreds of thousands of internet-of-things devices and used them to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks was published online, paving the way for more such botnets.

• Armies of hacked IoT devices launch unprecedented DDoS attacks

  The botnets made up of compromised IoT devices are now capable of launching distributed denial-of-service attacks of unprecedented scale.

• Akamai: DDoS attacks up thanks to criminal misuse of stress-test services

  Criminals are tapping Web services advertised as tools to stress test customers’ networks but using them to launch DDoS attacks against their victims, according to Akamai.

• Under DDoS attack? Look for something worse

  When businesses are hit by noticeable DDoS attacks, three-quarters of the time those attacks are accompanied by another security incident, according to Kaspersky Lab.

• DARPA: Current DDoS protection isn’t cutting it

  The DARPA program, called Extreme DDoS Defense (XD3) looks to :
  • thwart DDoS attacks by dispersing cyber assets (physically and/or logically) to complicate adversarial targeting
  • disguise the characteristics and behaviors of those assets to confuse or deceive the adversary
  • blunt the effects of attacks that succeed in penetrating other defensive measures by using adaptive mitigation techniques on endpoints such as mission‐critical servers.

• A true story of combating a large-scale DDoS attack

  Real tales of cyberattack response and recovery are hard to come by because organizations are reluctant to share details for a host of legitimate reasons, not the least of which is the potential for negative financial fallout. However, if we never tell our stories we doom others to blindly walk our path. Better to share our real-world battlefield experiences and become contributors to improved threat intelligence.

• Juniper boosts DDoS Secure appliance to mitigate UDP-based amplification attacks

  Juniper Networks has added a new way for its anti-DDoS appliance to mitigate what's known as massive UDP-based amplification attacks that typically work by exploiting compromised servers of different kinds to both spoof and vastly increase the denial-of-service barrage.

• Bloody June: What's behind last month's DDoS attacks?

  The list of DDoS attacks in the month of June has made for grim reading. High-profile sites have been targeted by extortion demands, online games got disrupted and at least one company was put out of business as a direct result.

• USENIX: Gamers use DDoS as a service to cheat -- a lot

  Cheating gamers pay as little as $10 per month to launch denial of service attacks against their opponents as a tactical advantage using commercial providers that walk the line between being legitimate businesses that stress-test their customers' networks and purveyors of DDoS as a service, researchers at USENIX Security 2013 say.

• How we can get out of the DNS DDoS trap

  A new class of enormous DDoS attacks emerged March 26 with a DNS reflection attack by email spammer CyberBunker against anti-spam service Spamhaus. The reported traffic peak of 300Gbps was double the previous record.

• Cisco-funded startup unveils breakthrough router, targets SDNs

  A Cisco-funded router startup has unveiled its first product, which the company says implements breakthrough silicon-to-photonics circuitry for scaling service provider networks and enabling them for software-defined networking (SDN).