SSL (or TLS) secures web services such as banking, online purchases, email and remote access. Popular services such as Twitter, Hotmail and Facebook are increasingly migrating to SSL to improve security and address privacy concerns. As more transactions and services are protected by SSL, DDoS attacks on SSL secured services are on the rise and [...]
Previous blog entries and analysis by others in the security community have shined a light upon the Dirt Jumper DDoS bot. Dirt Jumper continues to evolve (version 5 appears to be the newest) and a variety of other associated bots packages have emerged over time to include Simple, September, Khan, Pandora, the Di BoTNet and [...]
This blog post is the fourth installment in our ongoing series of articles exploring the crypto systems commonly found in various DDoS malware families. Previous subjects have included Armageddon, Khan (now believed to be a very close “cousin” of Dirt Jumper version 5), and PonyDOS. Today we’ll be diving deep into the details of the [...]
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